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decided for the last. So in that direction Toledosailed with the greater part of the Third. 1

Yet very grave must have been Yaletta’s thoughts,when given leisure to collect them; for he saw butruins all around, and an uninhabited waste, wherea populous island had lately stood, and his orderreduced desperately. A plan occupied his intellect,and appeared the only way to put down that ter-rible despotic power; by depi’iving it of the means ofmaking a similar invasion any more. Yet the de-struction of the arsenal shall not be attempted in hislife-time! If any elfect it ever! Borgo was thenchanged into Yittoriosa, its present name. Aboutnine thousand of the victors were killed at Malta.Yet of the knights here is an abstract. In Bosio arethe names : Provence, 18; Auvergne, 4; France, 21;Italy, 50; Arragon, 14; Germany, 4; Castille, 18.

These are the victims registered in the Order’sChurch, and for whose souls anniversaries are so-lemnized. If included in the nine thousand, howsmall a fraction of it they make! But they werenot other than the superior officers of their hired andvolunteer troops, as often observed. Besides in the re-gisters are onlythe downright and immediately slain,orthose,whose mortal wounds produced death duringthe siege; and not even all of these. In no list are

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Eosio : par. iii., lib. xxxiii. 707.