CHAPTER VI.

Early in November Ximenes’ hour was come; sohe was succeeded, on November 12th, by Rohan, 1whose perhaps most distinguished acts were, first,his having convened a chapter general in1776—a novelty to all men then alive, exceptthose who had perused our history, and who coiddnot but know it was the order’s supreme tribunal—.

1782 Secondl y> tlie formation of the Anglo-BavarianLanguage, in 1782 ; 2 though England had

nothing to do with it, but in name.—Thirdly, theorder’s most magnanimous charity during the Cala-

1783 ^ r ^ ailL eai lhquakes in 1783. 3 It may bedoubted whether it be possible for any human

pen to do anything like justice to the conduct ofthe knights on that most lamentable occasion.They, facing all the dangers of shipwreck, pesti-lence, and war, aided with money, food, clothes,bedding, the distressed Sicilians and Calabrese,much more than their own sovereigns ; and thinking

1 Boisgelin: iii. 1. s Id.: iii. 9. 3 Id.: iii. 11.