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APPENDIX.

cross from any royal hands already, is recognized asalready member of this class ; but after the date of suchproclamation similar distinctions can be conferred by nonebut the Grand Master, or his deputy, -with the legalformalities. (1)

7. This class, with the representatives of the land, is toform a sort of House of Commons. But the Order neverhaving been nor caring to degenerate into a speakingsociety, they are neither to speak, vote, or even meet; butto be merely and individually consultive—and each of themseparately when, where, and if they like, transmit theirwritten opinions to the senate. (2)

8. Every power can become protecting by simply per-mitting its subjects to enter the Order and found Com-mendaries or those calledy'ws patronatus —and paying now16 per cent., and devolving entirely to the Order, whenthe line for whom the foundation was made falls extinct.

What is to, merit restoration, and which only the Orderby its permanent and military residence can do, and is toundertake, is to render the passage by the Euphrates toIndia and towards Mecca safe and excellent for the subjectsof all the protecting powers—quite gratis as to protectionand escort.—There shall be no more the division ofLanguages; and there shall be only two tables, quite equal

(1) This is no windy crotchet, but the matured proposal of adignitary of the Order itself, and quite conformable to the actualstate of things and the unsettled condition of a crowd of youthsin every country.

(2.) If this be a poor House of Co mm ons, is it not better thannone ? Look at Syria, and woidd it not better its condition ?