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and each presided by one of the six, or his locum tenens,who must always he a knight profest. Equally among thissecond class, and the rest of the knights profest; all theother posts, military and civil (except the six first), shallbe in common. (3)

9. The Turks are besought to reflect, and that vastchanges have visited both them and us; and that ourOrder offers them as warm a friendship as its formerenmity; and therefore the Sultan is requested not only tobecome one of the protecting powers, hut likewise, seeingthat to him belongs the only country which supplies a shortpassage from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates—notindeed to decrease his territories, hut rather increase them,is besought to confer on himself a new dignity—perfectlyimperial—by occupyng the glorious post of the EmperorCharles V., and as he erected Malta into an independentSovereign fief in favour of the Order, so the Sultan also asto a part of Syria; we covet neither Damascus nor Jeru-salem, hut only a slip of sufficient width to form a smallMonarchy—from the sea a little south of St. Jean d’Acre,in a slanting line over the hills on the east of the lake ofGalilee to Zebdeni and thence to Anah on the Euphrates—and northward directly from Scanderoon through Aleppoto Bir.

It would he certainly a new glory to the Porte to have

(3.) The Bussian and Prussian Knights would he thus amal-gamated with us. Kor that King or Emperor with so manyOrders of their own already, will probably object to this. Saidknights would he at no expense; for they will he held to haveentered long ago.