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18. To prevent the least fear of its becoming a nest ofpirates, smugglers, and conspirators, strangers are to beturned out on the slightest suspicion without why orwherefore. And a stern trial in case of natives ; nor shallthese he tried for any minor offence ; but for high treason,by putting their country in danger of losing its Charter,which is this.

14. To face the immense expenses of such a restorationthere are, 1st. The actual possessions of the Order, which,however small, are far greater than at the downfalls ofJerusalem, Acre, Rhodes, Malta. As we rose from thethree first, why not as well from the last ? Harder thenthan now! 2nd. The passage money of £300 each newknight, which may be calculated at a great sum, and the16 per cent, on the jus patronatus, Commanderies, pre-sents, and sundry other items. But if all these heinsufficient at the beginning, when so many houses are tobe erected, the huge cost of steamers and of an armyhowever small, when paid so generously and splendidly tohave choice soldiers, and the military educated on a mag-nificent scale, and roads and conveyances of all sorts, andso many other unforeseen expenses; then a little loan mustbe contracted and guaranteed to be paid off in a givennumber of years, as it will certainly soon be, by the in-crease of the country’s revenue. The knights were alwayscapital financiers as even Malta proves, which they receiveda poor naked rock and left it an island of palaces.' (6)

(6) And it were bare justice ; for this restoration, as much forthe future as the present, why should not generations to comepay their part as well as ourselves ?