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APPENDIX.

17. The hired troops shall, be paid with the utmostgenerosity, to have them all picked men; and as to theCommander-in-Chief, and Generals, and Admirals, ifrecommended warmly by France, England, Austria,Prussia, and Russia, they shall have carte blanche for theirpay and outfit.

18. The free knights even when embodied in the abovecorps, shall never receive pay or more than forage, board,and lodging; but must find their own horses, tents, dress,equipments.

19. This offer (though this paper by aKnight Commanderof that very second class, to wit without profession, is un-doubtedly a prima facie evidence that it will be accepted)must be made to the whole Order and ratified by it or re-fused. The honour of the idea of this reform, and nowproposing it on his own individual responsibility, appearsto the writer quite too dear and unique a distinction not toappropriate it entirely to himself, as he does in the most totalsense by signing it with his name, John Taaffe (8)

20. Italian, as most universally known in the Levant, isto be its diplomatic language.

21. If Normandy be a part of France now, yet it wasbeing held in fief by England, when the Norman on theEnglish throne was a near relation of the Order’s founder ;so perhaps France and England should take the lead inthis restoration with a brotherly feeling.

(8) In every other sense he cannot but lose by it, as he is fullyaware; for what he now shares with a few of the most select inEurope would he rendered less rare and exclusive, almost quitecommon.

FINALE.