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Answ. Refused. 



VII. The sick who are able to 

 be transported shall be embarked 

 with the division, and provided 

 with provisions, medicines, sur- 

 geons' chests, and officers of health, 

 necessary for their care during the 

 passage. Those who are not able 

 to be transported shall be treated 

 with the necessary care ; the gen- 

 eral-in-chief leavlngat Malta aphy- 

 sician and a surgeon in the service 

 of France, who shall atterid to them. 

 They shall be furnished with lodg- 

 ings gratis, if they come out of the 

 hospital, and they shall be sent to 

 France as soon as their situation will 

 permit, with all that belongs to 

 them ; and in the same manner as 

 the garrison. The generals-in- 

 chief of the sea and land forces 

 evacuating Malta intrust them to 

 the honour and humanity of the 

 English general. 



Answ. Granted. 



VIII. Every individual, of what- 

 ever nation, inhabiting the island of 

 Malta, or the others, shall neither 

 be troubled, nor disturbed, nor 

 molested, on account of their politi- 

 cal opinions, nor for any part of 

 their conduct during the time that 

 Malta has been in the power of the 

 French government. — I'his article 

 applies principally, and in its full 

 extent, to those who have taken 

 arms, or have iilled civil, adrai- 

 nistrative, or military employments. 

 They shall not l)e called to an ac- 

 count for any thing, mucli less 

 prosecuted for acts of their com- 

 mbsion. 



Answ. This article does not ap- 

 pear capable of being made the ob- 

 ject of a militaiy capitulation ; but 

 all the inhabitants who shall desire 

 to remain may be assured of being 

 treated with justice and humanity. 



and shall enjoy the full protection 

 of the laws. 



IX. The French who inhabit 

 Malta, and all the Maltese, of what- 

 ever state they may be, who wish to 

 follow the French army, and to go 

 intoFrance with their property, shall 

 be at liberty to do so. Those who 

 have moveables or immoveables, 

 which cannot be immediately sold, 

 and who may have the intention of 

 going to reside in France, shall be 

 allowed six months from the date of 

 the signing of the present cajjitula- 

 tion, to sell their landed or moveable 

 property. These proprietors shall 

 be respected. They shall act for 

 themselves, if they remain, or by 

 their authorized agent, if they fol- 

 low the division. When they shall 

 have finished their afl'airs in the 

 time agreed on, they shall be fur- 

 nished with passports to go toFrance, 

 transporting, or causing to be trans- 

 ported, the moveables which may 

 remain to them, as well as their 

 capitals in money or bills of ex- 

 change, according as it may so 

 happen. 



Answ. (xranted, in the sense of 

 the reply to the preceding article. 



X. As soon as the capitulation is 

 signed, the English general shall 

 leave entirely to the disposition of 

 the general commanding the French 

 troops, to cause a felucca to dejiart, 

 with the necessary equipage, and an 

 officer charged to carry the capitu- 

 lation to the French government. 

 The necessary safe conduct shall be 

 granted to him. 



Answ. Granted. 



XI. The articles of the caiiitu- 

 lation being signed, there shall he 

 given nj) to the iMiglis'.i general the 

 forts called dc.s Hutnhfs, which sliall 

 be occupied by an equal guard of 

 English and French troops. It shall 



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