STATE PAPERS. 
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dependence of the islands of Malta, 
Gozo, and Comino, and of the other 
arrangements of that article. 
No. 33. 
Extratt of a Dispatch from Sir John 
Borlase Warren to Lord Hawkes- 
bury, dated St. Petersburgh, Nov. 
18, 1802. 
On the 3d instant, I waited upon 
the chancellor with general Hedou- 
yille, when the note of invitation for 
his imperial majesty’s guarantee of 
the tenth article of the treaty of 
Amiens was presented by each of 
us. 
General de Hedouvyille entered 
into various reasons to induce the 
Russian government to grant the 
guarantee ; the principal of which 
_ was to prove, that, without the gua- 
rantee of Russia, "either of the two 
powers, upon the first diflerence be- 
tween them, would look upon 
themselves at liberty to seize upon 
the island, which was only impor- 
‘tant in a ‘military point of view ; 
and the only alteration he should 
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island might be delivered up to the 
Neapolitan troops.—He added, that 
the act of guarantee would not be 
considered as affecting the arrange- 
| ment of any particular power with 
_the order, or of any alteration that 
power might wish to make in the 
aillages, or that part belonging to 
elf, as Spain had already done. 
No. 34. 
® atract of a Dispatch from Sir John 
Borlase Warren to Lord Hawkes- 
BD bury ‘y, dated St. Petersburgh, Nov. 
25, 1802. 
) The chancellor appointed yester- 
y evening for delivering to me, 
and to the French minister, the an- 
Swer of the Russian government to 
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make in his invitation was, that the 
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his majesty’s invitation for his im- 
perial majesty’s accession to the 
tenth article of the treaty of 
Amiens. 
Inclosure referred to in No. 34. 
Conditions upon which his im- 
perial majesty of all the 
Russias is willing to accede 
to the stipulations of the 
10th article of the treaty of 
Amiens. 
I. The acknowledgment of the so- 
vereignty of the order of St. John of 
J erusalemover theisland of Maltaand 
its dependencies ; the acknowledg- 
ment of the grand master, and of 
the civil government of the order, 
according to its ancient institutions, 
with the admission into it of native 
Maltese. Upon this point, as well 
as upon every other that may relate 
to its interior organization, the legal 
government of the order shall have 
the power to enaét and prescribe 
such regulations as it may judge hest 
calculated to promote the future 
welfare and prosperity of the order. 
Il. The rights of the king of the 
Two Sicilies, as suzerain of the 
island, shall remain upon the same 
footing as they were previous to the 
war which is now terminated by the 
treaty of Amiens. 
Lil. The independence and neu- 
trality of the island of Malta, its 
ports and dependencies, shall be se- 
cured and guaranteed by the re- 
spective contracting powers, who 
shall mutually engage to acknow- 
ledge and maintain that neutrality 
in all cases of war; whether be- 
tween cach other, or between any 
of them, and any other power, not 
excepting his Sicilian majesty, whose 
right of suzerainty shall not extend 
so as to cnable him to cause a de- 
parture from the neutrality of the 
island, 
