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whatever pretenfions they might have to 
the ifland, by an aét much more conclu- 
five than that of conqueft, by the moft 
unworthy treafon to their own body, vio- 
lating the facred laws of religion, honor, 
and the ftatutes of the Order, which they 
folemnly fwore at the altar to maintain 
with the laft drop of their blood: by this 
a&, according to their own laws, they 
ceafe to be members of the Order, are de- 
graded with infamy, and the found part 
of them (if fuch there were among them) 
are obligated to put them to death.— 
*¢ Convinced of their own political weak- 
nefs, and placing a full reliance in the 
fincerity of the Britifh Government, and 
in the faith of the Britifh nation, the Mal- 
tefe were more defirous of becoming fub- 
jects of the King of Great Britain, and 
of enjoying all the advantages of free 
fubjects of a monarch who is the father 
of his people, than to affert and maintain 
their own entire independence: but never 
did they fufpect, nor can they now fora 
moment believe that, violating all the 
Jaws of juftice, divine and human, they 
are to be forcibly delivered up by their 
auxiliary allics as a conquered people, or 
as vile flaves fold for a political confidera- 
tion to other matters, to mafters whofe 
tyranny, extortion, and facrilege, bave 
rendered them the execration of every 
wirtuous mind, and to whom, whatever 
Lorrible calamity may enfue, they never 
avill fubmit.’ Notwithitanding this re- 
monttrance, Malta, by the treaty of 
Amiens was to have been delivered up to 
the Knights of St. John, ‘every one of 
whom has betrayed his own order:”” ** no 
one is ignorant (fay the Deputies in their 
memorial to Lord Hobart) that the plan 
of the invafion of Malta was projected 
22 Paris, and confined ta the principal 
Knights of the Order refident at Malta.” 
Minifters replied to the Deputation very 
laconically, that they would do well to 
procure their departure from London as 
{oon as poffible ; adducing for reafon, that 
their remaining would give jealouly to 
France, and thereby impede the conclu- 
fion of the definitive articles of peace. 
“Travels in Italy, by the late ABBE 
BarRTHELEMY, Author of the Travels 
of Anacharjis the Younger ; in @ Series 
of Letters written to the celebrated Count 
Caylus. With an Appendix, containing 
feveral Pieces, never before publifbed, by 
the Abbe Winkelman, Father Facquier, 
the Abbé Zarillo, and other learned Men. 
Tranflated from the French.” 
Thefe letters were begun in Auguft, 
a75<, and are concluded in April, 1757; 
Montuty Mac. No. 103. 
they are written in the moft familiar ftyle, 
generally on fubjeéts of tafte and anti-, 
quity. The appendix occupies a confi- 
derable part of this volume, and it may 
be faid to be more interefting than the 
body of the work itfelf, as its accounts 
are more full and fatisfactory. The two 
firft numbers contain the account of the 
Abbé’s excurfion ; viz. the appointment 
of his patron, M. Stainville, as ambafla- 
dor to the Pope, in whofe fuite M. Bar- 
thelemy travelled. They alfo contain 
fome of the earlier circumftances of the 
journey, before the letters commence. The 
third number, containing an account 
of the different modes of minufa@urin 
and employing glafs, is a valuable col~ 
Jeétion of what ancient authors have ob- 
ferved on that curious fubject. The fourth 
number is on Herculaneum, and com~ 
prizes fome remarks, by Count Cayilusy 
fuppofed to be new. The fifth number 
contains the literary life of Mazzochis 
and the fixth gives an account of Barthes 
lemy's interview with Biardi. The tee 
venth is a very curious nu nber on the fae 
brication of antiques. The eighth con~ 
fifts of a letter from Count Rezzonico to 
Count Caylus, dated 1756, and contains 
the plan of a learned and elaborate difqui- 
fition upon the country, the writings, and 
the editors of Pliny the Elder and Pliny 
the Younger. The ninth number contiins 
the Abbé Barthelemy’s celebrated differs 
tation on the antiquities of Rome, from 
the memoirs of the Academy o° Infcrip~ 
tions. The tenth relates to the meafure 
of the Colifeum, by P. Jicquier, the 
commentator on Newton. ‘The eleventh 
is on the original idea which fuggelted 
the plan of the Travels of Anacharfis, 
To which is fubjoined the Supplement te 
the Memoirs of Barthelemy. 
<¢ Fournals of Travels in Parts of the 
late Auftrian Low Countries, France, the 
Pays de Vaud, and Tufcany, in the Years 
1787 and 17389, by LOCKHART MutRe 
HEAD,A.M. Librarian to the University 
of Glafzow.” 
Notwithftanding the numerous books 
of travels through the fame countries, 
which Mr. Muirhead paffed, which have 
appeared fince his excurfion took places 
we are much interefled with the novelty 
as well as excellence of his remarks on 
men and manners, on perfons, and on 
places. Whenever Mr. Muirhead intro- 
duces his own fentiments and refleftions 
it is impoffible not to acknowledge the 
benevolence and good fenfe which pro~ 
duced them. Natural hiftory and botany, 
excited a good deal of his attention, and 
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