Milord,’ Londres le May, .t ‘ARTICLE X* du Traité d’Amiens, qui determine la nouvelle Organisation de l’Ordre de Malthe, ayant prescrit differentes Mesures, a l’Execution des quelles doivent concourir les Deux Principales Puissances Contractantes, le Premier Consul a nommé le Général Vial, Ministre Plenipotentiaire près l’Ordre et l’Isle de Malthe, pour se concerter avec la Personne que Sa Majesté Britannique nommera à cet Effet, sur l’Execution des Arrangemens convenus dans le. dernier Traité.Le General Vial se rendra à sa Destination, aussitot que votre Excellence m’aura fait connoitre le Choix et les Intentions de Sa Majesté.J’ai l’Honneur d’être, avec la Consideration la plus distinguée,Milord,de Votre Excellence, &c.(Signé) OTTO. Son Excellence Milord Hawkesbury, Ministre et Secretaire d’Etat, &c. &c. &c. Translation*Translation.My Lord, London, May , ,’T'HE th Article of the Treaty of Amiens, which fixes the new Organization of the Order of Malta, having prescribed various Measures, to the Execution of which it is necessary that the Two principal Contracting Powers should concur, the First Consul has named General Vial as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Order and Island of Malta, for the Purpose of concerting with the Person whom His Britannick Majesty mail appoint for that Purpose, respecting the Execution of the Arrangements agreed upon in the late Treaty. General Vial will set out on his Destination as soon as vour Excellency shall have informed me of His Majesty’s Intentions, and of the Choice he may make.I have the Honor to be, &c.OTTO.No. .Sir, w Downing Street, May , .IN Answer to your Letter of Yesterday, in which you communicate to me the Nomination, by the First Consul, of General Vial to be Minister Plenipotentiary of the French Republick, to the Orc’er of Saint John of Jerusalem; I have the Honor to inform you that the King has been pleased to apExtract of a Dispatch from Lord St. Helens to Lord Hawkesbury, dated Petersburgh, May , .T HAVE Reason to hope that the First Impressions that had been produced here by certain Part of the Arrangement relative to Malta, have been removed; and ‘that His Imperial Majesty may even be ultimately induced to guarranty the Whole of that Arrangement; provided that the Steps which have been taken towards the Election of a new Grand Master, according to the Mode suggested by this Court, be considered as fulfilling what is required on that Head by the latter Part of the Paragraph of the Tenth Article of the Treaty of Amiens; and consequently that no new Election for that Office is to take place in the Manner pointed out by the former Part of the fame Stipulation.No. .Sir, Downing Street, June , .T INFORMED you in my Dispatch No. , thatM. Otto had made an official Communication to me, that General Vial was appointed by the First; Consul Minister Plenipotentiary to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Sir Alexander Ball has been in consequence invested with the same Character by His Majesty. He will proceed immediately toMalta,Malta, and he will receive Instructions to concert with General Vial the best Means of carrying into complete Esfect the Stipulations contained in the ioth Article of the Definitive Treaty. By the Paragraph marked No. i. in that Article, it is stipulated:”The Knights of the Order, whose Langues shall “continue to subsist after the Exchange of the Ra”tifications of the present Treaty, are invited to “return to Malta as soon as that Exchange shall “have taken place: They shall there form a Ge”neral Chapter, and shall proceed to the Election “of a Grand Master, to be chosen from amongst “the Natives of those Nations which preserve “Langues, if no such Election shall have been “already made since the Exchange of the Ratisi”cations of the Preliminary Articles of Peace.”The Object of this Paragraph was, that in the Event of an Election having taken place
