Turkey, Greece and Malta, Volume 1Saunders and Otley, 1837 - Greece |
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Page 168 - NATION.—Charged by his Majesty, the King of Great Britain, to conduct all the affairs (except the military) of these islands of Malta and Gozo, with the title of his Majesty's Civil Commissioner, I Embrace, with the highest satisfaction, this opportunity of assuring you of the paternal care and affection of the King towards you ; and that HIS MAJESTY GRANTS YOU FULL PROTECTION, AND THE ENJOYMENT OF ALL YOUR DEAREST RIGHTS. He will p.
Page 123 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shall not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go; farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go; and quickly, too.
Page 439 - ... therefore, that government will support Lord Ponsonby's vigorous conduct. The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, has the honour to acquaint his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs, for the information of the Sublime Porte, that his Excellency, Akif Effendi, having violated the rights of a British subject — rights conferred by the Sultans of glorious memory, and most particularly respected by the illustrious Sovereign now reigning, for...
Page 158 - ... to be governed by their ancient laws, conformably to the spirit of the British constitution, he adopted the detested code of Rohan, which had already destroyed some of their privileges, and which code is in force in the island to this day. In 1813, Sir Thomas Maitland arrived in Malta as governor, when the last deadly blow was given to the remaining national institutions of the Maltese. Their magistrates, under the name of Giurati, formed a highly respectable board, which had existed for many...
Page 132 - Dressed in a garb of notoriety, a red skull-cap, large eastern trowsers, and mottled boots, not even condescending to put on a Christian garb to inspect the garrison turned out for his amusement, he went the length of his tether, even that of a prince. He made his own works in the public library a curiosity by marginal-noting them from end to end in elucidation of many parts relating to England, which he averred, by way of excusing himself, were badly translated. Not content with his own acquirements,...
Page 131 - Corfu ; to and from Alexandria ; weekly communication with France and Italy, annihilates the distance. You travel in all countries by their means ; you gain information and amusement through them. The panorama is ever shifting." Here Mr. Slade encountered the celebrated Prince Puckler Muskau," After a tour through the regencies of Tunis and Algiers, in which he crossed mountains the French stopped at, discovered ruins superior to the Athenian remains, and experienced a reception from every Bey never...
Page 439 - ... the Sultans of glorious memory, and most particularly respected by the illustrious Sovereign now reigning, for the happiness of his subjects — the undersigned is obliged to declare to the Sublime Porte that the undersigned will not any longer hold official communication with his Excellency, Akif Effendi ; and the undersigned respectfully submits to the Sublime Porte, and emphatically to the Sultan himself, his just complaint against the Minister who has dared to violate the laws of his own...
Page 438 - ... opinion have been strengthened in the mind of that minister, on perceiving the French government refuse the just demands of that illustrious ally, who, by his fidelity to his Britannic majesty, has deserved, on the part of the king, that his interests should be as dear to him as his own. The undersigned has the honour to acquaint his excellency the minister for foreign affairs, that he this morning applied to his excellency M. de Champagny for his passports. At the same time, he requests him...
Page 116 - Slade, vol. i, p. 116) is the prominent feature at Malta. * * * Why population should often increase inversely as a country, owing to sterility, or to its social condition, furnishes subsistence, I leave to political economists to explain ; but such is the fact. Is it owing to the recklessness caused by having nothing to hope \ Is it that a community of suffering is negative enjoyment 1 From whatever cause arising, human density, and consequently human suffering, at Malta, visibly increases.