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Instructions for the liberty of the press have been most welcome; moral rather than legal checks on the government are still favoured; Malta will still be a crown colony, but an elected council to advise on legislative subjects will be proposed; the number of sinecurists is almost beyond belief; most reports have been posted; an article in the Edinburgh Review on workhouses in Ireland.

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Cabanis's book on the connexion of body and mind; discussion on Irish poor law in Blackwood's Magazine. Incomplete.

The extreme mischievousness of keeping up large fighting establishments; nothing can be less prosperous than the French settlement about Algiers; the flattery of 'our youthful Queen' is most nauseating, and it must inevitably corrupt her.

Family health; Capt. Hume's outrageous conduct; early English government of Malta was most disgraceful; writer does not understand the government's conduct about the liberty of the press; George Villiers has public spirit; for the radicals must decide if they are to support the Whigs; articles in reviews, including one on Irish poor laws.

Disease in the Mediterranean and quarantine; the Reform bill has given political power to a larger portion of the aristocracy; high church men will yield to nothing but force; an article on the formation of opinions by authority; returning to England.

Appeasing Austria is no reason for not introducing a free press into Malta; objections to the present conduct of England towards Malta; the Queen will adopt the narrow and selfish prejudices of her order; cholera.

Writer is satisfied that his paper on the Irish Poor Law should be published; the anonymous pamphlet, probably written by Whately, is detestable; he tries to prove that no poor law can be administered in Ireland; a good system would be better than Whiteboyism and fear of starvation; the workhouse must be the gate to emigration; Mr Nicholls is better calculated to make a poor law for Ireland than Whately; priests contract a habit of intellectual dishonesty; the King may have interfered with the liberty of the press in Malta; the Commission wish to be recalled unless the Colonial Office are likely to grant political changes; the Commission has excited expectations; a legislative council and municipal bodies will be recommended; moral, but no legal, checks on the conduct of the local government will be proposed; having been subject to military despotism for 300 years, the people are childlike; granted certain conditions Malta might be governed with an old broomstick; with a free press, illegal assemblies could be put down; economic prospects are bleak; reckless habits of breeding might necessitate emigration; the hot weather; cholera.

Italian objections to the freedom of the press in Malta are carefully considered and dismissed; the real objection is to the increase of English influence in the Mediterranean due to her liberal policy; there are only about three Italian exiles in Malta; the Maltese are full of strong national predjudices and are religious even to superstition, so they would not allow foreigners to meddle with their politics; the great difficulty is ignorance, which can only be removed by a free press and education.

A notion prevails, due to the residence of the Prince of Capua there, that Malta is a gathering place for revolutionaries; this may indispose the English government from making necessary changes; recipient is asked to make it known that the Prince should reside in a British possession other than Malta and the Ionian isles.

Plans for returning to England; a strong blow would convert the Government's totter into a fall; the difficulty of forming a Tory government; Lord Brougham is a wasp who inflicts no deep wounds; Lord Glenelg is very popular in Malta, but not in Canada; Ranke's book is an antidote to religious bigotry.

Lord John Russell's speech on Irish poor law; the publication of writer's work on this and the Irish church question; he thinks that the right to relief should be bound on a local settlement; the progress of the enquiry and its various sections; writer does not wish to spend the next four or five years in Dublin.

Illnesses in England and Malta; various pamphlets, including one by Sydney Smith and one by the Government, are discussed; Peel's speech at Glasgow which dealt with the established church; the progress of the Commission and its report on the liberty of the press.

The few remains of the 'roast beef God save the King feeling' in writer have been eradicated by seeing what the English have been in a weak colony; colonies have some chance of being heard since the Reform bill; Malta is a suitable residence for an invalid; government establishment is overdone, yet it is inefficient; Nicholls agrees with writer on Irish poor laws; writer rejoices at the repugnance of the Maltese to workhouses.

Sir John Stoddart and Lord Brougham compared; opinions on Stoddart and the chief secretary will be expressed in the Commission's report; if the import duty on corn were removed, wages would instantly be lowered to the starvation point. (Enclosed were queries on the state of the poor, together with an explanatory letter.).

Whitmore's character of the Maltese is exaggerated on the unfavourable side; the true defect of the upper classes is ignorance and narrow mindedness; the opposition of the clergy to a free press has been overcome; trade with Italy and Spain; the ultimate triumph of the Radicals is certain, but they should compromise with the Whigs, who could be induced to side with the people against the aristocracy, postponing their permanent interests to their temporary resentment.

The Commission were welcomed in Malta as they were expected to establish immediately a freedom of the press; the Neapolitan consul is regarded as the chief obstacle to this freedom; Chief Justice Stoddart's speech in court was in pretty much the same tone of an article in the Times or any other blackguard newspaper; Mitrovich and his friends attach no weight to Stoddart's effusions; a separate report is needed on the question of the press; it is almost impossible to have confidential communication with anybody in Malta.

The Journey to Malta; Austin's various merits; a British man of war is an admirable work of human ingenuity; leading personalities; the Maltese could do more for themselves than the Government can.

Calvert's ubiquity; the impending departure for Malta; an audience of the King.

Preparations for going to Malta; the true sources of the Maltese grievances are the exclusion of the upper classes from high office and the poverty of the lower classes; the difficulty of colonizing places outside the British empire; the Government's awkward position with respect to Irish poor law; Chadwick's dull performance on the Poor Laws in the Edinburgh Review.