Excerpt from Journal of the Forces Which Sailed From the Downs, in April 1800, on a Secret Expedition Under the Command of Lieut.-Gen. Pigot, Till Their Arrival in Minorca: And Continued Through All the Subsequent Transactions of the Army Under the Command of the Right Hon. General Sir Ralph Abercromby, K. B. In the Mediterranean and Egypt Till the present war, Malta had long remained an Object of small consideration. The singularity of its constitution and government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.