Royal regiment of Malta. Landing at Diamante, and capture of the island of Capri by the French.

Abstract

[Excerpt] To the Editor of the United Service Journal. Mr. EDITOR, In your journal of October last, you were kind enough to insert an article respecting the formation of military corps in Malta; since your Number was published, the United Service Gazette, of the 21st of November and 16th Jan. last, has contained attacks against the Maltese corps generally, and these attacks are made in such a way as to oblige me to express my wonder, that the author dict not think it necessary to acknowledge his offspring. He ought to have considered, in the first place, that it can never be correct to charge masses with cowardice ; in all nations there are some who are constitutionally brave, and others who are not exactly so; but this worthy; who terms himself Sentinel, appears to conceive that because 800 newly-raised men were subdued, and obliged to surrender to a body of veterans more than four times their number, they must be accused either of cowardice or treachery.