British Protectorate of Malta | |||||||||
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1800–1813 | |||||||||
Anthem: God Save the King | |||||||||
![]() Map of Malta and Sicily, 1808 | |||||||||
Status | Protectorate of the United Kingdom | ||||||||
Capital | Valletta | ||||||||
Common languages | |||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
Government | Protectorate | ||||||||
Monarch | |||||||||
• 1800–13 | George III | ||||||||
Civil Commissioner | |||||||||
• 1799–1801 | Alexander Ball | ||||||||
• 1801 | Henry Pigot | ||||||||
• 1801–02 | Charles Cameron | ||||||||
• 1802–09 | Alexander Ball | ||||||||
• 1810–13 | Hildebrand Oakes | ||||||||
Historical era | Napoleonic Wars | ||||||||
4 September 1800 | |||||||||
• Declaration of Rights | June 1802 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 23 July 1813 | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1807[1] | 93,054 | ||||||||
Currency | Maltese scudo | ||||||||
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Malta Protectorate (Italian: Protettorato di Malta, Maltese: Protettorat ta' Malta) was the political term for Malta when it was a British protectorate. The protectorate existed between the capitulation of the French forces in Malta in 1800 and the transformation of the islands to the Crown Colony of Malta in 1813.