Some slaves also worked as merchants and at times were allowed to sell their wares in the streets and squares of Valletta.

Mustafa was placed under house arrest on the insistence of France due to the Franco-Ottoman alliance and was eventually freed.

The day was the feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Maltese: L-Imnarja), and a banquet was to be celebrated at the Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta.

The Ottoman Beys of Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers were to send a fleet which was to invade Malta upon receiving a signal from the rebels.

The shop owner, Giuseppe Cohen, who was a former Jew who had converted to Catholicism, overheard them mention the revolt and reported this information to the Grand Master.

One hundred and twenty-five others were hanged in Palace Square in Valletta,[6] while eight were branded with the letter R (for ribelli, 'rebels') on their forehead, and were condemned to the galleys for life.

This caused it to be banned in Malta, and de Soldanis had to go to Rome to defend himself in front of Pope Benedict XIV.