The treaty also stated that at least half of Malta's garrison had to consist of 2000 Maltese soldiers led by native officers.

However, Ball himself chose two Maltese pro-British nobles, the Marquis Paolo Parisi and Conte Luigi Maria Gatto, as the commanding officers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions respectively.

[1] The number of recruits in the Provincials severely depleted in 1805, when many men resigned to volunteer in the newly established Royal Regiment of Malta.

[1] Parisi resigned his commission in 1811, and he was succeeded by the Conte Luigi Maria Gatto, former commander of the 2nd Battalion.

[2] The Maltese Provincial Battalions were amalgamated with the Coast Artillery and the Veterans to form the Royal Malta Fencible Regiment on 16 February 1815.