Latin translation please

[Maggoty]

It was on a monument in Malta and I would love to know what it means :

Magnae et Invictaf Britanniae Melitensium amor et Europaevox has Insulas Confirmat

AD1814

Thank you!!

x

[rockyracoon]

Invitcaf of Great Britain and the Melita, love and Europaevox confirms these Isles AD1814. Well that's what Google translate says, hope it helps.

[ABerrant]

"Magnae et invictae Britanniae, Melitensium amor et Europa vox has insulas confirmant" (the inscription on the Main Guard portico misspells the final word as 'confirmat')

To Great and Unconquered Britain, the Love of the Maltese and the Voice of Europe Confirms these Islands.

[Maggoty]

Thank you guys - you are the tops x

[rockyracoon]

LOL, google translator is crap.

[chimerapower]

Google translator is doing its best but hasn't reached the level of a good Latin teacher as yet!

[tearinghair]

I'd say something like 'The love of the Maltese for Great unconquered Britain (and the voice of Europe?) strenghtens these islands.'

[ABerrant]

The "Voice of Europe" is a euphemism for the Treaty of Paris 1814, a Constitutional Statute signed May 30, 1814 to end the Napoleonic Wars, and in particular reference to Article 7:

"The Island of Malta and its Dependencies shall belong in full right and Sovereignty to His Britannic Majesty."

Thus, 1814 is when Malta became part of the British Empire as a Crown Colony.