The Virginia Gazette

We hear the latest Advices from France are, that the Parliament of the Province of Brittany, being greatly dissatisfied at the Measures of the French Court, particularly that the Duke D'Aiguillon, who for many atrocious Crimes, proved against him, had been legally condemned to lose his Head, was not only screened from Punishment, but favoured by the King, and supposed to be the secret Director of his Councils; and that the King persisted in refusing to permit the Sentence to be executed, wherefore the Parliament had passed and published an Order that all their Members (especially the Rohan Family, and the Nobility, of which the Prince de Soubise, a great Favourite of the King was the chief) should immediately leave their Employments at Court and return home, under the Penalty of the Forfeiture of their Estates.

That, in Order to counteract these Proceedings, the King had sent a new Governor, properly instructed, to Rennes, the Capital of the Province; that the Inhabitants refused to acknowledge or admit him; that the King, to enforce Obedience, had sent an Army of thirty Thousand Men; that the Army were refused Admittance into the City, and opposed by the Inhabitants, who, in the Heat of their Resentment, fired upon the Army and killed about two Hundred Men, notwithstanding which, the Soldiers, convinced that the Cause they were sent to support was unjust, declared their Readiness to fight against the Enemies of their Country, but unanimously refused to fire upon their Friends and Countrymen, and immediately disbanded.