The Virginia Gazette

Paris, Aug. 20. It is whisper'd in our Coffee-Houses, and some make no scruple to talk openly of the Destination of the Fleet Squadron, which was little thought of: M. du Perrier, say they, when he comes off Lisbon, is to make directly for the Azores, where he is to open his Orders, and join fifteen Ships ready built at Canada, whom he is to man with his Complements, which, for that Reason, have been doubled: From thence he is to sail to the Coast of Coromandel, and there establish a decisive Superiority of Military Strength, such as, upon a Rupture with the English, will carry all the Settlements of that Nation before them: Had the Confirmation of Mr. Dupleix's glorious Success come before, these Speculators say, he would have been otherwise employ'd; for that the English, without his additional Reinforcements, would be demolished before they knew where they were.