The Virginia Gazette

Extract of a Letter from Paris, May 21.

The Inspectors of the Army are actually reviewing the Troops in their respective Departments all over the Kingdom, and are ordered to make them exercise according to the Method lately introduced; which Exercise takes up but a Third of the Time required of the old Method, and is performed with surprising Agility and Dexterity. The Commissaries appointed by this Crown and the British Court to settle such Matters as could not be adjusted by the Negociators at Aix-la-Chapelle, have not yet made any Progress in the Business: Some pretend they are stopped by a Dispute about the Prizes made on both Sides. The British Court refers, in this Case, to the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which mentions only the Prizes made after the Term stipulated for the Cessation of Hostilities; but our Court is for bringing into the Account all the Captures made before the Declaration of War between the two Crowns as many French Ships were taken by the English, under the Pretext that they had Spanish Treasure on board, or were carrying Provisions and Warlike Stores to the Port of Spain, &c.