The Virginia Gazette

An Extract of a Letter from the Hague, dated Nov. 13.

We are informed here, that great Pains are taken by certain People of both Nations, in order to re-establish a Correspondence between France and Great-Britain, which may possibly be effected upon the French King's Return to Paris. Overtures, we are told, have likewise been made, not only for reconciling the Differences between these two Powers, but those subsisting amongst the other Powers in Europe; the Substance of some of the Articles of which Overtures is as follows: First, That Bavaria should be immediately evacuated by the Austrian Troops, and taken Possession of by those of the Emperor; but that no French Troops shall set Footing therein. Secondly, That her Majesty of Hungary should provisionally acknowledge the Elector of Bavaria as Emperor. Thirdly, That a Suspension of Arms for eight Months should be agreed upon between the Emperor, France, Great Britain, Spain, her Majesty of Hungary, and his Sardinian Majesty. And Fourthly, That a proper Place should be fixed upon for holding a Congress, either in Germany or Holland, and no where else. But as the Court of France is, or seems at least, unwilling that the Emperor should quit his Pretensions to the Austrian Succession, and to leave the King of Prussia a Prey to her Majesty of Hungary, the Ministers of France have made the following Objections to the above Overtures, viz. That it would be impossible for his most Christian Majesty to oblige the Emperor to consent to these Propositions, without previously giving him Security, in Regard to his Pretensions to the Austrian Succession; and that in Respect to his Prussian Majesty, it was indispensably necessary that this Prince should be comprehended in the Suspension of Arms for eight Months, and that he should, as well for the present as for the future, be screen'd from the Resentment which her Majesty of Hungary would otherwise scarce fail of, sooner or later, shewing him. In Answer to which Objections it was said, That the late Steps taken by the King of Prussia were unjust, nay, even treacherous, and contrary to the Treaty of Breslau: That therefore her Majesty of Hungary, and her Allies, would never either consent that he should be comprehended in the Suspension of Arms, or that he should, directly or indirectly, be included in any Treaty of Accommodation which might possibly be brought about, between the House of Austria and that of Bavaria; because the King of Prussia having violated the Treaty whereby the Queen of Hungary had yielded Silesia to him, her Majesty, and her Posterity, would always have a Right of recovering that Cession, as soon as a fair Opportunity should offer itself, or as they should think convenient.