The Virginia Gazette

PHILADELPHIA. March 16.

By the brig Anne and Catherine, Capt. James Cooper, from Leghorn, but last from the island of Sardinia, we have the following advices, viz. That during his stay in Leghorn, the Corsicans and the French had five engagements, in all which the Corsicans had gained the victory, that they had killed and taken prisoners ten or twelve hundred, among which was a French General. It was generally thought and expected there, that the Corsicans would entirely rout the French out of the island this winter. Mr. Henry Bambridge of this city had been sent by Sir John Dick, the English Consul at Leghorn, to Corsica, to take Paoli's portrait, which he had accordingly done, and it was sent for England before Capt. Cooper sailed from Leghorn, for which he was presented with 100 sequins. It is said at Leghorn, that an English frigate was certainly arrived at Porto Ferrajo, with a present for General Paoli from the Court Ladies, who had drank his health. An account also arrived, that a free exportation of corn was allowed out of Sardinia and Sicily to France, Spain and Portugal, and that they had the appearance of very fine crops there as well as throughout all Italy.