The Virginia Gazette

From the Utrecht Gazette. London, April 27.

The last Dispatches the Government receiv'd from Barbados from Mr. Greenville and Commodore Holbourn, import, that an English and a French Man of War having sail'd to the four Neutral Islands, and caused the French Court's Orders to be read there for evacuating them, the Inhabitants refused to obey it and quit their Dwellings, alledging that they had been too long in Possession, and that they had been at too much Labour and Expence to abandon thus their old Habitations. Several Conferences have been held on this Occasion, and a Courier was dispatch'd to Paris the 22d Instant; with Orders for the Earl of Albemarle to make Representations to the French Ministry, and to insist on the French King's dispatching Orders to the Governors of the Caribbee Islands to second the English Men of War, and force the Inhabitants of the said Islands to quit Possession; because his Majesty does not consider them as Subjects of his Most Christian Majesty, but rather as Banditti and Rebels, and that he will dispatch Orders in Consequence. to his Men of War in those Parts. The Earl of Albemarle is order'd to subjoin; That as the King has punctually perform'd his Part of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, his Majesty does not doubt but the Most Christian King, actuated by the same upright Principle is ready to concur in the necessary Measures for procuring the Evacuations in Question.---