The Virginia Gazette

Berlin, May 22. The Ministers of Great-Britain, France and Holland, have had several Conferences with Count de Podewils, Cabinet Counsellor, on the Subject of a general Peace; of which our Court seems to take upon itself the Direction.

The Plan intimated to the Publick is. That Flanders is to return into the Possession of the House of Austria, with some Exceptions. The Equivalent for this, a Settlement for Don Philip in the Milanese, &c. -- Cape-Breton to be restored to the English. As a Renewal of the King of Sardinia to have all the Milanese on this Side the Lake Major, and bounded below the said Lake by the Ticino to the Po, on this Side Pavia, commonly called the Novarese; and Savoy, Nice, &c. restored.---Don Philip the other Part of the Milanese, Parma, Placentia, and the Tortonese. Genoa is to have Finale established, but to hold it as a Fief. Dunkirk and Gravelines to be rendered unserviceable, and the Fortifications demolished; or an Equivalent, at the Election of the English.

Upon the whole, it does not appear that any Body is to be a Loser but the House of Austria; but then the Emperor is to be formally acknowledged by France, Spain, and Prussia; and all further Demands upon the House of Austria, by the respective Claimants, to be entirely annihilated. The King of Prussia, the Empress of Russia, and the Kings of Sweden and Denmark, Guarantees: And Great-Britain, France, and Holland, Guarantees for Silesia, &c.