The Virginia Gazette

Genoa, Nov. 12: The sending a Body of French Troops into Corsica, far from throwing the Male-contents into a Consternation, causes them to rejoice, and they even wait their Arrival with a kind of Impatience.

The Commissary found that those Islanders have very just Ideas of the King of France's Greatness of Soul and natural Equity; they seem disposed to submit to whatever his Most Christian Majesty shall think fit to order; they are persuaded that when he comes to be informed of the Cause of their revolting, he will employ his Authority for obtaining them Justice, and that in the mean Time he will protect and screen them from that Resentment, which the Republick cannot dispense with herself from entertaining against rebellious Subjects. We expect here that some Security must be given them by Way of Preliminary, otherwise it is to be feared they will not be found so tractable and ready to return to the Obedience due to their lawful Sovereigns; violent Means will not be made use of except in Case of Extremity; for should Recourse be had to such Means at first setting out, they would without doubt retire to the Mountains, where there is no Possibility of attacking them without vast Trouble, and sacrificing a great many Men, with little Certainty of Success.