The Pennsylvania Journal, Or, Weekly Advertiser

WILLIAMS BURG, (Virginia,) June 28.

By a gentleman from Bermuda, who left that island the 15th instant, we learn that advices had been received from Martinico, just before he sailed, that great preparations were making there for some important expedition, which no one doubted was against the British West-Indies; and the gentleman says, he shall not be at all surprised to hear that the chief part of the islands are in the possession of France in a very few weeks. That the men of property in the islands have been for some time shipping off their valuable effects to England, and ordering insurances to be made on their estates; and that the price of provisions has risen to an enormous height, corn selling at 18 s. per bushel, pork at four half-joes the barrel, butter at 5 s. a pound, and flour fetches any price that is asked.