The Virginia Gazette

The loss of the English forts on the Mississippi river, will, in all probability, be followed by that of the neighbouring settlements at Mobile and Pensacola, the establishment of which has cost so much money and trouble to Great Britain, and gratify the jealousy the Court of Spain has entertained, ever since the last war, of driving the English out of every settlement in the gulph of Mexico. The revolted Americans will, however, receive more advantage from this circumstance, as things now stand, than any other people.
Strong detachments of troops have been ever since the breaking out of the American war, sent up the Mississippi by England, who landing on the eastern shore of the river, have made inroads and predatory incursions on the back settlements of Georgia, and the Carolinas, and fomented disaffection to Congress among the Indians and Scotch planters in those parts, in such a manner as to oblige Congress to station large bodies of troops on these frontiers, by which means their army on the coast has been considerably weakened.

It is strange, that our Ministry did not prevent the Spaniards from making this attempt, as we find that so early as July last, the schooner Roebuck was dispatched from Pensacola to England, where she arrived after a short passage, with an express to Lord George Germaine, advising, the intention of Spain against the Mississippi. A Gentleman who came passenger in this schooner, is now here, from whom we had the above particulars.