The Virginia Gazette

A Letter from Leghorn, dated April 12.

"A Foreign Ship having several Pieces of Cannon and a large Quantity of Ammunition on board, for the Service of the Corsicans, has provisionally landed her Cargo here, waiting for new Orders from Lord Theodore, by whom she was freighted. We hear from Bastia, that the Corsican Deputies who had been there in Conference with the French General, the Count de Boissieux, were returned back to their Camp, for more ample Instructions relating to the Accommodation he is endeavouring to make between the Republick of Genoa, and the Malecontents of Corsica. But the last Letters from thence say, that those Deputies declared to the Count, that the Corsicans were determined never to submit to the Republick, unless his Most Christian Majesty would leave a Body of French Troops in Corsica FOREVER, sufficient to protect their Equality from future Attempts and Breach of Faith of the Genoese."

-- Now the Mask begins to be lifted a little, and in a few Weeks more we need not doubt of seeing it quite taken off. Our Mediterranean and Levant Trades bid fair, at this Rate, to be in a hopeful Condition next Year! But it is to be supposed our timely Endeavours will not be wanting to ward off this Blow before it comes too home upon us.