The New Hampshire Gazette

Ancona, of which the French have lately taken possession, and which, by the armistice lately concluded by the Pope, they are to retain until the end of the war, will prove an important acquisition; as the cruisers they will be enabled to fit out from that port, will probably make rich captures, and greatly distress the British Levant trade. Ancona is a very ancient town of Italy on the gulf of Venice. As commerce has rapidly increased of late years, Pope Clement XII. having made it a free port and built a mole, on the ruins of the ancient one of the Emperor Trajan. Now this stands his triumphant arch, next to the Maison Carree of Nimes, the most entire monument of Roman magnificence at present in existence.

Leghorn however will prove a far more important acquisition, as the exclusion of their enemies from that port must be a great blow to them. The British will now be confined to Gibraltar and the ports of Corsica.

Leghorn was a free port, and merchandise brought there was never inspected, the officers of the city taking great care that the trade of the city may meet with no interruption. There is hardly a finer harbor in the Mediterranean. It is 145 miles N. W. of Rome.
A clause in the treaty with the Pope stipulates, that 500 manuscripts shall be delivered up. As these are to be chosen by the French themselves, there can be little doubt but the most rare and valuable will be selected. This circumstance will probably occasion not a little speculation, and expectation will be on the tiptoe after some wonderful disclosure. It is well known that an immense number of manuscripts have been collected and deposited in the Vatican from Arragon and various parts of Italy and Greece at different periods. Nothing very interesting to the literary world has ever been divulged. Now that they are likely to pass into the hands of a more inquisitive people, we may possibly be treated with many precious disclosures.