The Virginia Gazette

Extract of a letter from Florence, March 11.

The King of Prussia has sent a present of a medal of his own person to General Paoli, with an eulogium, in which he makes that General greater than all the heroes of antiquity.

When the Marquis de Marbeuf took M. Colonna prisoner with two hundred and twelve men, on the 14th of February, at Barbaggio, as a compliment to that officer he said to him that he supposed General Paoli would sustain a great loss in him; to this the brave Corsican replied that every town and every villager in his country contained men of superior courage and abilities to himself, and that M. Marbeuf would very soon be convinced of it. This loss will, however, be a great one to Paoli, who cannot afford to lose one Corsican to ten Frenchmen; yet, if those brave men are determined to remain on the defensive, they will be invincible. At present they continue to strengthen the fortifications of Bologna, as it is supposed that post will be the theatre of the ensuing campaign; and Cape Corso already, except Oletta, entirely in the hands of the Corsicans.