The Newport Gazette

The greatest Outline of the intended Operations is said to be this: — If France does not absolutely relinquish her present treacherous conduct, which gives her all the advantages of a war, without any of the dangers and losses, to declare war against her; to send fifty thousand foreign troops to America, which are actually agreed for: to call home the frigates, and let them loose upon the French commerce, and to form a grand expedition with General Howe's army against the French West-India islands; to cede Gibraltar and a Sugar-Island to Russia, on condition of the Empress sending fifty thousand men to North-America and West-Indies — To confirm these circumstances, is a Commission going to Holland to engage foreign troops.

The above paragraph appeared in the London papers, a few days before the Court of France had ordered the Rebel vessels out of their ports, and prohibited the sale of their prizes.