The Kentucke Gazette

July 18. A daily paper says, the public may be assured, of the following very important intelligence: On the 7th of September last a corvette sailed from Brest with dispatches for Pondicherry; he arrived off that place on the 8th of February. No person was permitted to go on board but a special messenger with the dispatches; and those being delivered, the corvette sailed from the coast the next day. The governor of Pondicherry on the receipt of these dispatches, sent an officer of distinction to Tippo Saib the consequence of which was, that in a few days Tippo marched with a very considerable body of troops and took possession of an important pass. Upon Which General Conway, the commander of the French forces, embarked 1200 Europeans on board two Indiamen, and sailed for Trincomalee, of which he thus secured the possession, and positively refused to give it up to the Dutch.