The Virginia Gazette

June 25. An article in the Dutch prints received by this day's mail says, "The stranger arrested lately at Brest, says he is a Scotsman, and brother of Lord Gordon. He has been, it is said, at Toulon and Rochefort, with the same view that he hath passed some time at Brest. Some will have it, that before his departure from the latter part, he had a design to set fire to the magazines, but that is not credible. All that we certainly know is, he was five weeks at Brest, that he lived honourably under the name of Lord Gordon, an officer in the English marine; and that he presented himself to the commandant with letters from the Count de Chatelet Lomont, Ambassador from the King, at London. He is safely guarded in the castle, and the English Charge d'Affaires here, is desired to give information of this matter to the British Ministry, and render an account of what they may think of it."