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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Dutch prints report the arrest at Brest of a Scotsman claiming to be Lord Gordon's brother, who visited French naval ports under suspicious circumstances, presenting letters from the British ambassador; he is now guarded and the matter referred to British authorities.
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Brest
Event Date
Lately
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he is safely guarded in the castle, and the english charge des 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.
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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 port he had a design to set fire to the magazines, but that is not credible. All that we certainly know is that 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 Chataulet Lomont, Ambassador from the King at London.