was concerned in another part of the plot, had
produced a small parcel at home which had been given to his wife, and
the next morning (Sunday) had brought home two coats and two hats,
evidently intended to fit out two persons with the appearance of foreign
officers. Those are the first circumstances that appear previous to the
day when this plan was to be put in execution.

The next period to be adverted to was the morning of Monday, the 21st of
February, and on that morning, about a quarter after one o'clock in the
morning, one of the defendants, Charles Random de Berenger, makes his
appearance at the door of the Ship Inn at Dover, wearing the dress of a
foreign officer, as described by four witnesses, who saw him at Dover
with the scarlet uniform of a military officer under a grey great coat,
and a military cap, the cap worn by military officers, applying to be
furnished immediately with a chaise and four to proceed on his journey
to town, holding himself out as a person who had just landed from a
vessel come from the coast of France, and bringing very important
intelligence of the success of engagements in that country, in which the
Ruler of France had been defeated, with other circumstances not
particularly necessary to be adverted to, and that the consequences
would be in a very short time a peace between that country and this. He
is expressly recognized and pointed out as being one of the defendants,
Charles Random De Berenger, by four different persons who saw him at
that time in the morning at the Ship Inn, where he continued for some
time, while horses were preparing, having called for pen, ink and paper,
to write a letter, as he professed, to be sent off to Admiral Foley, the
Admiral commanding the ships stationed in the Downs, and while there
actually dispatching a messenger with such letter to Admiral Foley,
which is proved to be afterwards received by the Admiral, affecting to
communicate this intelligence, and signing this by the affected name of
De Bourg, as aid-de-camp, to what appears to be intended for Lord
Cathcart.

From thence he is traced distinctly through the various stages where he
changed horses, at Canterbury, Sittingbourn and Rochester, where he
stopped and took some refreshment, and had some conversation with the
landlord of the Crown Inn, who speaks to his dress at the time of the
communication which he there made, similar to that which I have adverted
to as having been made upon his firs