t application for a chaise and
horses at Dover. From thence he proceeds to Dartford, and from Dartford
in like manner, the last stage, into London. The post-boy who drove him
the last stage into town, besides speaking to his person, and all of
them having picked out and fixed upon Charles Random De Berenger, whom
they afterwards saw in court, as the person who had so travelled from
Dover to London, having had opportunities, during the last stage, of
seeing him while he was out of the carriage and walking up a hill, and
while he conversed with them directing them to the place to which he
should be driven. He inquired where he could first be set down, and
could meet with a hackney coach; one place proposed by the postboy did
not meet his approbation, he stating that it was attended with too much
publicity, and he then directed himself to be driven to Lambeth where a
hackney coach might be procured, and at the Marsh-gate turnpike at
Lambeth he was ultimately set down, and stepped from the post-chaise
into a hackney coach, and at that period he is spoken to positively, not
only by the postboy who had driven him to that spot, but by the waterman
who opened the door and put down the step of the hackney coach; he
swears distinctly to his person and to his dress, that he had then a
scarlet coat under a grey great-coat, with a military cap. From thence
he directs himself to be driven to Grosvenor-square. Those are the
orders given to the coachman when he gets into the coach, and then he
directs the coachman to a particular house and number in Green-street,
which was the house of one of the other defendants, Lord Cochrane, and
into which house the coachman proves his having seen him enter in that
dress first described by the witnesses at Dover, and confirmed by all
the witnesses on his passage during his journey, namely, a red uniform
coat under a grey great-coat. So much for that part of the transaction
which relates to the spreading of false rumours and reports respecting
what had happened in France, and the prospect of peace in the way from
Dover to the place where he was last set down, the house of Lord
Cochrane in Green-street on that same morning.

The other part of the plot or conspiracy was put in execution at
somewhat a later date, by the efforts of some of the other defendants,
namely, Holloway, M'Rae, Sandom, and Lyte, on that same Monday morning.
The innkeeper at Dartford receives a note from Sandom, ordering a chaise