ght with you, or did you go without one?

_A._ I went without a light.

_Q._ Upon going out whom did you find at Mr. Wright's door?

_A._ Some gentleman there.

_Q._ What was his appearance?

_A._ He appeared to be a gentleman.

_Q._ What was the appearance of his dress?

_A._ He had on a grey greatcoat and a uniform coat under it.

_Lord Ellenborough._ Was there light enough by the moon or the stars for
you to see this?

_A._ After I got to the door, I called to a gentleman in my house to
bring two lights across, when I had the two lights, the gentleman was in
the passage.

_Mr. Bolland._ Do you mean the gentleman you had seen at the door?

_A._ Yes; he had a star on his red coat.

_Lord Ellenborough._ That coat you describe as a uniform coat, was a red
coat?

_A._ Yes it was.

_Mr. Bolland._ That was under the great coat?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Will you look at this star, (_shewing it to the witness_,) and tell
me whether it was like that?

_A._ That I cannot tell, it was something similar to that.

_Q._ Had he any other ornament?

_A._ Not to my knowledge.

_Q._ Did you say any thing to him or he to you?

_A._ He was very anxious for a post chaise and four.

_Q._ Did he apply to you for that?

_A._ No not to me in particular.

_Q._ Who had come down to him?

_A._ The porter at the Ship.

_Q._ Had you any conversation with him?

_A._ He wanted an express horse and a man to send to the Admiral at
Deal.

_Q._ Did all this pass in the passage, or had you proceeded further?

_A._ It passed in the passage.

_Q._ Did he proceed into the house?

_A._ I asked him where he came from, and he told me he was the bearer of
the most important dispatches that had been brought to this country for
these twenty years; I asked him where he came from; he told me from
France. I asked him where he landed, he told me on the Beach, and he
begged of me to get a post chaise and four for him; and then I went and
called Mr. Wright of the Ship Inn; after I came down from calling Mr.
Wright, he wanted pen, ink, and paper.

_Lord Ellenborough._ He went into the Ship Inn, did he?

_A._ I shewed him into a room of the Ship Inn. As soon as Mr. Wright
came down stairs, Mr. Wright gave me a sheet of paper, and pen and ink,
which I carried into the room. I gave it to him, and he began to write
upon it.

_Q._ You saw him write upon it?

_A._ I did. He called for a bottle of Madeira, and something to eat. I
asked