rning of the
21st of February?
_A._ I was.
_Q._ Was your attention called to any thing in particular on that
morning?
_A._ Yes it was, after Mr. Marsh went out first and called for lights, I
took two candles and went across with him to the Ship.
_Q._ On getting to the inn what did you perceive?
_A._ I perceived a gentleman in a grey coat, a pepper and salt coloured
coat, more properly speaking.
_Q._ Look at that coat, and tell me whether it was like that?
_A._ Something similar to that.
_Q._ Did you remark any other part of his dress?
_A._ Not at that time.
_Q._ Tell us what passed when you went over?
_A._ Mr. Marsh asked me to go and call the ostler up, and tell him to
get a post chaise and four immediately.
_Q._ Had the stranger said any thing in your presence?
_A._ Not at that time.
_Q._ Did you do so?
_A._ I did.
_Q._ Did you return back again?
_A._ After some considerable time--I was sometime in getting the ostler
up.
_Q._ Where did you find the stranger on your return?
_A._ I found him in the parlour.
_Q._ Were there any lights in the room?
_A._ There were.
_Q._ How were the lights placed with reference to him, and what was he
doing?
_A._ There were two candles on the table, the gentleman was walking
about, he had got a uniform dress on I perceived then.
_Q._ What was the colour of that dress?
_A._ Red, trimmed with gold lace, with a star upon his breast.
_Q._ Did you perceive any other ornament?
_A._ No I did not, to notice it.
_Q._ Did you make any remark upon the dress of his head?
_A._ He had got a cap on.
_Q._ Was it like that cap?
_A._ Something similar to that.
_Mr. Park._ Does your Lordship think they ought to be exhibiting these
paraphernalia; it appears to me something like a novelty exhibiting such
things in a Court of Justice till the proof has gone further?
_Lord Ellenborough._ The witness has said he had a cap on, and so on.
_Mr. Park._ If they had asked was it that cap I should not object to it
if they were prepared to prove that was the cap, but they might send to
Covent Garden wardrobe and fetch all these things?
_Mr. Gurney._ I undertake to prove by the person who made the dress for
De Berenger, that these are fac similes of the articles of dress made
for him.
_Mr. Park._ You stated that very expressly and very clearly.
_Lord Ellenborough._ Unless his recollection goes to their being such
things, I think it w
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