ses, and the Rochester horses too, and the turnpikes.
_Q._ He gave you and the other lad a Napoleon a-piece?
_A._ Yes he did.
_Q._ Who took him up at Dartford?
_A._ Thomas Shilling and Charles Ward.
_Cross Examined by Mr. Park._
_Q._ What was the color of his cap?
_A._ I did not take notice of it.
_Q._ There was a white ribband stuck through it?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ You took so much notice of it you said it was like an officer's
cap?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ How do you describe an officer's cap, are there not different sorts
of officers caps?
_A._ I have seen what they wear when they are not in their regimentals,
those they wear in a morning, this was such a cap as they generally wear
in a morning, not what they wear with their regimentals in the day-time.
_Q._ It slouched down I suppose?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ There is a something comes down to shade the eyes?
_A._ Not on that.
_Q._ How does it slouch then?
_A._ A kind of a turn down, a little way turned down.
_Q._ What was a little way turned down?
_A._ The cap.
_Q._ What part of the cap, in the front, or where?
_A._ In the front.
_Q._ Did you observe what color it was?
_A._ No I did not.
_Q._ Whether it was a dark brown?
_A._ I did not take any notice of the color.
_William Tozer sworn._
_Examined by Mr. Adolphus._
_Q._ You are an innkeeper at Dartford?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ What is your sign?
_A._ The Crown and Anchor.
_Q._ Do you remember on any particular day James Overy bringing a fare
to any other house in your town?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ What day was it?
_A._ About the 21st of February.
_Q._ What day in the week?
_A._ Monday morning.
_Q._ What sort of person was it you took notice of?
_A._ The person that I took notice of was sitting in the chaise.
_Q._ Did you speak to him?
_A._ I did.
_Q._ What passed between you?
_A._ I was informed----
_Q._ Tell us what you told him?
_A._ In the first place, I made my obedience to the gentleman in the
chaise, hoping that he had brought us some good news.
_Q._ You said so?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ What did the gentleman say?
_A._ He said he had, and that it was all over; that the Allies had
actually entered Paris; that Bonaparte was dead, destroyed by the
Cossacks, and literally torn in pieces, and that we might expect a
speedy peace.
_Q._ Did he tell you any thing more?
_A._ No; during the conversation I saw him give James
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