t.
_Q._ Did the gentleman get out there?
_A._ Yes.
_Q._ Did you hear whom he asked for?
_A._ He asked for Colonel or Captain somebody, I did not hear the name,
and they said he was gone to breakfast in Cumberland Street.
_Q._ What did the gentleman say then?
_A._ The gentleman asked if he could write a note to him.
_Q._ Did he go in?
_A._ Yes, he went into the parlour.
_Q._ Were you discharged then?
_A._ Yes, the gentleman gave me four shillings before he went in, and I
said, I hoped he would give me another shilling: he took out a bit of a
portmanteau that he had, and a sword, and went in, and came out into the
passage and gave me another shilling.
_Q._ What sort of a portmanteau was it?
_A._ A small leather one, big enough to wrap a coat up in.
_Q._ What sort of leather?
_A._ I think black leather, as well as I can recollect.
_Q._ Have you seen that person since that you drove that morning?
_A._ Yes, I saw him in King Street, Westminster.
_Q._ At the messenger's house?
_A._ At Mr. Wood's house.
_Q._ Do you see him in court?
_A._ I think this is the gentleman, here, (_pointing to De Berenger_.)
_Q._ Were you of the same opinion when you saw him at Mr. Wood's?
_A._ When I came down stairs he looked very hard at me.
_Q._ Did you know him then?
_A._ Yes, it was something of the same appearance, but he had altered
himself very much by his dress.
_Cross-examined by Mr. Richardson._
_Q._ You went to Wood's for the purpose of seeing him?
_A._ Yes, I did.
_Q._ Wood is a messenger of the Alien Office?
_A._ He lives in King Street.
_Q._ He was pointed out there as being the person in custody?
_A._ No, I walked down stairs, and met the gentleman coming up stairs.
_Q._ You thought you saw a resemblance?
_A._ Yes, I thought he was something like the same gentleman that I had
carried.
_Q._ You do not pretend to be able to recollect every person you carry
in your hackney coach every day?
_A._ No, but this gentleman that I took from a post chaise and four,
when he got out at Green Street I saw that he had a red coat underneath
his great coat.
_Q._ You did not open your coach to him, the waterman did that?
_A._ Yes, the post boy ordered me to get on the box.
_Lord Ellenborough._ When he got out you opened the door to him I
suppose?
_A._ Yes, I did.
_Mr. Richardson._ Did you open the door, or the footman at the house?
_A._ I opened the
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