e selected for the purpose;--he was a
foreigner by birth; he had resided long in this country; he would pass
very well for an officer; he had been for fourteen or fifteen months a
prisoner for debt in the King's Bench, or rather within the Rules of the
King's Bench; he would be a convenient man afterwards to convey away; as
he would prefer a residence in any other country, because his creditors
resided in this.

You will find that he made his appearance a little after midnight of
Sunday, the 20th of February--the morning of Monday, the 21st of
February; at Dover; he was first seen in the street, enquiring for the
Ship Hotel; he was shewn to it, he knocked loudly at the door, and
obtained admittance; he was dressed in a grey military great coat, a
scarlet uniform, richly embroidered with gold lace, (the uniform of a
Staff Officer) a star on his breast, a silver medal suspended from his
neck, a dark fur cap with a broad gold lace, and he had a small
portmanteau; he announced himself as an Aid de Camp to Lord Cathcart,
just arrived from Paris; that he was the bearer of glorious news, that a
decisive battle had taken place, that Bonaparte was pursued and killed
by the Cossacks, that the Allied Sovereigns were actually in Paris, and
that now (that most welcome news to the Inhabitants of Dover) an
immediate Peace was certain. He desired to have a sheet of paper, that
he might write a letter to the Port-Admiral at Deal, Admiral Foley;
paper was furnished, and he sat down to write, and soon afterwards the
letter was dispatched to the Port-Admiral at Deal. Upon persons coming
round him and importuning him with questions, he pretended to be
extremely fatigued. He said he had travelled two or three nights. "Do
not pester me with questions, you will know it to-morrow from the
Port-Admiral." He ordered a post-chaise and four for London, and he
offered to pay with some gold Napoleons; the landlord of the inn did not
know exactly the value of a Napoleon, and scrupled to take them, upon
which this gentleman, rather inconsiderately, produced from his pocket
some one pound Bank of England notes, with those notes he paid for his
chaise, and he set off for London in the post-chaise and four. When he
arrived at Canterbury he rewarded his post-boys very liberally; he gave
each of them a Napoleon. A Napoleon, I dare say you know, is worth
eighteen or twenty shillings; he ordered horses on to Sittingbourn; the
same chaise brought him from Cant