said, that not
anticipating any objection on my part from the conversation he
had formerly had with me, he had come away with intention to
go on board and make himself useful in his military capacity.
He could not go to Lord Yarmouth or to any other of his
friends in this dress, (alluding to that which he had on) or
return to his lodgings, where it would excite suspicion (as he
was at that time in the rules of the King's Bench) but that if
I refused to let him join the ship now, he would do so at
Portsmouth. Under present circumstances however he must use a
great liberty, and request the favor of me to lend him a hat
to wear instead of his military cap. I gave him one which was
in a back room with some things that had not been packed up,
and having tried it on, his uniform appeared under his great
coat, I therefore offered him a black coat that was laying on
a chair, and which I did not intend to take with me; he put up
his uniform in a towel, and shortly afterwards went away, in
great apparent uneasiness of mind, and having asked my leave
he took the coach I came in, and which I had forgotten to
discharge, in the haste I was in. I do further depose, that
the above conversation is the substance of all that passed
with Captain Berenger, which from the circumstances attending
it, was strongly impressed upon my mind; that no other person
in uniform was seen by me at my house on Monday, the 21st of
February, though possibly other officers may have called, (as
many have done since my appointment;) of this however I cannot
speak of my own knowledge, having been almost constantly from
home, arranging my private affairs. I have understood that
many persons have called under the above circumstances, and
have written notes in the parlour, and others have waited
there, in expectation of seeing me, and then gone away; but I
most positively swear that I never saw any person at my house
resembling the description and in the dress stated in the
printed advertisement of the Members of the Stock Exchange. I
further aver, that I had no concern, directly or indirectly,
in the late imposition, and that the above is all that I know
relative to any person who came to my house in uniform on the
21st day of February, before alluded to. Captain Berenger wore