very anxious for a post-chaise and four; the porter at
the Ship came down to him; he wanted an express horse, and a man to send
to the Admiral at Deal;" then it is highly probable, as he wanted an
express horse, that he did send this letter by that express; the
witnesses swear they saw him writing a letter. "I asked him where he
came from, and he told me, he was the bearer of the most important
dispatches that had been brought to this country for twenty years; I
asked him where he came from? he told me, from France. I asked him,
where he landed? he told me, on the beach; and he begged of me to get a
post-chaise and four for him; and then I went and called Mr. Wright, of
the Ship Inn; then he wanted pen, ink, and paper. I had shewn him into a
room; as soon as Mr. Wright came down stairs, Mr. Wright gave me a sheet
of paper, and pens and ink, which I carried into the room; I gave it to
him, and he began to write upon it; he called for a bottle of Madeira,
and something to eat." That circumstance of his having wine, is
afterwards confirmed, for when he is going up Shooter's hill, he is
giving it away to some of the postillions. "I asked him, whether I
should call the collector of the port? telling him, that it was his
business to see such people when they landed; he made answer to me, that
his business did not lie with the collectors; then Mr. Wright came, and
I had no more conversation with him; two candles were placed, one on
each side of him, and I could see him; _that is the gentleman_;
(pointing him out.) A gentleman of the name of Gourley was there, and
another of the name of Edis, was also there." Then he says, "I went to
get horses with all possible dispatch; he told the two postillions he
would give them a Napoleon each;" and that description of coin attends
him throughout, nor does it quit him to the last, for in the very desk
when he is taken up in Scotland, there were found Napoleons tallying
with these; therefore the proof in this particular is dovetailed and
closed in, beyond any thing I almost ever saw in a court of justice.
Then he says, "he had a German cap on, and gold fringe, as I thought;"
and it turns out, upon an exhibit we had made to us of a similar cap,
that De Berenger had such a cap; those that are shewn, were made in the
resemblance of what, from the evidence, they collected the articles to
be. They are not the originals; the coat, it appears, was cut to pieces,
and got out of the Thames, but the