speaks to his dress and his appearance, as the other
witnesses do.

Mr. Wright, who keeps the Crown Inn at Rochester, who saw him in the
house, speaks with much more particularity; he says, "I remember a
chaise and four from Sittingbourn arriving at my house on the morning of
the 21st of February, I remember that was the day; it was a tall person,
rather thin than otherwise, who came in the chaise; he had a pepper and
salt great coat, with a military scarlet coat under it; the upper coat
was nearer the colour of that coat, than any thing I could state
(_pointing to the coat on the table_); the scarlet military coat he had
under that, was very much trimmed with gold lace down the front, as it
appeared by candle light, and a military cap with broad gold lace round
it; it appeared to me to be cloth or fur, it appeared to be nearly the
colour of the great coat." The cap does not appear to have any
resemblance to the great coat, but in all other respects his description
seems to be right. "On the military coat, there was a star, and
something suspended, either from the neck or the button, I do not know
which, something which he told me was some honour of a military order of
Russia;" it turned out to be a masonry order. He is shewn the star, and
he says, "it had very much the appearance of that sort of thing. I
suppose I was in conversation with him about ten minutes; it was about
half past five when the chaise drove into the yard; during those ten
minutes I was getting some chicken for him, in our bar parlour. I was
called up by the post-boy of my brother at Dover, I went into the yard,
and found a gentleman looking out at the front window of the chaise, and
he said, he was very hungry, could he get any thing to eat? that he had
ate nothing since he left Calais; I asked him, if he would have a
sandwich, as I supposed he would not get out of the chaise; he said he
would get out, and he did get out, and I took him into our bar parlour;
when he got there I said, I am led to suppose, that you are the bearer
of some very good news to this country;"--a very natural overture to
conversation on the part of an innkeeper, and to extract a little
intelligence from him; "he said, he was, that the business was all
done--that the thing was settled; I asked him, if I might be allowed to
ask him what was the nature of his dispatches? he said, he is dead; I
said, who? he said, the tyrant Bonaparte, or words to that effect, I
believe these we