. The portmanteau was a
small black leather one; I saw that gentleman in King-street,
Westminster, at the messenger's house. I think this is the gentleman
here; when I saw him in King-street, as I came down stairs, he looked
very hard at me; I knew him then, though he had altered himself a great
deal in his dress."

Upon his cross examination, he says, "I went to Mr. Wood's, the
messenger of the Alien Office, for the purpose of seeing him; I walked
down stairs, and met the gentleman coming up stairs, and I thought he
was something like the gentleman I had carried; I do not know every
person I carry in my hackney-coach; this person, when I got to
Green-street, I saw had a red coat underneath; the waterman opened the
coach-door for him to get in." So that he was within view of the
waterman. "He had on a brown grey great coat, with brown fur cap."

Now, gentlemen, he is brought to the house of Lord Cochrane; further
evidence arises afterwards upon the subject of his being there.

We will at present follow the dress to its conclusion. George Odell, a
fisherman, says, "In the month of March, just above Old Swan stairs, off
against the Iron Wharfs, when I was dredging for coals I picked up a
bundle, which was tied up with either a piece of chimney line or window
line, in the cover of a chair bottom; there were two slips of a coat,
embroidery, a star, and a piece of silver, with two figures upon it; it
had been sunk with three pieces of lead and some bits of coal; I gave
that which I found to Mr. Wade, the secretary of the Stock Exchange; it
was picked up on the Wednesday, and carried there on the Saturday. I
picked this up on the 24th of March." You have before had the animal
hunted home, and now you have his skin, found and produced as it was
taken out of the river, cut to pieces; the sinking it could have been
with no other view than that of suppressing this piece of evidence, and
preventing the discovery which it might otherwise occasion; this makes
it the more material to attend to the stripping off the clothes which
took place in Lord Cochrane's house. When he pulled off his great coat
there, what must he have displayed to his Lordships eyes, if present at
the time? Did he display the uniform of the rifle corps? The uniform of
the rifle corps is of a bottle-green colour, made to resemble the colour
of trees, that those who wear it may hide themselves in woods, and
escape discovery there; that is, I presume, the reason