r, he must use a great
liberty, and request the favour 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 his uniform _in a towel_, and shortly afterwards went away." If
he put that uniform in a towel, he must have pulled it off his back, for
it was on his back before, and then Lord Cochrane, one would think, must
have seen him do it; what business had this man with a red aid-de-camp's
uniform? he had no business to wear any such garb, he was almost as much
out of his proper character, as I should be if I appeared habited in the
particular dress and professional habits of an officer or a clergyman;
but it does not rest there, for he himself lends to this person the
immediate means of his concealment, he lets him have a hat instead of
his _laced cap_; and what had such a cap to do with a sharpshooter's
uniform? upon seeing him appear habited as all the witnesses represent
him to have been in his way from Dover to Green-street,
Grosvenor-square, would not any one who had known him before have
immediately exclaimed, where have you been, and what mischief have you
been doing in this masquerade dress. It is for you, gentlemen, to say
whether it is possible he should not know, that a man coming so
disguised and so habited if he appeared before him so habited, came upon
some dishonest errand, and whether it is to be conceived a person should
so present himself to a person who did not know what that dishonest
errand was, and that it was the very dishonest errand upon which he had
been so recently engaged, and which he is found to be executing in the
spreading of false intelligence, for the purpose of elevating the
funds, if he actually appeared to Lord Cochrane stripped of his great
coat, and with that red coat and aid-de-camp's uniform, star and order,
which have been represented to you, he appeared before him rather in the
habit of a mountebank than in his proper uniform of a sharpshooter.

He says, "he went away in the hackney coach I came in, which I had
forgotten to discharge in the haste I was in. The above conversation is
the substance of all that passed with Captain De Berenger, which, from
the circumstances attending it, was strongly impressed