yers to be dyed
black." Then she says, "From December to February we lodged together; we
kept but one fire, and lived a good deal together; he was in a state of
great indigence, and never had any money except a shilling or an
eighteen-penny piece now and then; after the North-fleet expedition, he
had a L.10 and a L.1 note, and the day before he finally left his
lodgings, he had three L.2 notes; he finally left his lodgings on the 2d
or 3d of March. On Sunday the 27th of February, he bought a new coat and
a new hat; on Monday the 28th, he said he was to have L.50 for what he
had done; he wished when he went away finally, for nobody to know where
he was going; and I wished not to know." On the 2d or 3d of March this
gentleman disappears as the other De Berenger had done on the 27th; such
were the nearly contemporaneous and similar actings of these parties.
Both of them on Saturday are making preparations for a scheme which is
to operate on London at the same period; you will consider whether there
was not a communion of purpose in these persons, whether they did not
conspire to produce a common end, though they might not particularly
know how the others were co-operating with them at that time; in short,
whether there might not be one master workman, who played the puppets in
both directions. Then you have the course of the Northfleet people.
Philip Foxall, (the next witness), says, "I keep the Rose Inn at
Dartford;" a letter was shewn to him, he says, "I received that letter
from Mr. Sandom, I knew him by his frequently having chaises from my
house." That note is one in pencil, ordering a chaise, "please to send
me over immediately, a chaise and pair to bring back to Dartford, and
have four good horses ready to go on to London with all expedition." "I
sent a chaise over to Northfleet, and had horses ready, as the letter
advised me; the chaise on its return drove furiously into my yard, with
Mr. Sandom and two gentlemen with white cockades, and large flat hats,
quite plain, except white ribbon or paper, and blue clothes, I cannot
say whether they were plain. I forwarded them with four horses. I asked
Mr. Sandom whether they would breakfast; he said no, they have
breakfasted at my house, they have been out in an open boat all night,
and are very much fatigued; I asked who are they? Sandom said he did not
know, but they had news of the utmost consequence, and begged I would
let them have good horses; they ordered a chaise a
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