had furnished a clue to his detection. The circumstance of his
obtaining a change of dress at my house, never could have been known if
I had not voluntarily discovered it; and thus I am represented as having
brought him publicly to my own house, of being the first to disclose his
name, and of mentioning a circumstance, which, of all others, it was the
most easy to conceal, and, if divulged, the most certain to excite
suspicion! Is it not next to impossible, that a man, conscious of guilt,
should have been so careless of his most imminent danger?

My adversaries dwell upon some particulars of this affidavit, which they
pretend to find contradicted in the evidence. The principle one is my
assertion that Berenger wore a green coat. I have repeated this
assertion upon oath, under all the risks of the law; and I also solemnly
affirm, upon my honour, which I regard as an obligation no less sacred,
that I only saw him in that dress. The witnesses on the part of the
prosecution have asserted, that he wore a red coat when he arrived in
town. Granted. But may he not have changed it in the coach, on his way
to Green-street? Where was the difficulty, and for what purpose was the
portmanteau? My own fixed opinion is, that he changed his dress in the
coach, because I believe that he dared not run the risk of appearing in
my presence till he had so changed it. I tender affidavits of those who
saw him, as I did, in his green coat, at my house. That he should have
changed his dress before I saw him is most natural, upon the supposition
of his wishing to conceal from me the work he had been about; but it is
like many other confirmations of my innocence, fated to excite no
attention in the minds of those who only seek food for their
suspicions. Much is said of the star and other ornaments, as if any
proof had been given of his wearing them in my presence. He took
especial care, I doubt not, to lay them aside on his way, when he had
divested himself of his official capacity, long before I saw him. The
small portmanteau before-mentioned, which it is admitted he brought with
him, in all probability furnished him with the green coat, and received
the red coat and its ornaments, and very possibly for this reason no
remark has been made upon it. A good deal of observation has been
bestowed upon De Berenger's unwillingness to appear before Lord Yarmouth
in uniform, and the inference was, that this uniform could not have been
the green dress of hi