A. I think at a quarter past one, or somewhere thereabouts, I heard a violent knocking at the gate or door, and a person calling out for a post-chaise and four immediately. I got up and dressed myself as quickly as possible, and went down stairs. I met Mr. Wright, the landlord, and asked him——
Q. Do not state any thing that passed between you and Wright, unless the stranger was there.
A. I went into the coffee-room, I think it is called.
Q. Did you observe any body there?
A. I saw a gentleman in a military uniform.
Q. Will you state, if you recollect it, what his dress was?
A. He wore a scarlet coat, with long skirts, buttoned across, with a red silk sash, grey pantaloons, and a grey military great coat, and a seal-skin cap, I think it was a seal-skin cap, on his head, of a fawn colour.
Lord Ellenborough. You did not touch it to feel it, did you?
A. No; it had a gold band round it.