cover to Admiral Bickerton, at Portsmouth, and that Admiral
Bickerton returned the letter, saying, that Admiral Fleming
had sailed for Gibraltar; that this deponent sent his
servants, Thomas Dewman, Elizabeth Busk, and Mary Turpin, on
the trial of this indictment, to prove that an officer came to
this deponent's house on the morning of the said twenty-first
of February, and to prove the dress that he came in, but that
the said Thomas Dewman only was called; and as this deponent
has been informed, he was not interrogated as to the dress in
which the said officer came to his house; and this deponent
further saith, that had the said witnesses been examined,
according to the directions of this deponent, and who were in
attendance on the Court for that express purpose, they would,
as he verily believes, have removed every unfavourable
conclusion respecting this deponent's conduct, drawn from the
supposed dress in which the said De Berenger appeared before
this deponent on the twenty-first of February, and on which
circumstance much stress was laid in the charge to the Jury,
the said De Berenger's dress being exactly as stated in this
deponent's former affidavit hereinbefore-mentioned; and this
deponent solemnly and positively denies, that he ever saw the
said De Berenger in a scarlet uniform, decorated by medal, or
other insignia, and he had not the least suspicion of the said
De Berenger being engaged in any plot respecting the funds,
but merely believed he wished, for the reasons stated in this
deponent's former affidavit, to go on board this deponent's
ship, with a view to obtain some military appointment in
America; and this deponent declined complying with his request
to send him on board his ship, without permission or an order
from the Lords of the Admiralty; and this deponent further
saith, that he was in no degree intimate with the said De
Berenger; that he had no personal knowledge of his private or
public character; that he never asked the said De Berenger to
his house, nor did he ever breakfast or dine with this
deponent therein on any occasion whatsoever; and further, this
deponent saith, that he hath been informed, and verily
believes, that the Jury who tried the said indictment, and the
Counsel for the defence, were so complet