master's sword at the time you saw it last?

Witness: When I went to Windsor.

Mr. White: When was that?

Witness: I cannot exactly recollect, and then he added, that about a
week since, he had sent from Windsor to the Palace, a portmanteau
containing his linen, and three pairs of trousers, four of stockings,
and three cravats were missing. The padlock of the portmanteau had
been forced by the sword having been applied to it. The sword had
broken in the attempt. He had also lost five 10 sous pieces, which
had been found upon the prisoner.

Mr. White: What is the value of the articles you have lost?

Witness: I don't know; but I should like to give three guineas to get
them back.

Mr. White: Can you swear to the French coin found upon the prisoner
as being yours?

The witness was then shown the coin, and he said that he certainly
could. They had been taken from his bedroom.

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Mr. White: Can any information be given as to the manner in which the
prisoner gained access to the Palace? Cox, one of the porters to the
Palace, said that the principal entrance door was always locked, and
the key in his possession. At 5 o'clock on Saturday morning, just as
he was about to get out of bed, the prisoner opened the door of his
room, as witness considered, to obtain the key; his face and hands
were disguised with soot and bear's grease, and he was asked whether
he came to sweep a chimney: he did not make any answer, but
endeavoured to escape.

Inspector Steed, A division, said that upon examining the gates of
the principal entrance of the Palace, he found that, at the Marble
Arch, there was a vacuum sufficient to admit a boy into the Palace,
without any inconvenience.

Mr. White: And is there no sentry at this gate?

Witness: There are two.

The inspector said that he had examined the boy's boots, and the
gravel upon them corresponded with that lately laid down close to the
Marble Arch. The boots had been taken off by the prisoner, and left
in one of the apartments appropriated to the use of the porters of
the Palace.

Mr. Griffiths, builder, Coventry Street, said that the lad had been
in his employment for a few months; he had always expressed his
intention to get into the interior of the Palace by some means or