The entrance of this distinguished statesman, whose friendship for the great Pitt kept him constantly in the public eye, caused little less than a sensation. As he took the oath, I had a near view of him; his dignified bearing, his age, and his notable integrity showing at every turn, the tones of his voice filling the court with a peculiar resonance while he deponed as follows: "I come," he said, "as a messenger from Mr. Pitt, who regrets that his Majesty's affairs, connected with the troublous times in France, prevent his leaving London. I have his deposition, however, and the case has been fully set before me by him, so that I feel I am in a position to tell the whole truth of this disastrous affair and to set Mr. Carmichael before the world as a free man. "There existed between Mr. Pitt and the late Duke of Borthwicke, as the world knows, a peculiar friendship. On the third morning after the duke's death there came to Mr. Pitt a packet, taken from Stair House and mailed about five of the morning upon which the duke died, directed in the duke's hand, containing three things: "First--The findings of the Lighthouse Commission. "Second.--Some information from the French, a document of twenty-two pages, writ in a cipher known to but five persons in the United Kingdom, which paper alone convinced Mr. Pitt of the authenticity of the document; and last, a personal letter, the original of which Lord Rothermel begged to read before it be given to the jury: "MY EVER DEAR PITT: "When you receive these papers--the last intelligences I shall ever send you--I, the writer of them, shall be no more. "A great disappointment, one which I have not the heart to endure, together with a return of my old trouble, for I have had three bleedings from the lungs within a month, have cured me of the taste of living, and, by a mere movement of the trigger, I end the game to-night. "It is a fancy of mine to take my leave of this earthly stay surrounded by the little dear belongings of the one I love. "There will be much talk back and forth concerning me. I pray you bespeak me, if you will, a brave, insolent, selfish, and unscrupulous man of many villainies, some wit and foresight, a disrespecter of humanity, athirst for power, and a hater of fools; but one who, at the end, was capable of a great love for a great woman. "I send some verses, which are of my own making to-day. As Shakespeare says, 'Ill favored, but mine own,' and so good night--a long good night. "TO NANCY STAIR "I stand upon the threshold going out Into the night. The mists of old misdeeds crowd all about And blind my sight. "But thro' the many worlds to come, my feet No more shall roam. The light from thy dear face at last my sweet Will bring me home. "To you always, my dear Pitt, "Borthwicke"