I. ELIZABETH COCK, otherwise DYTCHER proceedingsdefend , was indicted for stealing three pair of linen sheets, value 20 s. four cotton bed curtains, value 10 s. two stuff bed curtains, value 10 s. a callico bed quilt, value 10 s. a linen table cloth, value 2 s. and a fur-skin cloak-lining, value 2 s. the property of Robert Kingsmill proceedingsvictim , Esq . October 14th .

GEORGE SMITH < no role > BRADSHAW sworn.

In the month of June I hired the prisoner to look after Captain Kingsmill's house while he went to sea. He is captain of the Vigilant ; she was there three or four months; I paid her regularly twenty-four shillings a month. About the 22d or 23d of October, Henry Woolaster < no role > , who had leave to lie in the house, called upon me, and told me some of the captain's relations were coming to town, and asked if I knew the woman, as he was afraid things were not right at home. The prisoner came the next morning to me, and desired to have half a guinea; I did not let her have it, but told her I would come up the next day; I went the next day, and took two men with me; I told her, that as the family were coming to town, I brought them to put up the furniture; I called up Woolaster, who told me things were just as he suspected; I then took the prisoner into the parlour, and she owned she had pawned the things mentioned in the indictment (repeating them) part of them at Mr. Hall's, St. Martin's-lane, and the remaining part at Mr. Freer's in Walker-court.

Did you make her any promises to induce her to confess? - None upon earth. I had no power to make her any; she said she was in debt, and in great distress, and pawned them to pay her debts. I saw the things in the hands of the pawnbrokers; I do not know them to be Mr. Kingsmill's.

HENRY WOOLASTER < no role > sworn.

I was servant to Captain Kingsmill. I was discharged in the country, but came to town, and had liberty to lie in the house; I was in the house at the time the prisoner came into it; I asked her were the curtains were which I had left in her care; she said they were in different places; I looked, but could not find them; on which, I suspected they were disposed of and told Mr. Bradshaw of it.

Did many people come after her? - A great many . Mr. Bradshaw came, and took her into a back parlour, and she confessed she had pawned the things mentioned in the indictment .

JAMES COLLINS < no role > sworn.

I live with Mr. Freer, a pawnbroker. I took in at different times of the prisoner, a callico quilt, two pair of sheets, three cotton curtains, and a skin for lining a cloak; the first was the 7th of July.

(They were produced in court, and Margaret Macfarson < no role > , Mr. Kingsmill's servant, deposed that they were Mr. Kingsmill's property.)

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I leave myself to the mercy of the court.

GUILTY .

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice WILLES.

[Branding. See summary.]

[Imprisonment. See summary.]