6, 7. SARAH STEVENS proceedingsdefend and MARGARET ALLEN proceedingsdefend were indicted for stealing two pewter quart pots, value 3 s. the property of William Stonell proceedingsvictim , November 12th .

WILLIAM STONELL < no role > sworn.

I keep the Goat and Star in Pall-Mall . I saw the two prisoners coming along Pall-Mall; the woman, Stevens, took up a quart pot, and she sent the little girl, Allen, to take up another; I followed them a little way, and then I seized them both, and took two of my pots from them.

(They were produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.)

How old is the child? - Nine years old. I have lost fourteen pounds worth of pots within three months.

[The prisoners did not say any thing in their defence.]

ALLEN NOTGUILTY .

STEVENS GUILTY .

Tried by the Second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM.

[Branding. See summary.]

[Imprisonment. See summary.]