198. JOHN AMBROSE proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing, upon the 16th of January , one hempen bag, value and fifty six pound weight of iron nails value 30 s. the goods of Ebenezer and John Johnstone proceedingsvictim proceedingsvictim .

Ebenezer Johnstone deposed, he had sent a cart load of nails to Dice Quay , to be put on board a vessel bound for Deal, and he lost a bag containing fifty-six pound weight.

Mr. Duncombe. A custom-house officer detected the prisoner with the nails, and asked him how he came by them, he told him a sailor had sold them to him for two gallons of rum, (the bill of parcels found in the bag was deposed to by Johnstone.)

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

A man desired me to carry the bag of nails for him, and was to give him six-pence and a pint of beer.

GUILTY .

To be publicly whipped one hundred yards, near Smart's Quay , and confined for six months in the house of correction .

Tried by the First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Justice BULLER.