453. THOMAS PHIPPS proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 15th of February , seventy-eight silken bags, value 5 s. and 4603 pounds weight of salt petre, value 140 l. the property of Frederick Pigou, the elder, and Company proceedingsvictim , then and there being in a certain barge called the Elizabeth, on the navigable river of Thames .

NOT GUILTY .

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.