959. WILLIAM ELLIOTT proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 27th day of September , two cloth coats, value 40 s. one silk waistcoat, value 10 s. three cotton waistcoats, value 12 s. two pair of satin breeches, value 10 s. ten pair of cotton stockings, value 10 s. one pair of silk stockings, value 10 s. three pair of shoes, value 5 s. one pair of boots, value 12 s. a glass in a mahogany frame, value 10 s. one hair trunk, value 5 s. the property of William Nairn proceedingsvictim .

JOHN ROBINSON < no role > sworn.

The prosecutor is a particular friend of mine, he frequently slept at my house after he was discharged from his ship, he lodged at the other end of the town then, he went to see his friends, I procured a passage for him, the trunks were sent to me on the 15th; and on the 17th, according to his directions, I gave the prisoner the trunk to ship; I did not know at the time I gave him the trunk what it contained, I only know now that I have received letters from Mr. Nairn about the account of the things, here is the officer that took the trunk, and the man's own confession before the Justice, I can speak to one coat.

JOSEPH BLUNT < no role > sworn.

I failed with Mr. Nairn in the General Elliott < no role > , I am familiar with all his clothes during the voyage, and what he had made after he came home; there are a great many things in the trunk I have seen him wear; I went down at the time the man was taken to the Rotation-office in Whitechapel, I saw Mr. Nairn's coat, it was on his back; the prisoner acknowledged the coat he had on was Mr. Nairn's, and that he took it out of the trunk; no promises were made that I heard of; he confessed that he sold the clothes to a woman, one Mrs. Cook, in Wingfield-street, I got a warrant and went to the house, we searched, and nothing was found, a part of the clothes are now in the trunk.

WILLIAM PARKER < no role > sworn.

I was upon duty, I was at the Angel and Crown tavern, the beadle came to me and informed me of it, and I went with the watchman to the prisoner's lodgings; when he opened the door, which he did after some little hesitation, there stood the trunk: he said they were some smuggled goods, which he dealt in; we took him to the watch-house, and found a great many more things in the trunk; this coat was taken off the prisoner's back.

(That and some other things deposed to.)

Prisoner. I leave it to yourselves, I always was an honest lad before; Mr. Robinson knows it.

GUILTY .

To be publickly whipped , and confined to hard labour six months in the House of Correction .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.