and 6 s. in money, the property of John Grinstead< no role > , in the dwelling-house of the said William Smith< no role > .

This most dangerous fellow was an artist throughly practised in getting in at windows, usually up one pair of stairs, about midnight, when people were asleep in bed, and robbing them. In the case of this indictment he was seen in the room and at the drawer by Mrs. Grinstead, who was awakened by his hunting about her chamber for prey, about two in the morning; there being a candle burning in the room by which she discerned him, and with surprizing calmness asked him, Good master, what do you want here? Upon which he very deliberately, with some hesitation, walked to the casement which he had left open, and got away. She quickly missed the things mentioned in the indictment out of her drawer. Seeing him soon after casually in a coach, she said, that is the man that robbed me; not knowing they were then carrying him before a justice for some other fact.

Though he was convicted on this indictment, yet being found to be a notorious house-breaker and robber, there being several charges, and three more indictments laid against him, in order to fix his fate, he was indicted a second time, for " that he on the 1st of August , about the hour of one in the " morning, the dwelling-house of James " Warner< no role > did break and enter, and steal " one gold watch val. 20l. one silver " watch val. 5l. one reflecting telescope, " one gold ring set with diamonds val. " 10l. one amethist gold ring set with " diamonds val. 3l. four mourning gold " rings val. 40s. one pair of ear-rings " set with diamonds and rose stones val. " 10l. two pair of silver shoe-buckles, " one pair of silver knee-buckles, one " silver stock-buckle, and 40s. in money numbered, the property of John " Hardy< no role > , in the dwelling-house of James " Warner< no role > ."

This fact was brought home to the prisoner by the evidence of Mr. Dyley, goldsmith and jeweller, who stopped him with the ear-rings now mentioned, as he offered them to him for sale, connected with the evidence of Mrs. Hardy, who proved them to be part of that property of which she was then robbed; and the only part of all that value which she recovered. And to aggravate the crime, the death of Mr. Hardy is reasonably believed to be occasioned by a cold he caught in consequence of this robbery. But monsters in this destructive way never regard consequences; nor think how strictly they must account for them!

He was born in Holstein , a subject of Denmark , and had been in the English transport-service, a seaman , about four years, being now about thirty-five years of age, of a short size, strong, light, and active, but emaciated almost to a skeleton by three weeks sickness in the cell before he suffered. Being asked, one day, why he took to this bad course, seeing he could earn his bread honestly? He shook his head and said, he had much better have stuck to that. He constantly frequented the instructions and prayers in the chapel, till disabled to move out of his cell by sickness. Being applied to and closely questioned in behalf and by request of the family robbed of the things mentioned in the second indictment, to know how he had disposed of the gold watch, rings, &c. his answers gave little hopes of recovering them. He said, he sold the gold watch to some foreigner, a Frenchman, or Spaniard, in Hedge-lane