John Rider , alias Regar proceedingsdefend , of S. Dunstan's in the East , was indicted for feloniously stealing fifty six Pound of Butter, value 25 s. the Goods of Rich. Spearing proceedingsvictim , on the 23d of November last. It appear'd, that sixty Firkins of Butter were landed near the Custom-House Key , for the Prosecutor; one of them was between Three and Four in the Morning taken from thence by the Prisoner, who was stopt with it under the Custom-House Gate by Philip Harrison < no role > , (a Tide-waiter.) Harison had but just eased the Prisoner of his Burden, when Peacock (a Watchman on the Keys) came up and claim'd a Share of the Seizure; for both he and Harrison at first imagined the Prisoner to be a Smugler; but finding their Mistake, they carry'd him to the Watch-house, and the next Day he was committed to Newgate by Sir Francis Forbes < no role > . The Prisoner in his Defence said, that he found the Butter upon the Keys, about Four in the Morning and added, (to make his Innocence more visible) that a Carman's Boy saw him take it away. The Jury found him guilty to the Value of 10 d. Transportation .