522, 523. (2d M.) JOSEPH BENNET proceedingsdefend and JONATHAN PRICE proceedingsdefend were indicted for stealing a stand cock, belonging to a fire engine, value 40 s. the property of the parishioners of the parish of St. James, Westminster , March 30th . +

William Rocket < no role > . I am a publican: I was master of the workhouse at the time the stand cock was lost; I had the key of the engine house; the door was found open in the morning, and the cock was missing.

Thomas Savoy < no role > . I am engine keeper: about two months ago I had the alarm of a fire; I fetched the engine from the engine house, and when I came to the fire I missed the stand cock; I sent a man back to the engine house to look for it, but it could not be found; I saw it in the engine a week before; it is the part we put into the plug to supply the engine.

John Paul < no role > . I was a pauper in the work-house about ten months before; about three months ago, I am not positive what day, about nine o'clock, the two prisoners and I went to the engine house and broke the door open; we agreed to take the stand cock; it is a sold useful piece by itself; Bennet took it out and Price put it under his coat; we went to Mrs. Maylin's in Falconbridge-court; I had part of the money; it was paid in the public house; the cock had engraved out it, belonging to the workhouse of St. James's.

Mary Maylin < no role > . I bought an old piece of metal of the prisoner Bennett, that they call a stand cock; it was broke and bruised when I bought it; I do not know that I ever saw the other prisoner.

Q. What weight was it?

Maylin. It is so long ago I cannot say; (a stand cock produced); it was not so perfect as this, it was broke, and not so long.

Francis Johnson < no role > . I am schoolmaster to the Parish; I was before the Justice on Tuesday; Bennett confessed they took it, and wanted to be an evidence.

The prisoners said nothing in their defence.

BENNETT guilty of stealing to the value of 10 d . W .

PRICE acquitted .