66. CHARLES KENT proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing three pair of silver shoe-buckles, value 6 l. the property of Augustus Levage proceedingsvictim , Dec. 5th .

JOHN PETER ESTEINNE < no role > sworn.

I am shopman to Mr. Augustus Levage < no role > , a goldsmith , the corner of Suffolk-street, Charing-cross : upon the 6th of December, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, I opened the case and missed a pair of buckles; my master came into the shop and missed two more; on examination we found a piece of the glass broke out; I had seen them at three o'clock the preceding day.

[ Two pair were produced in court by Grubb the constable, and one pair by Lloyd < no role > the pawnbroker, and deposed to by the witness.]

CHARLES GRUBB < no role > sworn.

I am a constable: upon the 5th of Decem. I went into a pawnbroker's in Holborn, and found Ann Bolton < no role > offering these buckles to pawn; the pawnbroker would not take them in; I stopped the woman and secured the buckles; she took me to her house and shewed me the prisoner, who she said she had the buckles of: I took him into custody; she said to him, How could you bring me into a scrape, by sending me to pawn buckles that were stole, and he acknowledged he gave her the buckles, and hoped we would be as favourable to him as we could.

EDWARD LLOYD < no role > sworn.

I am servant to Mr. Lane, a pawnbroker: I took in a pair of silver buckles of Ann Bolton < no role > on the 5th of Dec. in the evening she came afterwards with the other two pair, and Grubb stopped her and the buckles.

ANN BOLTON < no role > sworn.

I went to Mr. Lane's in Holborn with a pair of buckles; Lloyd < no role > the shopman took them in of me.

Who gave you the buckles? - The prisoner: I keep a cloaths-shop in King-street; he brought them to me and asked me to buy them; I said, I don't know the worth of them; he asked me to go and pawn them for him, and I went to pawn them; I am sure the prisoner is the boy.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

As I was crossing Long Acre I saw the buckles lay on the ground rolled up in paper; I picked them up, and not knowing what to do with them I took them to this woman.

GUILTY .

Tried by the Second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.