1. JANE GARDINER proceedingsdefend was indicted for stealing a woman's black silk cloak, value 10 s. the property of Mary Darby proceedingsvictim , Nov. 24th .

MARY DARBY < no role > sworn.

I live in St. Catherine's . I wash and iron and take in work for a living . I lost a black silk cloak a fortnight ago; it was stole out of a bandbox which was in a closet in my room.

How do you know that it was in that closet? - I had it in my hand about five minutes before I went out of the room, and I then put it into the bandbox. I went out toget a a pint of beer. I was not gone more than three minutes; when I came back, I went to the bandbox and missed my cloak. I heard two or three days after, that it was pawned at one Mr. Pepper's; I went there and described the cloak. Mr. Pepper said he had got the cloak; and that it was pawned by Jane Gardiner < no role > . The prisoner was taken up and carried before Justice Clarke; she owned there that she took the cloak.

Was any thing said to induce her to make a confession? - No; I asked the prisoner's mother who it was that took my cloak; the prisoner said she took it. The pawnbroker is not come with the cloak.

ELISABETH MITCHEL < no role > sworn.

I was in the publick-house when the prosecutor came in for some beer; she came back again, and said she had lost her cloak. I went with the prisoner to the Justice's; she confessed that she had taken the cloak; and she said there was a hat and a bit of dark linen in the box when she took it out; she said she pawned it for five shillings, for her mother. The justice sent for the prisoner's mother, but the mother would not come to the justice's.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I pawned it for my mother.

NOT GUILTY .

Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. Baron HOTHAM < no role > .