807. JOHN NEALE proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 5th day of August last, two fowls, value 3 s. the property of John Hubbard proceedingsvictim .

BETTY HUBBARD < no role > sworn.

I am wife of John Hubbard < no role > , No. 9, Trump-street, Honey-lane Market ; I lost two dead fowls on the 5th of August, at half an hour after nine at night; they laid in the shop-window; the man that took them, as be looked through the glass, looked like a black-man; I saw him through the window of the kitchen; I told Mr. Hubbard, and he ran, and cried stop chief.

Was the prisoner the man that took the things? - That was the man that the boy brought back in five minutes, and said dropped the fowls.

JOHN COFFE < no role > sworn.

I live with Mr. Hubbard; I saw my master come out, and I made after the prisoner, and he dropped the fowls; I brought him back; I brought the scowls home; he was all over foot.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I had been at the fire in Aldermanbury, and I was coming to oil a jack; the young man said, I had dropped the fowls; I said, if so, you will see the mark of my black hand; I went with them gently, as an innocent man would do; if I had been given to thieving I had no occasion to steal two fowls; I leave it to your Lordship's generosity.

GUILTY .

To be confined six months in the House of Correction .