114. SAMUEL STEEL proceedingsdefend (a Black ) was indicted for stealing, on the 20th of December last, three pounds weight of cotton, value 5 s. the property of George Hias Street proceedingsvictim , and William Harper proceedingsvictim .

The prisoner was taken with the cotton.

Prisoner. I am a poor man, and belong to the sea; I was out of work and very hungry, and I saw the cotton lay, and I picked it up to get me two or three half-pence; I never did so before.

Court. How old are you? - I do not know.

Where do you come from? - From America.

GUILTY .

Court. It will be mercy to the prisoner to let him be

Transported for seven years .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.