191. THOMAS LEE proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 22d of January , one linen table-cloth, value 2s. the goods of Richard Dawkins proceedingsvictim .

ANN DAWKINS sworn. - I am the wife of Richard Dawkins, who keeps a public-house ; I lost a table-cloth on the 6th of November, Mr. Bly came into my house, and asked me, if I had lost a table-cloth, I looked and found I had; I saw the table-cloth the same day, I know it to be mine by the mark, there is the whole name of Richard Dawkins < no role > stamped upon it, the colour of the letters are red, I will swear it is my property, the prisoner was quartered at our house at that time.

JOHN BLY < no role > sworn. - I am a constable belonging to St. James's, Westminster; I went to Mr. Brown's, the pawn-broker's, I saw a tablecloth there, marked R. < no role > Dawkins, he lives in St. Margaret's parish; I did not take it away, but I gave information to Mrs. Dawkins, I know it again, I saw some of the same kind at her house, marked in the same way.

JAMES COURTANY < no role > sworn. - I am shopman to Mr. Brown, I produce a table-cloth; Ann Gould < no role > brought this table-cloth to pawn, on Monday the 22d of January, about twelve o'clock, I have kept it from that time to this, our house is about a quarter of a mile from the house of Mrs. Dawkins.

ANN GOULD < no role > sworn. - I was in a public-house, having some beer, at the Green-man and Still, the corner of Bear-street, Westminster, and a soldier came to me, and asked me, if I would go and pawn the cloth; I asked him if it was his, and he said, yes; he told me to get as much upon it as I could, I went to Mr. Brown's, and asked two shillings for it; Mr. Brown asked me, whose it was, I told told him, a soldier's, and that he was at the Greenman and Still, he told me to go and send him to him, and the soldier went immediately to Mr. Brown's, that is all I know about it; I have seen him before, but have no acquaintance with him.

Court. Q. How came you to be made a witness? - A. The pawnbroker knew me, I have lived near him about nine years.

Q.(To Courtnay.) Did the prisoner come to your house? - A. Yes; I asked him where he lived, and he told me, he lived at a public-house, Prince's-street, he said, his name was Dawkins; I went to the house where he told me he was quartered, but could not find any such person; we stopped the sheet, I told him, I would make inquiries about it, and if he came by it honestly, he should have it again.

Mrs. Dawkins. This is my property, I have others at my house of the same sort.

Prisoner's defence. I got up to work in the morning, and I found it.

GUILTY (Aged 28.)

Judgment respited to go into the army or navy .

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. RECORDER.