523. THOMAS ROSE proceedingsdefend indicted for feloniously stealing on the 8th of July , a cotton gown, value 6 s. a black silk cloak, value 1 l. 12 s. the property of Mary Skegil proceedingsvictim .

MARY SKEGIL. I lodge with Mrs. Cross, at Spring-gardens, under Spring-garden-chapel . On the 8th of July, about a quarter past three o'clock in the afternoon, I was coming up Spring-garden, I saw the prisoner coming up the steps of my apartments.

Q. Had you left any body in your apartment. - A. No.

Q. Had he any thing with him. - A. He had the things under his coat, I pulled his coat of one side, I only saw he had something; I asked him what he had got there and what business he had there; he began to give me abusive language and ran away he turned the corner; he threw the things against a Greenwich-coach.

Q. Did you see him do that. - A. No, I only saw part of my things drop; he went of the other side of the coach.

Q. Then you could not see what dropt. - A. No. They were carried into the coach-office; I went with Treadway the officer into the coach office and had my things.

Q. Did you leave the door of your room locked. - A. No; I only pulled the door after me, and so I found it partly.

EDWARD TREADWAY < no role > . I was in Scotland-yard; I saw the prisoner at the bar running up Scotland-yard towards the Strand; we took him in Northumberland-street; I had another constable with me. The people said that the woman that was robbed was in the coach-office; we took the prisoner there, the woman was there; she said that he was the man that had robbed her, and this bundle was given to me by one of the servants in the coach office in the presence of the prosecutrix; she said it was her gown and cloak.

ALEXANDER DALLAS < no role > . I am a constable. When I heard the cry of stop thief, I was at the corner of Northumberland-street, Scotland-yard. I observed a man stop and talk to a publican. I went up to him and took him; there were a number of people following him calling stop thief; I charged him with what he had done; he said he had only broke a window, and could not pay, for it; I told him he was my prisoner. I took him to the coach office; Treadway had the things, and I took the prisoner to St. Martin's watchhouse.

Prisoner's Defence. I work at Chiswick; I am a plasterer . I came to town to see my cousin in Tothil-street; I had been to see him. Coming into Spring-gardens, I went up a passage that goes into Cockspur-street; I turned round to go into the Strand; I went past Charing-cross and turned round Northumberland-street; I heard a cry of stop thief; I stopped and asked a publican whether he knew the Fox in Hungerford-market; he said he kept the house; then I was taken in custody.

NOT GUILTY ,

First Middlesex jury, before Mr. justice Le Blanc.