513. ELIZABETH SULLIVAN proceedingsdefend was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 25th of April , a quart pewter pot, value 1 s. 4 d. and two pint pewter pots, value 1 s. 6 d. the property of Richard Sibley proceedingsvictim .

RICHARD SIBLEY < no role > . I keep the White Swan, Little Ormond-street . On the 25th of April, at five o'clock in the evening, the prisoner came to my house with some butter in a basket; she placed her basket on a table where there were seven pots, and pressed me to buy butter of her; she had half a pint of beer, and went out. When she was gone, out of the seven pots that were on the table there were three gone.

THOMAS STIRLING < no role > . I am a constable. On the 25th of April I saw the prisoner in Dorrington-street; she had three pots in her basket and some butter. I took her to the office.

The property produced and identified.

Prisoner's Defence. I was very much in liquor.

GUILTY , aged 28.

Confined Six Months in the House of Correction , and fined 1 s.

Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Common Serjeant.