517. JOHN KING , alias PRICE proceedingsdefend , was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 21st of April , four pewter pint pots, value 4 s. the property of Stephen Woodward proceedingsvictim .

STEPHEN WOODWARD < no role > . I am a publican , I live at the Devonshire Arms, Duke-street, Portland-place .

Q. Did you lose any of your pots any time - A. Yes, four, I believe they were taken from my house, being all clean when they were found upon the prisoner.

JAMES COLLINS < no role > . I live in Denmark-street, St. Giles's, I am a sign painter. On the 21st of April, about half past seven o'clock in the evening, I was at work at the corner of Denmark-street, the prisoner passed by and dropped a pot, one of my men called after him, and said, master, you have dropped a pot, the prisoner went on, I am certain he heard, I pursued him and looked him in the face, I recollected that I had seen him before, I took him to the public house opposite, he had got one pot in his apron, and two pots tied with a string in his breeches, I picked up the pot that he dropped, the four pots had Mr. Woodward's direction on them.

Prisoner's Defence. I must leave it to your judgement and the mercy of the Court.

GUILTY , aged 53.

Confined Two Years in the House of Correction , and fined 1 s.

Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Common Serjeant.