696. RICHARD HARRIS proceedingsdefend and JANE HUNT proceedingsdefend were indicted for feloniously making an assault upon John Fielding proceedingsvictim , in the King's highway, on the 20th of August , putting him in fear, and taking from his person, a watch, value 3 l. a chain, value 6 d. two keys, value 6 d. nineteen shillings in monies numbered, and seven 1 l. notes , the property of John Fielding.

JOHN FIELDING < no role > . I am a servant .

Q. Do you know Ann Hunt < no role > - A. I do. On the 20th of August, a little before nine in the evening, I was coming home from Portman-street; coming along Oxford-street, I met with Jane Hunt; I asked her the way into Holborn; she said, she was going there, she would shew me. She brought me through George-street; in George-street two men met me; the prisoner was one, Harrison was the other; the prisoner jostled me; the other man pulled the chain from my watch. The prisoner put his hands round my neck; the other man catched me by the legs, and throwed me down on the flag stones, and robbed me of my notes in George-street; my notes were in my right hand breeches pocket. They took my watch from me also, and my silver, to the amount of nineteen shillings. They then left me across the door of No. 4. A woman had the candle at the time.

Q. What woman - A. Jane Hunt< no role > . They put out the candle; the light disappeared.

Q. Was Jane Hunt < no role > in company with you when the men came up - A. No, she was not.

Q. Then she was not the woman that you met - A. No, she was not.

Q. I thought you said, you met her at the corner of Oxford-street - A. No; it was another woman. The two men and the woman were all strangers to me; I never saw them before.

Mr. Barry. The woman that you first met, was an acquaintance, was not she - A. No; I met her at the lower end of Oxford-street.

Q. I thought you said, that you met them all at the corner of Oxford-street - A. No; it was another woman. Jane Hunt < no role > was the woman that had the lighted candle when I was robbed.

Q. How long have you been in London - A. Eight months; I came from Dublin.

Q. Now, sir, what hour in the afternoon did this take place - A. About ten minutes before nine o'clock, when they robbed me. I went into the next house, it is a public-house; I told the landlord I had been robbed of so much money.

Q. Where did you live - A. In Guildford-street, in the Borough. I am now out of place, and I was out of place at the time I was robbed. I first came over from Dublin with the Archbishop of Dublin, and I went back with him to Dublin.

Q. < no role > What wages had you when you were in place - A. Twenty-six guineas.

Q. Now, sir, it was about nine o'clock in the afternoon - A. Yes.

Q. Where did you dine - A. < no role > At my house, in Guildford-street. I left my house about two o'clock in the afternoon.

Q. What became of you from two o'clock in the afternoon until nine o'clock at night - A. I went to Portman-street, and stopped there, with Lord Clareall's servants.

Q. What had you to drink - A. Nothing to injure me; I drank share of a pot of porter.

Q. You said, you were pulled down by two men - A. Yes; that was in George-street

Q. Did you see any one come past you - A. No.

Q. This was on Saturday, the 20th of August. Did< no role > you ever see the man at the bar before - A. No; but when the woman brought the light out, I saw his face, and I saw him go into the public-house the next morning at six o'clock; I pointed the man prisoner out to my friend, who was with me.

- ABRAHAMS. I am a patrol of Bow-street. I apprehended the prisoner at the Maidenhead public-house, in Dyot-street. The woman was apprehended at No 4, in the same street. I searched the prisoner. I found nothing on him relating to this case.

JAMES CADMAN < no role > . I am an officer. I apprehended the woman at No. 4, in Dyot-street. I searched her, and found nine shillings upon her.

Harris said nothing in his defence; called two witnesses, who gave him a good character.

Hunt's Defence. On Sunday morning the prosecutor came to the house No. 4, I lived servant there; the prosecutor brought three officers with him; he said, I was the person that held the candle. I had never seen the prosecutor before that time.

NOT GUILTY .

First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Baron Graham < no role > .