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London, England, 1801-09-21 00:00:00

o'clock, the Profecutor Went out a little way, and
at his return found the beef had-been taken away.
About twenty minutes after (even, the ,P,rifoner
was ken, by one of the witneifes, taking he
piece of beef into the (hop of one Sharp, a butcher,
in Windmill-ftreet ; and the witnefs Rated, that
he remained there more than a quarter of an hour.
About eleven o'clock in the forenoon, Mr. Pugh
get intelligence of the beef being taken to Sharps;
accordingly he repaired thither, accompanied by
an officer : they found the prifoner in Sharp's flop ;
and the profecutor immediately recognized his
beef; a part of the piece had been cut off, and was
banging up in the fhop. ile charged the prifoner
with the theft, which be pofitively denied, averring
that he had never ken the piece of beef before.—
Sharp's wife inftantly faid, that it wss he brought
it there, which, however, he perfifted in denying :
he was taken into cultody ; and while they were
conveying him to the Magiftratethe endeavoured
to get away, and (truck the officer
Sharp, the perfon above alluded to, was prevented
from appearing, by his being, atcording to the
flatement of his wift, arrefted fhortly after his re-
turn from attending the Court on Wednefday.
The prnfecutor aeftribed the way in which he
could identify the piece of beef.
The prifoner being called on for his defence, laid,
that he met Sharp, the butcher, near Covent Gar-
den; whin employed him to take the piece of beef
to his honk trilVindraill:theet, fbr which he laid
he thould have fiilsence. Sharp's wife admitted
that the bad paid-him fix-pence for bringing the
beef. • • _ _ _

The Learned Judge, in the cow& of his obfer-
vations to the Jury, pointed their attention to the
circumftance of his having denied any knowledge
(if thc beef, wheii apprehended in Sharp:* flop.
The Jury had very little befitation m ending
him Getibp . .
Matthew Nse and jean Plate, or burgla-
rioully breaking sad entering the dwelling-houfe
of William Belton. and felon:o4y Sealing therein
a *variety of articles, of women's wearing
apparel, the property of at Clerk.
It appeared that the profecutor. and the prifoner
Nell. were Soldiers, and belonging to. din fame
Comps:ay, in oat' of the Regiments of Guards : the
former was, at the time of the ,the being commit.
ted, fick and confined to an hapital. His wife
ufed to walk for. Nell. _ They had an .spartatent
on the pound floor of a honk is one of the obfenre
areas an Weßtainfter. On the night at the asith
of JulA the profccutor's wife did-not lie in her
own apartment, but flept with a woman who
lodged up Pairs : at ten o'clock, when Ike retired,
fbelocked her room as ufnal : the next morning
the came down about (even o'clock, and found the
door a-jar, and a box which contained the greater
part of the things' laid in the Indl6ment, 11M been
rifled. _ _ _ _

By another line of evidence it appeated, that the
two prifoners had been drinking at a neighbouring
public.boufe, until a late hour of the itight,oa the
asth of July : that at about four o'clock in the
morning, they were met coming down Chford-
fireet, by two of the Patrole s the prifone; Nell
had a bundle; Philips had two fmaller ones. The
Officen followed them into a pablic-houfe at the
bottom of TottenhantCourt.road,and infifed npop
knowing the contents of their bundles ; this led to
a fpeeify detthion : on the prifoner Nell were
found two keys, one of. which opened the lock of
the Profecutor's apartment. The articleswere duty
identified by the Profecutor's wife. The aggregate
value of the articles was not laid in the Indsament
fo high as forty (killings e and with refpeft to the
charge of burglary, k was held to be done away,
inafmoch as it appeared, that one of the Witneffis,
who lodged in the houfe, came in after one o'clock,
on the morning of the 26th, and found the door
Taft; they were met by the Patrole about four
o'clock in the morning ; by their account it had
been then light above an hour, and the place they
were ftrft feen at, wan little more than a mile from
the houfe *here the robbery was committed; it
was, therefore, very allowable, and humanely fop
peed by the Court, that the entry was made at
Inch a time in the morning, as there was light fur-
ficient to clininguills a human countenance, which
of courfe, invalidated the charge of burglary:—
Under this fugge Ilion, the Jury found the Prifoners '
Gsultl iffleal/2 oily. •
Robert hily.rf and John Kass were indifted for
ftealing on the isth inft. 331 b. weight of cocoa,
value 11. tss. which, by the firft count in the in
diament, was laid to be the property of Mean.
Blancheley and Co. ; in the fecond, as the property
of Mefrs. Little; and in the third count, as that
of perfoin unknown.
This cafe, on account of a degree of intricacy
that pervaded it, and the great number of wit-
swifts examined, occupied the attention of the
Court a confiderable time; however, its merits are
briefly let forth in the following ftatement :
It appeared that a great quantity in hags had
been forwarded from the flores of hlelfrs. Blanche-
ley and Co. to the wharf of Meas. Little,tlighter.
men, to be conveyed by one of their lighters on
board a velfel lying in the River, for the purpofe
of exportation. The bags were accordingly put on
beard the lighter, which was worked by the pri.
loner, Kent, a (errant of Mean. Little, and was
proceeding to the place of its deflination. About
nine o'clock Mr. J. Little happened to be on Lon-
Lion-bridge ; he deferied his lighter on its way, but
was rather furprized to fee two men on board,
when one was fuflicient to work her; he was alto
furprized to fee that the cocoa was covered by a
tarpaulin, though the morning was very fine. The
fecond man he obfcrved to he the prifoner Meyers,
who ha I been fome months before in his employ.
Almoft immediately Meyers (looped down and
got under the tarpaulin; arongly fufpeeing fome
foul play, he initantly took boat, purfatd, and
overtook the lighter ; he went on board, and lift-
ing the tarpaulin, he difcovered the prifoner Mey-
ens lying down, and near his head lay a Walt!,
man's jacket, made with a very large circular
pocket, and piaced under a hole which 1125 in one
of the bags of cocoa and at the very moment tome
of the cocoa was failing into the pocket. lie in-
!tantly kind Meyers, charged him with plunder-
ing Lislmat, and after foam refinance, got him on