Did you see him? - No; but we felt him; he came and flung himself across the bed; we were in bed and in sleep; he demanded our money, and said, he came for money, and money he would have.

Did you lay alone? - No, my niece and me were in bed together.

Some person came and threw himself across the bed, and demanded your money? - Yes; I did not know his voice, but my niece did.

What happened after? - He went out after he had the money and the plate.

Did you give him any money? - Yes, I gave him about two guineas and a half, and two shillings, in a bag.

Did he take any thing else besides the two guineas and half-a guinea and two shillings? - Not that I know of besides the plate.

Did you see him take the plate? - No, I did not, but I lost that quantity of plate I have mentioned, and it was found upon him; then he left the room and went down stairs; I asked him how I should get out; he said, I shall lock the door, and will put over the key for you to come out; I went out and called in the watchman, and the things were gone.

Then he left your house without discovering who the person was? - Yes, we got up and struck a light, and went down into the market and called the watchman, who came up.

Did you make any discovery? - None at all, only we lost our property; nobody was in the house when the watchman came; nothing more happened in the course of that night.

Mr. Garrow. You are a single woman, you have never been married? - No.

MARY YOUNG, the younger, sworn.

I am niece to the prosecutrix, she lives in Leadenhall-market, and I live withher; on the 8th of April last, about a quarter before one, as near as I can recollect, we were in a dose, not in sound sleep, and somebody came on the bed, rushed on my arm; and I cried, oh dear! who be you, how came you here? the answer was, be still, and I will not hurt you; that was repeated two or three times; I cried, which way did you come in? and he said no matter; but he had that about him that would do for us, if we made any resistance, for he never went out without a pistol or hanger; but he would not hurt us if we were still.

Did he demand your money? - Yes; he said, he wanted money; the money was given him; the first money was given by my aunt; I do not know the amount of it.

Did he take any money from any other person besides your aunt? - He said, it was not money enough, and I got out of bed and unlocked the box, and gave him two guineas and half.

Was that the whole that was in the box? - No it was not; then he said, was that all? and I said, would you distress me to the last half guinea? and he said no more; but said, I will not hurt you.

Was that money taken out of the box yours, or your aunt's? - That was my property.

What passed afterwards? - He told us to go to bed, and be quiet, and make no noise.

And he sat upon your stairs, and you had a little conversation with him? - I had not, my aunt had.

Did he set upon your stairs, or stand? - That I cannot tell, because I was in the dark; and my aunt said (I wish to speak this) my aunt said, have you been in this way before? that was of robbing; and he said, yes, many times; but he never hurted any one, without they were obstreperous, or turbulent, or any thing of that kind; and I made answer, it was a very bad way of doing; but wherever you go never commit murder, for the life would do him no good, and it would save him, I did say, I think, from the gallows, (which you know is a vulgar way of speaking) the longer.

Court. So you had this conversation, after he took your property and had left your room, on the stairs? - Yes.

He came in at one, and did not leave your apartments till after the watch went half past two? - Yes.

Had you any knowledge of the person with whom you was holding this conversation? - Yes, I had.

From what circumstances? - By his voice.

Had you been acquainted with the prisoner before? - Yes, I have known him this three years.

Did you know it was the prisoner at the time? - I knew it was his voice, but I did not say it was him at the time; it is hard saying to the person by the voice.

Then do you apprehend that the voice was similar to the prisoner's voice? - Yes, I did, when he had spoke three words; and I pinched my aunt that she might not speak, because being an antient woman, she might have cried, oh Mich! is it you?

As far as I understand you, you have acquainted with the prisoner for three years? - So far as neighbours, speaking good night, or good morning; but no conversation particular.

Did you deal with the fishmonger that he lived with? - Very little; a little now and then; he served me before now with a trifle; he always behaved very civil.

But nothing more than good night, or good morning? - Nothing more.

When did he leave the house? - I think the watch went half past two; a person called up a neighbour to go to Billinsgate to buy fish, and when the watchman come the half past two, he said, I shall not be in your house above five minutes longer, and he would lock the door; my aunt said, how shall we shut the door after you, when you are gone? and he said, he would take care and lock it.

Court. This was very familiar conversation that your aunt held with him, I think? - Yes, and me too; he locked the door, and threw the key in, that we might have it, when we came down stairs; my aunt and me came down, opened the door, and called in the watch; and we had the house searched from top to bottom; there was no nail moved, nor lock broke; then I immediately said, he had hid himself in the cellar.

How could he throw the key in? - He could shove it in under the door, or shove it through the lattice; I heard the key go down, and then I said, now he is gone.

Did you lose any part of your property? - A silver tankard, a silver chased cup, two silver table-spoons and tea-tongs; they were my property separate from my aunt's; I brought it with me; I saw the several things that same night at half after ten; when we went to bed; there was a dark lanthorn left in the cupboard, instead of the plate.

Did you see any thing of the prisoner during the course of that night or the next day, or any other time? - Yes; I frequently saw him when I used to go down to the shop, but I did not take any particular notice; I dare say he was at the shop as usual.

Had you any other reason to suspect the prisoner took this plate and money, except from the circumstance, that you knew his voice? - So far; when we put out advertisements from Goldsmith's-hall, in consequence of my advertisement the plate was found, by Mr. Wright, in Tooley-street, a silversmith; the whole was found there.

Then will you inform me, whether you of your own knowledge knew any thing to affect the prisoner, being the person guilty of the fact, except the circumstance of his voice resembling? - No.

Mr. Garrow. You were much frightened? - Yes, it is very natural.

You were very much frightened? - Very much.

This was a very odd conversation to hold with the man that had been robbing you, on the stair-case? - Really, I could talk to him more freely knowing him; I thought he would have more compassion.

But you was cautious that neither you or your aunt did let him know, that either of you did know him? - Certainly.

Have you one of the hand bills here? - I have.

I wish to see one.

(Shewn to Mr. Garrow)

These hand-bills were published the very next day, I take it for granted? - In the morning, as soon as possible.

How many days after this robbery did the prisoner continue in his work? - I sent to his master's on the 8th that the bill was put out, and on the 11th he was apprehended; I saw him every day, three or four times a day, with a great fear and trembling.

How happened it, that in this advertisement you give no sort of description of the person, or of his name, or any thing particular in his voice, where he lived, or where he was to be found? - Because I thought if the plate was found, I should know the person it was taken on.

But you knew the man already? - Yes, and I spoke to him once as I had done before.

There was no reserve on your part? - No, there could not be much reserve on my part; I reasoned with myself thus far; what signifies it to take and apprehend this man, when I have no proof against him, his voice will not do; I did not say that the person was a neighbour; I took care that nobody should know it.

Did you mention it to any human creature till the plate was found? - I gave an item to one just to ease my mind a bit, but not to a soul beside; she never divulged it.

That was a female friend? - Yes, you may be sure of that.

Did the person speak in a feigned voice? - He had rather two voices; sometimes a rough one, and sometimes a smooth one.

Do you mean now in a case where a man's life is concerned, alarmed as you was, frightened almost to death, do you mean to swear with certainty to a man's voice, especially a man that has two voices? - Yes, Sir, and more than that; I said, who the man was, after he locked the door, I said to my aunt.

Did you tell your aunt that this was Mich.? - I did not say Mich. at once; I said, that was a face I knew; you have a right to plead, but I have not a right to answer every question.

There you are a little mistaken, you will find you must; do not talk so much, you will beat me all to pieces: you did not tell your aunt before the watchman came in, who it was? - I said it was Mich's voice.

Henderson. I asked the prisoner how the plate came in this state; he told me, he cut it with a knife.

Mr. Garrow. You told him, it would be better to tell all he knew about it? - No, Sir, I did not.

Who told him that? - Nobody that I know of.

Court. Previous to the time of any conversation, did you make him any promises, that if he would confess he should receive favor, or had you frightened him by any threats? - No; he asked me, what would be of any service to him? indeed, says I, I do not know, it is a business I do not understand; says I, I do not know any thing will be of any service to you; here is the property; I asked him what he had done with the money; he said, he had paid his rent with the money.

Did you give him any reason to apprehend, if he was to make any confession respecting this matter, it would be better for him? - No; he asked me, what would be of service to him; I told him I did not know any thing else would.

Mr. Garrow. I take the principle to be this; the language which I remember of Mr. Justice Grose on our last circuit;

"he must neither be influenced by hopes, nor awed by fears."

Court. But according to my apprehension, this man did not hold out to him hopes, or intimidate him by fears.

Mr. Garrow. No, my Lord; but he is consulting what he shall do; the man is not acting freely; you know the common saying is,

"it will be better for you."

Court. When he said he had cut this plate with a knife, was that before he asked you what would serve him? - No; it was previous; he said, he cut it with a knife; says I, I thought you must have done it with a pair of sheers; says he, with a knife and a hammer.

Do you recollect his particular expression? - He said, he cut it with a knife;

(The plate shewn to the niece;)

Here is the strainer marked M. H. my aunt's.

Do you remember the mark? - Yes.

Was the one you lost, marked M. H. Yes; I have cleaned it a hundred times; I am quite sure that is the mark, not H. M.

Then how happened you then to print it in your hand-bill H. M.? - Because it was a mistake; it was only the cart before the horse; I saw that fault when the bills came home; here is a table-spoon that was marked, T. E. Y. and here is the T. at the end; it was mine; it was a table-spoon; it was my father and mother's name D. E. and Y. at top.

Mr. Garrow. That is not so printed here; it is D. E. Y. as though it was in a word? - That is the printer's fault; this was marked, D. E. Y. but this I can swear to without any mark; it is a silver cup, and has no mark upon it now; this is part of the cup that was my property; here are two letters on the sugar-tongs M. R. besides the mark, T. E. & Y. that mark does not agree with the hand-bill.

Court. From your observation of that plate, in the mutilated state in which it is; are there any particulars by which you can swear to the property; either your aunt's, or your own? - I can swear to the whole, either marked, or not marked; the mark of some of it is visible, and not only that, often handling it at three or four and twenty years, and some of it thirty years, these marks were all upon either my aunt's or my property.

John Vincent called, but did not appear.

Thomas Bonner called, but did not appear.

Court. Order their recognizance to be estreated.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I am innocent of the matter; I leave it entirely to my counsel; my master is out of town; I have sent for his sister who is housekeeper to him; I do not know whether she is here.

The prisoner called five witnesses who gave him a very good character.

The Jury withdrew, and returned with a verdict,

GUILTY, Death.

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. Baron PERRYN.

He was humbly recommended to mercy by the Jury, on account of his behaving so will during the time of the robbery.