2. JOHN LEVEE< no role > , otherwise JUNKS< no role > , was indicted for Assaulting William Young< no role > , Esq; and Colonel Cope, in a Chariot on this side Hamstead , about six at Night, on the 10th of December last : It appearing that John Junks< no role > and Matthew Flood< no role > , and J. Blake (the Evidence) being together robbing on Hamstead Road , Blake went before to give Notice, and crying out lay hold, Flood laid hold of the Horses, while Junks enter'd the Chariot, and took from Mr. Young, a Gold Watch and Chain, two Seals, and a Ring; And from Col. Cope, a Gold Watch, and a Ring, and 22 Shillings in Money: The Evidence appearing plain, the Prisoner was by the Jury found Guty. He was at the same time convicted in all of four Robberies.

This unfortunate Person (whose Name was Levee) about 30 Years old, being born, he said in St. Clements Parish . His Father (a French Gentleman) was one of Those who came over with King Charles II, and had the Honour to instruct Three Dukes, Sons to the said King, in the French Tongue, having a House at that time in Pall-Mall . Some Years afterwards, he was a Wine-Merchant, and dealt for many Thousands per Annum to France; at which time, he said, (tho' since reduc'd) the Children walk'd the Streets with a Footman, or two after them. But his Father afterwards, thro' Misfortunes and Losses failing in the World, was oblig'd to leave his Family and go into Holland. Upon which this unhappy Son John was taken by the French Society, in order to his being put Apprentice, but instead thereof, was put to a Captain of a Man of War , being then very Young. Tho' he was several Years at Sea, he had the Fortune, he said, never to be in any, even the slightest Engagement, nor to have any one with him damag'd. Adding, that he was in the Essex when the Spanish Ships where taken in the Mediterranean, but that Victory was so easily obtain'd, and there was so little need of the Ship he was in, that he could not properly say he was then in any Fight. Afterwards, returning into the British Channel, he was turn'd over into the Elizabeth Man of War, in which he went under Sir John Norris< no role > into the Baltick ; but the Muscovite Ships not daring to Face the English at Sea, and it being judg'd by the Admiral impracticable to attack them in their good Harbour of Revel, he also return'd from thence, without having the Happiness, he said, of being in an Engagement.

After he return'd home, he said, he was to have been Book-keeper to a Merchant in Tower-Street ; but not having Patience to perfect himself in Arithmetick, and being of too busy a Nature to be still and quiet even one Day; as there was not Employment ready cut out to his Hands, he easily fell in with some who at a Publick-House in Holbourn talk'd to him, at first in a Jesting way, of going like Gentlemen on the Highway. But he added, that he believ'd a vast Quarrel that he then had with his Companion, would have diverted him from those Vicious Pursuits, if a Destiny had not over-rul'd his Actions.

He and Blueskin, he said, robb'd often on the other Side of the Thames, in Kent , or Sussex Road . In particular, about the beginning of October last, they stop'd (I think) the Camberwell Stage-Coach, near Stoke-Newington , going from London, about 6 o'Clock in the Evening; there being one Lady, and four or five Gentlemen, they desir'd them not to frighten the Lady, for she was with Child; upon which, they did not search any one, but holding a Hat, took what was put into it; which he thought by the Quantity had been a great Sum of Money, but found afterwards 'twas mostly Farthings, unless his Companion had cheated him of part, which Trick he had before, he said, play'd him. But they heard afterwards that there were several Hundred Pounds about the Coach.

He added, that in the same Road, they stop'd a Gentlewoman alone in a Coach, who had a large Basket of Cakes or Buns, three or four of which he