| Description | Statement relating to William Smith alias Robert Scott now under confinement in the House of Correction at Northallerton. Describes his clothing when he was apprehended and his physical description. Smith alias Scott was apprehended on the race ground at Stockton on Tees in October last on suspicion of picking a pocket and was then committed for having counterfeit coin in his possession. Gives further information about his background and personal history, but states that the account given by Smith alias Scott is largely or wholly untrue and that he is the same person who was convicted under the name of Robert Auctuon alias Robert Scott at the Assizes in Lincoln in March 1801 and sentenced to seven years' transportation; but who escaped in June from the Prudentia hulk lying in Woolwich |