The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-21 00:00:00

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.bunstuttiellitiai fi'llie 140 *ANN* .. Sii,'
lii kal'Olnhai Sin, o.4oteebt, US& **bad . '
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spoke impit eislesstly; : Atlitigth •ht :we
sod the Cfaerieets of the Patlehea *MA Salmi diei
banded! missed bits to I. appyeheitied, sad lu'NOt
Wet* a Magbtrate. He has been frequestlypaaWd.
• Oae of the taken said tat Peserkia Matt daimet
tpou a parish, es the gromad that he. had .hoeis the
yearly servant 18 years ago of a Mr. May, of imonlin•
wall, iiikssaker, bet open tieing Informed that hi
was. unknown to unr inikat seaters, teterkit lois, bir
meant Mr. May, the distiller. Upon *Wry, 4/01/1414
it,was found there hid been me Mr. May, the dialler,
is Loadoa.wall„ Within the recollection Of any body. •
Tbe.Lotta MATOI having found that Petorkin 144
so active an impostor, acquiesced is the saggestion4
the Overseers, that he should be remanded until the

Overseers in all the parishes in the nastropolis &said
have an opportunity of seeing him.
Peterkin is the eon of a man who wee possessed of
considerable property in ekrkenwell.• Ile has been
15 years living is a state of pauperism, but be has
connived to live high, and keeps lilt 1r s areatt
almost in a state of mortilleation. nage
way through the streets when going for his own ads
vantage, but when he is apprehended lie always obliges'
the Overseers to hire a coach for hitn.—He was re-
manded till Tuesday.
licts,su•r4.—Novet AND IMPORTANT
Jon fieskil, slims Se.rtory was brought to this jostle,-
room yesterday in cestay of Forrester. a city officer.
Saxton (for that, it seems, is his real name), was in-
dicted at the Old Bailey Sessions in July last fur a bur-
glary, and acquitted. thi his discharge at the end of
the Sessions, he was seized by an officer in the Old
Bailey, brought before Alderman Sir James Sbaw at
this justice-room, and by him committed to take his
trial for illegally returning. from transportation before
die expiration of the term for which be was sentenced.
The punishment for this offence, as every one knows, is
death and it is a little remarkable, that although the
rewards generally upon conviction of felons, (the blood
money, as it was termed,) were abolished, the 201. reward
for prosecuting an individual to conviction for this of.
fence was not done away with, but may still be claimed
under the statute.

Saxton. on his subsequent trial for returning from
transportation, was acquitted; three of the turnkeys ot
Newgate, Davis. Cole, and Bishop, deposing, that al-
though they had certainly seen the prisoner in custody
before, and recollected Lint (Saxton being a notorious
character, and his face familiar to most of the officers).
they could not swear that he was the person convicted
and transported for the burglary in 1616, as charged in
the indictment. Notwithstanding this acquittal. upon
representation to the Common Serjeant, Saxton was ile-
tamed, and another indictment preferred against hint for
appearing at large before the expiration of his term ot
transportation, in the comity of Middlesex, the- farmer
indictment haying charged the offence as committed in
the city of London. To this second indictment the pri•
soner pleaded leis previous acquittal of the offence; the
prosecutor filed a replication, and a collateral issue was
directed to try the question, whether or not the prisoner
had been so acquitted; or. in other words, whether the
offence of which he had been acquitted, and that with
which he was. then charged, were ■ot one and the same'

ley, before Mr. Justice IGehardson, on Wednesday even-
ing; (eon-report of the trial in liclitettemais of yes.
lenity.) when Saxton was again acquitted. the Jury de-
ciding, contrary to the opinion of the Learned Judge,
that the two charges were for the one and the same of-
fence. On Saxton's retiring from the court, lie was
again taken into custody by some of the Bow-street A.
cent: his solicitor interposed, the prisoner was brought
back into court, and appealed to the bench. l: he Learned
Judge said he could not interfere; he had done his
duce--be had discharged the prisoner. The solicitor
finding this application ineffectual, insisted that the offi-
cers of the county had no right to apprehend any per-
sons, and take them out of the city, without first bring-
ing them before a city magistrate; and upon this ob-
jection the prisoner was handed over to the custody of
Forrester.

When plued at the bar yesterday morning, Sax-
ton's Solicitor stated the history of the case, and
respectfully submitted that, under the circum-
stances, there could be no further charge against the
prisoner. On the Alderman's inquiring who ap-
peared against the prisoner, Furseman, one of
the Bow-street men, said he expected Mr. Staf-
ford, the chief clerk of Bow-street office, to at-
tend ; he promised to be there by twelve o'clock : he
(Furzeman) could not, however, say what charge was
to be made against the prisoner, other than the one of
which lie had been acquitted. The Magistrate, on this
statement, delayed the hearing; but at length having
waited until half an hour after twelve o'clock, and
Mr. Stafford not making his appearance, discharged
the prisoner, no evidence appearing against him, ex-
cept a man of the name of Fitchew, who was ready to
swear that the prisoner was the man convicted and orb
derail for transportation in October, 1516.
Mr. Stafford shortly afterwards entered the office,
and a conversation ensued betwl.ea- him and the Wor•
thy Aldermax, is which the.former mlained that his,
object is Wilihiag to.detain Saxton was not tegglin-
charge him with the offence of returning from *ass•
lortation, the punishment for which would be deatk
but for the purpose of returning► him to the place froils
whence he had made his escape (Botany Bay), tut
serve out the remainder of the term fur which he had.
been sentenced.

The Alderman said, the* he should have been pre-
pared wkh the record able conviction.
Mr. Stafford said he could prooluce.the record, and
was able to show the mail had returned from transp.irt-
ation, and he surely had a right to apprehend
and send him back to suffer his sentence.

" But," replied tbeAldertuan, "be has been ac-
quitted of that offence."
Mr. Stafford explained., that the prisoner's acquittal
of Wednesday everts;. hitd iothing to do with the ease.
Tite.qu'es ion the ..seethad to try was, whether -the
prison s tuld ciserged with the offence in Middle-
sex, att., hnelig been acquitted of it in the city of
London; sad 'they had decided, 'whether keit or no
it wii not he Mitt hi say, that the whole was one of-
fenie. ''Phis bad nothing to do with the right to de-
tain bins as a retarned convict. • •
To• *X it was *plied,. that as nintasoisat transport
be shirt ldeutifx' Ms person t and abbregh lee email
4sequittai on Wednesday evening, yet
spinet oath proof of :Itieldebtity be sight plena his
-artefttaroei its fernaer, trial, when be • bad bees.
'charged Vittli s resenting-Moo .transportino, and
deekinfloi Airy entittry. Noise not genity.