John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts

He then went to sea as a merchantman, after which he enlisted on board a man-of-war and was at the famous expedition against Vigo; but on the return from that expedition he was liberated.

Smith had not been long disengaged from the naval service when he enlisted as a soldier in the regiment of guards commanded by Lord Cutts.

But in this station he soon made bad connections and engaged with some of his dissolute companions as a housebreaker.

On December fifth, seventeen oh five, he was arraigned on four different indictments, on two of which he was convicted and received sentence of death.