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HUTTON HALL, ESSEX.

An important Freehold Estate and Manor, well stocked
with Game, near Brentwood, and within two miles of
the great Eastern Road.
iIR.
R. W. W. SIMPSON has the honour to
-I- announce that he has received instructions from
the Executors of the late James Forbes, Esq., to SUBMIT
for SALE by PUBLIC AUCTION, on THURSDAY,
August 27 (postponed from July 21), at the Mart, Lon-
don, in One Lot, the HUTTON HALL ESTATE, an
important Freehold Property, well timbered, and divided
into several very compact farms, containing nearly One
Thousand Acres of arable, pasture, and wood land, a small
proportion only of which is in hand ; the remainder is in
the occupation of a respectable tenantry, on leases for long
terms. There are residences on the several farms, and
well arranged agricultural buildings of the usual descrip-
tion. Hutton Hall is a spacious family mansion, stand-
ing in the centre of grounds presenting a park-like appear-
ance, and approached through a lofty avenue of ornamen-
tal trees. It comprehends a spacious and well-pro-
portioned entrance-hall, dining and drawing rooms, break-
fast-parlour, study, and billiard-rooms, numerous prin-
cipal and secondary sleeping-apartments, attached and de-
tached subordinate offices. The gardens, orchards, and
grounds, are extensi:e, and produce an abundant supply of
fruit and vegetables. This valuable and desirable estate is
adjoining the domain of the Right Honourable Lord Petre,
is well stocked with game, and in a part of the county
proverbial for the variety of its field sports. It is distant
three miles from Brentwood, twelve from the county town,
and midway between London and Southend ; the high
road to the latter fashionable and improving watering-
place runs through the estate. The manor, from which a
considerable yearly income is derived, extends over nearly
one thousand seven hundred acres.

Particulars are in preparation, and may be had, twenty-
eight days prior to the sale, of Mr. Forbes, Solicitor,
Ely-place ; of Mr. B. C. Taylor, Land Surveyor, Carlton
Chambers ; and of Mr. W. W. Simpson, 24, Bucklers-
bury, and 8, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street.

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A young man named John Hall, a labourer, came
to the Justice-room, and told the Loral MAYOR that
he had been recently liberated from prison, to which
he had been consigned because an official person
happened to make a mistake, and that although he
had been falsely imprisoned, permission to depart was
.not given to him until he contrived to pay a guinea
fee to the aforesaid official person.
• The LORD MAYOR desired to hear all the circum-
stances, as nothing could be more important to the
public than a disclosure of the facts of such a case.

The applicant said, that before the last Old Bailey
Sessions he had been, in conjunction with another
man, whose name was Wooddin, bound over in the
sum of 401., to prosecute a female who had robbed
him of his watch. They accordingly appeared at
the Old Bailey, and gave evidence, and the woman
Was convicted and sentenced to , he transported for
' seven years. The applicant's watch was handed
over to him, and he received IL 16s. to defray the
expences he had been put to. Hiswitness also received
the amount of his expenses, and they-considered that
the business was entirely at an end, and rettuned to
their work. The applicant was not, however, long
occupied when a sheriff's officer tapped him on the
shoulder, told him that his recognizances had
been estreated in the Exchegit.., and that he
must either pay the amount for which he was
made responsible, at once, or go to prison.—
The man's poverty left him no alternative, and he
was locked up in Whitccross-streetprison. By some
accident Mr. Barrett, the governor of the prison,
learned that Hall, was confined for a debt which he
never had incurred, and having been iuformed by
him of _,the particulars, went to the officer of the
clerk of :the peace for the county of Middlesex, and
represented that the man had not violated his bond,
but had: punctually appeared to prosecute. Upon
this repteSentation an order was sent to the prison
to discharge the applicant. " But," said the poor
man too:the Lord Mayor, " I 'was not allowed to
-stir unfilj managed to raise a guinea, by pawning
'the iier'S,',l watch the woman had stolen froth me, to
pay the clerk of the peace his fee."
The Aonn MAYOR, who could not believe but
that this statement was exceedingly exaggerated,
immediately sent for Mr. Barret, in order to heal
the version Qf a disinterested man upon the subject.
Mr. Rarret, in answer to the Lord Mayor, who
asked whether ,it was possible that there could be
any truth in the account, produced the warrant for
keeping' Hall in safe custody, from which it ap-
peared 'that the man had been a Prisoner for eight
days for liothing.
The f,orto _MAYOR asked what had occasioned
the arrest of the poor man ?
Mr.l34rett said he understood, from -the Clerk of
the Peace for Middlesex (Mr. Selby, the: deputy of
Mr. Alln);that Hall and the other witnesses,
against ‘Vhom it was believed another process had
issued,Pitid been mistaken for two • other persons,
who had been bound over to prosecute in another
case, buf.had not appeared, according to the terms
of the bond. He (Mr. Barrett) had represented
the extreme hardship to which the young man bad
been subjected; but he received directions not to
discharge Hall until the usual fee of one guinea
should be paid. It was in vain he stated the in-
justice of the punishment which the man had suf-
fered; it was still considered that he ought, in jus-
tice, to pay the fee; and the clerk, when told of
the extreme impediment of poverty as stopping the
way, asked whether there was not a charitable fund
connected with the prison, by which the man could
be assisted to pay the amount. Creditors of this
description, however, were not those to whom any
funds for the benefit of poor debtors were likely to
be paid.
The LORD MAYOR—And who is chargeable with
the mistake by which this man was plunged into
prison ? Mr. Barrett said, he did not know that any
one was chargeable, except somebody in the office
of the Clerk of the Peace.

The LORD MAYOR—And so, notwithstanding the
injury the man has received from being taken away
from his work and confined in a gaol for nothing,
the Clerk of the Peace for Middlesex thinks pro-
per to demand to be paid for giving him such a
lodging.
Hall said, that care had been taken to make him
pay the fee; but he had suffered still greater injury.
His master, when he was liberated, told him it must
be for something wrong that he had been confined,
and refused to give him any mere employment; so
that he was now in a destitute condition.

The LORD MAYOR said that the case was a very
desperate one, and proved, as strongly as any thing
he ever heard of, the necessity of a revision. It
was an act altogether of the most monstrous in-
justice. His Lordship desired to know from Mr.
Hobler whether the Act of Parliament sanctioned
the fee in question.

Mr. Hot)ler said he believed it was mentioned in
one of the by-laws ; but Mr. Shelton, the late Clerk
of the Peace for the City of London, never con-
sidered himself justified in taking such a fee, and
therefore never made any demand of the kind.
The LORD MAYOR again strongly expressed him-
self on the subject of the fee, and asked Mr. Iloblcr
whether the applicant could not have a remedy in
a Court of Law.

Mr. Hobler said the error was evidently an
official one, whatever might be said of the demand
of the fee. Mr. Shelton considered the fee certainly
illegal.
The LORD MAYOR-It is monstrous that this
poor man should have no redress after having suffer-
ed so seriously. As for the fee, I never heard of
such a demand in my life. What ! demand, and
absolutely compel, the payment of a fee for com-
mitting an error which has cost a man his liberty,
and the means of supporting life ! It is most
shameful.

In the course of the conversation on this subject
it was stated that Hall, upon receiving the order for
the payment of his expences, was called upon for
two other fees. Half-a-crown to one person, and
two shillings as discount upon the amount of the
expences to another, who wore a black gown, and
immediately addressed him upon finding that the
Court ordered his expences.
The LORD MAYOR said, that this discount extor-
tion was a practice of very common occurrence in
the Old Bailey, but it had been found very difficult
to detect those who were guilty of it. He was de-
termined that this instance should not pass with im-
punity, provided the party could be identified,
Hall said fie—should know him any where.
His LORDSHIP then sent for Mr. Richardson, one
of the Under-sheriffs, and requested that he would
inquire into the matter.

Mr. Richardson said, the practice was, although
most culpable, a most common one, and that he
should at once institute the necessary inquiry. He
had upon a former occasion ascertained that one of
the officers of the Court had carried the system to
an extreme 'indeed. A gentleman of the medical
profession had given evidence on a trial at the Old
Bailey, and was accidentally informed that he was
entitled to two guineas, having attended two days.
He found, upon applying at Mr. Shelton's office,
that the money had been received by one of the
officers of the Court, through the instrumentality
of a forged receipt. The case was mentioned to the
Court of Aldermen, and the officer vas at once dis-
charged from his situation.
• Mr. Nobler.—Now, if that fellow had been pro-