The Sun.
London, England, 1808-07-11 00:00:00

MeIIiGATE, JULY 7.

Yesterday. an occurrence took place here, which
created some alarm at the time, but, fortunately
terminated without
.any serious consequences;- the
bathing-machine belonging -to the Sea-bathing In-
.-firthary, gOingnut. with four men and nine or ten
boys, having arrived at its proper depth, tnd the
driver being in the 114 of turning the machine round
towards the shore, tile of the tore-ltheels gat fast
upon the lock, and rendered the machine imtnova-.
ble: The driver perceiving the situation he was in,
and the, tide at the time trial;ing rapidly upwards,
immediately gave the alarm to the•tenants of his ve-
hicle, all of whom were already stripped for ablu-
tion ; but, on the alarm, of course made the best
of their-way, the men assisting the children. The'
driver fortunately succeeded'in releasing his horses,
and also rendered material assistance in recovering
the clothes left in the machine. A blue-coat boy
(of whom there are nine' in the 4nfirmarv), of about
ten years old, being on shore, and seeing the 'dan-
ger,simmediately stripped his livery, plunged into the
waves, brought brie boy out, and materially assisted in
rescuing another: in faa, the only mischief which
accrued was the loss of a few trifling articles of wear--
ing apparel, as many articles dritted up with the
tide, and were left on the shore, as did also the ma-
chine itself.• .•

SALE OF WlVES.—This' very shameful traffic has
lately become so prevalent amongst the lower or-
ders, as to call for some measure to establish not
only the immorality but the illegality of the act.
During the last week the following c4ses have been
reported to us :
'A Shoemaker of the name of Smith, residing at
Kensington Gravel PitS, some days since sold -his
wife in Smithfield for five sheilings ; he employed a
salesman on the occasion, to whom he paid half-a-
_crown, and whose certificate of the transfer Crispin
'ignorantly considers as a legal divorce.
A Jew, residing in Petticoat-lane, on Friday sold
his wife' in Smithfield-market, with thd• customary
appendage of a-halter, to an Irish labourer, for three
shillings. _ •
'Another of these disgraceful contracts took place
'al Billingsgate on Friday evening, when a Weaver
in Spitalfields sold his wife to a Newcastle sailor for
pint of gin and a gallon of porter. The 'weaver
got drunk on the occasion, and fell into the Drick,
where it is probable he would Irve been drowned
but fur the exertions of the sailor.

A singular occurrence took place with the Edin-
burgh mail-coach, on Tuesday last. A Gentleman
having a,gun-case,'hadipersudded the servants of the
coach to place' it behind. the Coachman's seat,' to
prevent its rubbing. They had not proceeded far
from Newark, wherelhe passengers dine; whedohe
of the outsides, who sat upon the roof, stnc*ing his
pipe; the ernbecs fell on tho gun-cage; which was
wrapped itta Gnat, containing underit three pounds
of gun-p?wder, in separate parcels, one of which
exploded, .and blew the man frontoff the roof, and
the driver;and 'another on the box, precipitately into
the road. The guard, with praise-worthy •exetlion,
stopped the horse, and proceeded to cut away-the
gun-case, being told by the passengers there was
more powder ; when another pound blew up, "and
on getting it oil to the ground, the third exploded ;
fortunately no other injury was sustained than the
Coacnnian spraining his' aucle and the guard bUrning
hip band.

Yesterday a man, in consequence of a decree in
Dalors' Commons,. stood in a white sheet, in St.
Andrew's Church, Holborn, for defaming the good
naine.of the landlady of a public-house, in Hatcon-
-6: oarden.

•
It is scarcely possible another_ day's drawing can
pass over without a capital Prize being drawn.. Six
of 20,0001. besides Tens, Fives, Twos, Ones, and
FiVe.Flundreds, and the usual proportion of smaller
Prizes, are such as never existed before in any Lot-
tery. TicketS•and Shares are selling .by HoIINSBY
and Co. warranted undrawn ; also `rickets at 22i. Gs.
tor which, if. undrawn . to-morrow, the purchaser
may receive 231. Gs. atter the 4th day 241. 6s. and
after the .sth day 251..65.—Nu. 26, Cat-until, 52,
,Charing-cross; and St; Margaret's Hill, Borough.

HIGH ‘vATlii. AT LONDONBRIDGE TO-MOP.

li,() W.

Morning, 45 win, after 4-..-1-Atiernoon, 3: min. after 5.

LAIC REPORT,

COURT OF k.ING', TULY

LIBEL.
curAubr, v. REEVE.

Mr. GARROW sated, that this was, an action
brought by an Attorney of-,this Cotart, "foe a' gross
and scandalous libel. He then enlarged upon the
injury such Gentlemen were likely to sustain by
any-aspersions being thrOwn out against, their, cha-
racter, there be'aig generally a prepd,ice existing in
the.publie mind, owing to their having to struggle
with the worst passions and habits of mankind;---;
The present Plaietiff had prai'tised with great re-
putation for a considerable number
_of gears, at
AilesWorth, in the county.Of Suffolk., He happen.-
ed to have a lady fora client, a Mrs. Love, of 75
years of age, who having an estate she wished to
dispose of, employed him to tratAad the sale 'of it.
It being thought that the tenant, the father of the
. Defendant, then in possession., had deteriorated the
estate, by negleoling it, she direoted an action to
be brought against him for damages. The -manag
ing of that process was all the conneCtion. which
the Plaintiff had with the Defendant, or his father;
yet the Defendant, who was a Gentleman in the
army, wrote a very violent letter to this old lady, in
which bespoke of this Attorney as follows :
" I dare say you will be- surprised at receiving a
letter from me, but the-Motive which urges me to
Write is to express my astonishment at your having
commenced such an action against my father,' who,
so litr from baring injured your farms, nasiMproved
them. As to the Attorney you have employed, I
am at liberty to address you, not as his friend, but
as.his implacable. enemy, from, his conduct to my
father. You always expressed yourself satisfied;
but now,, in return for my 'father's putting a few
hundredi into your pocket, you and' your Attorney
are inclined toile4e him and his faintly ; but I am
rather disposed to think it is your Attorney, or some.
-weak person, that has advised you to such a proceed:
lug; although I 'must say, that he ,has more vice:
than weakness; for. never did nature stamp upoibt
the visage of one of that profession so much theap-
pearance- of a petty logger as on_ the person you
have,emjiloyed. I have no doubt fie 'is inclined
upon all occasions to ath like a spark, and will de-'
your any man's property, no matter Who,-provided
it brings grist to his mill. I shall not waste any
more ink upon to foul a subject. But shall only
add,.k wish to make myself known to the grinning
He (Mr. GAnaow) remembered an action hav-
ing been brought, and damages being obi-tilled,
against 'a person, for calling an attorney a daffy
down dilly, which,-like the present i6tanee, meant
a ,low fellow, or petty fogger. Mrs. Love, imme-
diately upon receiving this letter, sent it to the
Plaintiff, Who sent a person to remonstrate with
the De!endarit, but he persisted that every thing it ,
contained was true.

Witnesses were called to corroborate the facts.

The ATTORNFiy-GtNEtiAL, for the Defendant,
did not entirely justify the writing of such-a letter,
but argued, that the Plaintiff had taken a strange
way of justifying his chara&er; by delaying, Mr the
space.of . two years, to bring any anion, and then
bringing it in the Court of Westminster, instead of
a Conn- in sotrulk, where the injury Of any) was
alleL.ged to have been s,istaineci. It we also
go.al, that the Plaintiff had not thought proper to
produce the. judgment obtained by Mrs. L&e
against the father of the-Defendant, to prove, by the
amount of the damages given; that it was well.
founded.- Froth this
.not having been done, he -was
entitled
_to infer, that no damages, or that only no-.
mitial damageshad been given ; and, therefore, that
the -Plaintiff was convinced thai that ai:tion was not
originally justifiable.
The July returned a lierdia for the Plaintiff--
Damages 6.1. _ _