The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-02 00:00:00

SOUTHWOLD, Nov.

In consequence of the continued wind from the N. W.
during the last week, the feiv remaining visitors of this de-
lightful spot were this morning on foot at an early hour,
to witness the effects of one of the heaviest swells within
the recollection-of- the-oklest inhabitants. A considerable
portion of the Gun Hill has been levelled with the beach,
and of the substantial boat-house belonging to the Preven-
tive station, not even a vestige of the foundation remains,
and the boats completely stove. Along the whole beach
the cottages and boat-houses of the poor fishers have been
precipitately deserted, and, during the whole night, their
tenants were actively engaged in removing their little pro-
perty, and securing their boats, bathing-machines, &c., by
dragging them up the face of the low cliff, which runs in
front of the town.

The injury to these poor men will, we fear, be conside-
rable ; but it is between the Gun Hill and the entrance
to the harbour, that the most serious effects of the en-
croachment of the sea are observable, it having, in that.
direction, made a clear breach over the beach, and laid a
large part of the marshes entirely under water, leaving the
baths and other buildings in that direction, accessible only
to the hardy youth who will venture to plunge into the
newly formed lake, in pursuit of his nets or the broken re-
mains of his boat, on which rested his dependence fur a
precarious subsistence during the approaching winter.
This visitation is the niers awful in appearance from the
wind blowing, as has been the case, for some days steadily
off shore, and consequently the numerous traders are seen
passing and repassm g in perfect security, at less than half
a mile distance.
Should the evening tide be attended with as heavy a
swell, which there seems even- reason to apprehend, as the
wind does not moderate, the injury to the property about
the Gun Hill, and the cottages under the Cliff, will be still
more serious, and the Preventive Watch-house will most
probably follow the fate of its Boat-house.

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3 per Cent. Red. 86% ti ;
3 per Cent. Cons. 87%1"2 , ,
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1 per Cent. New lO2 ,iNd,4 1
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Austrian Bondi, 5 per rent
Brazilian Bonds 6114 I
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Bonds, 6 per ct. -
-Colombian Bonds
bitt., it 24 9.7N
;Danish, 3 per rent. 6,1%
'Greek Bonds
Ditto, 1925
Cluatimala
Alexican Bonds . 42 14
Do. 1925 51%

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appalling verdict, damages one farthing, or one
shilling, according to the respectability of the
parties. The mountain in labour was nothing
t° such a scene. The sound falls so deadly
upon the heart that the plaintiff at that moment
is almost tempted to wish she (or he, as the case
may be) had no character at all. In such
a dilemms the consolation of friends only
embitters the chagrin it is meant Co alleviate.
We do
allude to the
not, of course, in these observations,
present case ; it stands upon its
own the
merits. We only glance at what
We hare seen repeatedly in Court, where the
Judge has been heard to say, in an under tone,
that it was « a foolish proceeding altogether, and
Only made matters worse ;" and this, we think,
the Plaintiff's themselves too often say, when a
"anal verdict assures them it is too late.
But the unfortunate prevalence of actions for
alleged Libel at length begins to work its
own cure.
aPcte see the
he drift of the thing,
and Juries
People
singldA man of no cha-
racter cannot purchase much for a farthing, and
a man
of character will not readily
hazard his
.
reputation fond shilling-
We leave not space, _uor,,if we had, are we dis-
posed to enter into the mass of matter- involved
in tip;
‘• question between the Commissioners and
LEAVALoNT, nor between Mr. BEAUMONT
anda Mr. LYE—the first being in course of in-
vestigation, and the other resting between the
Parties interested. Mr. BEAUMONT wrote three
letters, and Mr. LYE one in answer, and for
the publication of these the present action was
brought. But the great novelty o f the case
consists in bringing an action for copying
the alleged libel from the Report of the Com-
mittee of the House of Commons—a document
as accessible to the public as the Statutes at
Lam,
be If the Committee produced a libellous
Re
port,
ort, the
.House of Commons were wrong in
Satietioning it by their approval, and still more so
by ordering it to be printed. That Report when
"Ce Printed and circulated to the Public, was
tPh4blie Property, and free to be dealt with as such by
pee News Papers as any other of the Parliamentary
:Prs.
But Mr. BROUGHAM says, rather un-
chisedly, we
hope, that the Newspapers are not to
publish
ari apart without the whole, that is, to perform
• ilu
suchNssibility, for what paper could contain
• a voluminous document as four or six hun-
dred folio pages ? He might as well say that a
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tati who had a beef steak for dinner ought to
ithe ,
'Mole
t carcase, in order to do justice to
animal.abother
But Mr. BROUGHAM touched
chord still more tender in the harp
of Public liberty he said that the publication
C°ne •of his own speeches in the House of
or,—
uvons, on presenting a certain petition,
is a
4-4bel
• --if so, we shall be deprived of many splen-
did
tie Specimens of the Hen. and Learned Gen-
elman's intellectual vigour and overwhelming
os
• ittehee. But we hope that this calamity will
not
--we to pass •
in our day, and posterity will
i:e reason to thank us if we do not bequeath
Present monstrosity of the Law of Libel.