The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-07-09 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF cIIANCERT, Luicours :5.44._
TIOURSIMIN JOLT I.

This was the first Seal As, after Tern.
EARL DIGIT. IN TUB MATTER OF NKR GRACE TUC
DUCUF3II •ONAGER or mostuut, A I.IMATIC

Mr. WINGFILLD stated. he lied irs hired wf llis
Lordship to allow him to mention a Petition in tors
lunacy. lie was aware it was contrary to the r.. 1
laid down by hi• tordsslisp. but 14. !roofed S. e
emergency of the case would be statfiriesat aroe,izv
for the liberty he hail taken. Tin! Mosier its.i
ported dint a Mr. Price bad become the piireliss-r
of a certatu I►iete of land belonging to
What he had hi so-le of hi. Lorshslitis wn+ to sisdi„,,
an order. coo& eee e.g the llsreter's report, so as to
enable the C 00000 (hitter of the blown.. to ree.-ure the
pu►chase moury, for the purpose of resie.ailing the
loud tax of the estates of the noble lunatic.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—." Take the order."
LISLE O. WHITE.
This was a motion fur 3 orw it 641 of on ;sane eli.
mord by that Court, which was tried at the last
tucliroer Assize+. The (pest ion rrla,es to tithe.,
and is of Me general It come berme 11
Lordship ■a all Timms, froM the judgment of lit.
Honour the Vice-Chancelior, who refuted to grant
a new trial.

His Lordship wits occupied anti! holf-psst three
o'clock in henrong Ihr arguments of Colon,.*-1—
Messrs. WETHERELL, MOORE, end DOWPES.
Wind., for the siplication; 91111 MerSros. TRoWytt,
GASELEE, VIA TIN ET. it, raid Milt
hour without giving his judgineut.

VICE.CHANCELLOWS COOKT, IllaceLa's-lies,
Tuvalu:oar. JULY S.
a-

The Court was occupied the whole of the day in
hearing causes, of uo interest except to the parties
concerned.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WEsTiantsna,
THURSDAY, JULY b.

Sittings after Hilary Term. before Chit,' Justice
Almon, and Coustion Juries.

LIBEL

TEA3DALE v. CLEMENT.

Mr. GURNBIi stated that the Plaintiff in this
action sought to recover damages front the Defen-
dant for a gross libel on his character, which hail
appeared in The Observer Sunday Newsoper, of
winch Mr. Clemeut is Proprietor. The circum-
stances of the case were briefly these:—The
Plaintiff is one of the beadles of the parish of
St. Pancras, and also carries on the trade of
butcher. In the month of October list, he was
proceeding i 3 Smithfield Market, when he observed
two men, of the muses of Arnett and Moore. car-
rying a sack, which appeared to he filled with some
heavy substance. Knowing those persons to be
men of suspicious character, the Plaintiff requested
a man named Smith to moist him in stopping them.
Arnett and Moore were secured, and on opeiliiig
the sack. it was found to contain a unman
body. The resurrection-men were conveyed to
Hatton-garden. where they underwent
.an exami-
nation before the late Mr. Leech, who sent thein to
prison. The PI Mita then inquired of Mr. I.sech
what he was to do with the dead body ? and was
directed, as no person claimed it, to take it to Sur-
geons' Hall. lie went there, in consequence, and
was informed that it would riot be taken in at the
hill—but that the porter should be sent for it.
The porter did cull for it—to him it was deliver. 41
—and he took it to St. Thomas's Hospital. Ott
the Sanday following a most extraordinary account
of the transaction appeared in The Observer. It
was there stated, that Mr. Teesdale had tittered tlisy
body for sale at Surgeons' Hull--sand, as lie could,
and no purchaser fur it there, he carried it to St.
Thomas's Hospital, and sold it to the potter for
it pound, by whom it was re-sold to his masters fur 41.
1u consequence of this false statement, the Plaintiffs
holm had been, for several successive days. stir.
ronnded by a mob, who abused him as a dealer itt
human flesh, and his customers refused to purchase
meat from hum any longer. (king almost ruined
by the libellous report which had been thus props-
pled, the Plaintiff sought, by this action, to char
his character from the stigma that had hero cast
upon it, and, at the same , to recover a reason-
able compensation in damages fur the injury he
had sustained.

The necessary proof that the Defendant was pie.
prietor of The Observer, and of the publication of
the libel, having been given-
-- .Smith was called, who !proved the circum-
stance% as stated in Mr. Gurney's opening.
On his cross-examination by Mr. PLAT?, wit-
ness stated, that the Plaintiff* had already receive,'
101. from the Proprietor of The ideraing CLrowick,
to stay proceedings fur the same libel, which had
been inetittsted against him.
Chief Justice ABBOTT, observed, that one of the
averments in the declaration was, " that the Plain-
tiff had taken the body to Surgeons' Hall," *litchi
averment had not been made out in evidence ; on the
contrary, it appeared that the porter was stilt free►
Surgeons' Hall to carry away the body. This de-
fect, he conceived to be fatal—and be therefore
directed the Plaintiff to be called.
Plaintiff Nonsuited.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Witsttionut,
'neviummr, ittx t.

Sittings after Hilary Term, before Chief Janice
DALLAS.
SREACiI OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
SQUISKILIISLI. a. SAIIIPSYLDS.
Sorjesist Lisa awed that the Plaintiff in
tide case:Azatig Lady of a reeprctable Forowls
family, to recover • tounpeination in dr-
wages froth fief Ltefendatit, who ass a surgeon iu
the army, for' a breach of profane of iiiesrseace.
Mies Beimileiaall mane la ibis comsat, with her
sant, a of the ammo of Daher, shoat the
yaw laid. Voided together at • hews its
•Robert.ifteeet;' w, in which the flefri,.
`afoul Oro hinged, and hone uu insiniecy coinair,seeit
between than. which ended iu the Deivissiewee
waking an raequiversl of las hand to ilia
;Honing wise, a. Mr. boupprylde was iiese,ssit,..;
front on alnico% quid
.boo•rable fori4. Of mit%