The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-05-18 00:00:00

TEIF.DALE r. W. J. CLEMENT, ESQ.

This was an action against the proprietor of The Observer
Newspaper, for an alleged libel, imputing to the Plaintiff,
a comitable"of the parish of St. Pancras, improper conduct
respecting the disposal of a dead body, which had been
taken from the possession of certain persons apprehended
by the Pla,ntil,and brought before a Magistrate on a charge
of unlawfully stealing the same, for the purpose of selling
it for surgical dissection.
On a' former trial the Plaintiff was nommited, upon an
objection taken to the pleadings. It appeared that the
alleged libel was copied from a Daily Paper into The Ob-
server, as a matter of ordinary intelligence. The Plaintiff
bad received a compensation of SOL from the Proprietor of
the Paper in which the supposed libel first appeared, and he
now brought his action against Mr. Clement.
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The Jury, after hearing the argument.. and observations
of the Learned Judge, found their verdict fur the Plaintiff—
Damages, SOL

Among the distinguished fashionables present at
the King's Theatre on Tuesday night, we noticed
the following :
Earl and Countess of Sarrey, General Bligh, Duchess of
Buccleach, Lord Howard, &al and Countess of Wemyss,
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Orby Hunter, Sir Chas.
AsKill, Lord and Lally Shannon, COUllirlll of Powis, Lady
Smith, Count and Countess St. Antonio, Lord ■nd Lady
Scarborough, Sir Chukka Oglr, Marchioness of Salisbury,
Marchioness of Anglesey, Lady Templeton, Lord Melbourne,
Sir Wm. Johnson, Countess of Sefton, Lord and Lady
Ahoyne, the Misses Sync Sir W. W. Wynn, Countess
Cowper, Lady Brownlow, Hon. Mr. Stanhope, Lord Cranky,
Lady Dudley and Ward, Hon. Mrs. Lyon, Lord Cousins
and the Ladies Brudenell, Sir John and Lady Codrington,
Lady Catharine Poulett, Countess of'Sbaftesbury, Marquis
of Winchester, Francis Frceliug, Eft ; Earl of Murky,
Lady Owen, Sir Chattel Flint, Sir C. Bamfylde, sir Lumley
St. George Skellington, Sir H. Wright Wilson, sir John
Owen, Lord and Lady Breadalbane, Luca Lowther, Lurd
Cranbortro lily J. Leach, Endo( Idistsdale, 31. (Jr.. EN M.P.,
Colonel Netwielit,Countess of Craven, Duchess of A. gyll and
the Wiest Paget, Earl Grusveemr, Miss Vernon, Princess
Esterhaay, Earl of Sefton, Lady there, Earl uf Ailesbury,
&c. 4c. dcc.

VIRGINIA—THE NEW TRAGEDY.—Thefollow—
ing is a list of those already written on the same
subject, by English Authors, in one of which GAR,.
RICK Wa► the hero :
Appius and Virginia : a Traci-Comedy, Anno, 1575.
Appian end Virginia: a Tragedy, by Jolw Webster, 1619.
Unjust Judge; ur, Appias sad Vitalism; id. Thomas
Beim ton, 11394.
A ppius and Virginia; id. John Dennis, 1709.
Vi. Riots; 1.1 Creop, 1751.
*ppm% ; iii. Juba Momeriei, 1755.
Virginia; id. Brookes, 1756.
There is also another tragedy on the same subject,
in ltaliau, writen by Count A Lat Eat, of which the
new piece is said to be a trans:Atini.
SUICIDE.—A man, rejected in his addresses by a
young woman, 5.1 irrcproactiable character, in
Allen's-court, Long Millgate, Alanciiester. on Ss-
sterility night the 49th ult. shut himself through the
head will, is pistol, clo►e to toe home 11( the young
women. Upon the Coroner'. I.:gut-et. the Jury,
without Imitation, found a verdict of Lawry.