none other than the Apologist, who, after many entreaties, is finally compelled to part with his treasure. "I was surprized," continues Fielding, "to see him pass Examination with his Laurel on, and was assured by the Standers by, that _Mercury_ would have taken it off, if he had seen it." These attacks in the _Champion_ do not appear to have received any direct response from Cibber. But they were reprinted in a rambling production issued from "Curll's chaste press" in 1740, and entitled the _Tryal of Colley Cibber, Comedian, &c._ At the end of this there is a short address to "the _Self-dubb'd Captain_ Hercules Vinegar, _alias_ Buffoon," to the effect that "the malevolent Flings exhibited by him and his Man _Ralph_," have been faithfully reproduced. Then comes the following curious and not very intelligible "Advertisement:"-- "If the Ingenious _Henry Fielding_ Esq.; (Son of the Hon. Lieut. General _Fielding_, who upon his Return from his Travels entered himself of the _Temple_ in order to study the Law, and married one of the pretty Miss _Cradocks of Salisbury_) will _own_ himself the AUTHOR of 18 strange Things called Tragical _Comedies_ and Comical _Tragedies_, lately advertised by _J. Watts_, of _Wild-Court_, Printer, he shall be _mentioned_ in Capitals in the _Third_ Edition of Mr. CIBBER'S _Life_, and likewise be placed _among_ the _Poetae minores Dramatici_ of the Present Age: Then will both his _Name and Writings be remembered on Record_, in the immortal _Poetical Register_ written by Mr. GILES JACOB."