Certain circumstances, to which the author of the foregoing piece was
an utter stranger, having happened about the time of its publication,
and given rise to rumours equally false and foreign to the party; it
appears that Roscius, or some of his friends, was pleased to insert
the following queries in the Morning Chronicle of July 2d.
"Candour presents her compliments to Mr.----, she begs his
pardon,---- to Dr.---- _Kenrick_, and desires to ask him a few
simple questions; to which, if he be the _Plain-dealer_ he
pretends, he will give a plain and direct answer.
_Query_ I. Whether you are not the author of the eclogue,
entitled, _Love in the Suds_, as well as of the letter prefixed to
it?
II. Whether you did not mean, though you have artfully evaded the
law, by affecting the translation of a classical cento, to throw
out the most scandalous insinuations against the character of
Roscius?
III. Whether you were not likewise the author of an infamous,
anonymous paragraph in a public paper; for which that paper is
under a just prosecution?
IV. Whether you have not openly acknowledged notwithstanding, that
you really entertained a very different opinion of Roscius?
V. Whether any cause of dispute, that might subsist between you
and Roscius, can authorize so cruel, so unmanly an attack?
VI. Whether the brother of Roscius did not personally wait on you
to require, in his name, the satisfaction of a gentleman, which
you refused him?