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Instead of _candidly_ replying, however, to the above three queries, a
very difficult task, indeed, to Roscius, he caused the Court of King's
Bench to be moved for a rule to shew cause, why leave should not be
given him to file an information against the author for a libel: which
being granted of course, the same was exultingly announced in the
following paragraphs inserted in all the news-papers:
"Yesterday morning Mr. Dunning made a motion in the Court of King's
Bench, for a rule to shew cause why an information should not be laid
against the author of Love in the Suds. When the court was pleased to
grant a rule for the first day of next term. The poem was read in
court by the Clerk of the Crown, and afforded no small diversion when
it came to that part which reflects upon a certain Chief Justice, who
was present all the time.
"Besides Mr. Wallace and Mr. Dunning, who are employed by great actor,
in his prosecution of some detestable charges which have been lately
urged with _as much folly as wickedness_ against his character, Mr.
Murphy and Mr. Mansfield are also engaged, and the cause now becomes a
matter of much expectation with the publick."
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To these paragraphs the author judged it necessary to make the
following reply, in the above-mentioned Morning Chronicle; almost all
the rest of the news-papers, by the indefatigable industry and
powerful influence of Roscius, a proprietor in most of them, being
shut against him.
The AUTHOR of LOVE in the SUDS to the PRINTER of the MORNING
CHRONICLE.