The paper bore no signed articles; but judging from an attack levelled against it in a pamphlet of the following year, [7] Fielding and his former not very worshipful partner in the Haymarket management, James Ralph, were the reputed "authors," Ralph being in a subordinate position. Thus, it is stated that Ralph, "is now say'd to be the 'Squire of the _British_ CHAMPION"; the writer identifies _Captain Vinegar_ and the author of _Pasquin_ as one and the same person; he describes Pasquin and Ralph as the "Authors of the Champion"; he asserts that the old Roman statues of Pasquin and Marfario, "are now dignified and distinguished (by The CHAMPION and his doughty Squire RALPH), under the Names [_sic_] of Captain Hercules Vinegar."; he prints an address to the "_Self-dubb'd Captain_ Hercules Vinegar," and his "Man _Ralph_"; and appends some doggerel verse entitled "Vinegar and his gang." But from all this nothing definite emerges as to the precise part taken by Fielding in the authorship of the _Champion_. The pamphleteer accredits a fragment of a paper signed C. to the _Captain_, and attributes two papers, [8] signed C. and L., to "Mr Pasquin"--_i.e._ Fielding; and as the reprint of the _Champion_, which appeared in 1741, announces that all papers so signed are the "Work of one Hand," there is so much external proof that all such pages in these volumes (numbering some sixty essays) are by Fielding. Dr Nathan Drake, writing in 1809, more than sixty years after the appearance of the paper, asserts, without stating his reasons, that the numbers marked "C." and "L." "were the work of Fielding." This view is further supported by the opinion of Mr Austin Dobson, that many of the papers signed _C._ "are unmistakably Fielding's."