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? CANDOUR." To these queries, the author judged it expedient to make the following reply in the same paper of July 4th. To CANDOUR. MADAM, "Though I think your signature a misnomer, to shew that I a no stranger to the name and quality you assume, I shall not stand on the punctilio of your being an _anonymous_ querist; but answer your several questions explicitly. I. I am the author of the eclogue you mention. II. I did not mean to throw out the _most_ scandalous insinuations on the character of Roscius, nor any insinuation _more_ scandalous than his conduct. How far that has been so, he knows best, and is left to make the application. III. An _infamous_ paragraph I _cannot_ write; and an _anonymous_ one I _will not_ write, to prejudice my greatest enemy. As to that in question, I have not, to this hour, even seen it. CALUMNY I _detest_; but I think _vice_ should be exposed to _infamy_, nor have I so much _false delicacy_ as to conceive, it should be treated with _tenderness_ in proportion as it is _abominable_. IV. I have not acknowledged that I entertain a _very different_ opinion of Roscius; on the contrary, I declare, that I entertain a _very indifferent_ opinion of him. V. As to the cause of our dispute, I should be very ready to submit it to the publick, were I egotist enough to think it deserved their attention.