Workington.
_Periodical Literature_, 1707.--
"The author of the _Observator_ is MR. RIDPATH, y^e author of the
_Flying Post_. The base author of the late paper, which has been some
time since dropp'd, viz. _The Observator Reviv'd_, was one PEARCE, an
exchange broker, some time since concerned in the paper called
_Legion's Address_, and forced to fly on that account into Holland. The
publisher of the _Phoenix_ is a Presbyterian bookseller, named J.
Darby, in Bartholomew Close, who has told me that he was chiefly
assisted therein by the famous MR. COLLINS, the supposed author of _The
Use of Reason in Propositions_, &c., and Dr. Tindal's familiar
acquaintance."--_Original Letter of the Rev. Robert Watts, M.A._, dated
London, Feb. 6. 1707-8.