Note 224 — [STEELE AND ADDISON.218
Reading edition
The Tory Postboy was published by Abel Roper; and the Whig Flying Post by George Ridpath:
"There Ridpath, Roper, cudgelled might ye view, The very worsted still looked black and blue."
("Dunciad," ii. 149.) It is remarkable that both Roper and Ridpath died on the same day, Feb. 5, 1726. Swift and others sometimes contributed to Roper's paper for party purposes.