When the notion of establishing The Athenian Mercury occurred to Dunton, he sought Sault's aid as joint editor and contributor.
Wesley, clerk, Richard Sault, gent., and John Dunton, for the writing the Athenian Gazette, or Mercury, dated April 10, 1691.
Sault was reputed to be a gentleman of courage and passion, and on one occasion about to draw his sword on Tom Brown, one of the editors of a rival publication, the Lacedemonian Mercury.
In February 1695 the programme of a projected scheme of a new royal academy stated that the mathematics would be taught in Latin, French, or English by Sault and Abraham De Moivre.
The preface to Dunton's volume was signed by Sault's initials, and the genuineness of the information supplied was attested by many witnesses.