Bowring, vol. X, p. 396 : Bentham à Eden, 4 sept

36. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 362-363 : Romilly à Bentham, 8 avril 1801.

37. Bowring, vol. X, p. 186. Il s'agit des réformes de la Cour de Chancellerie. Mais Bentham déclare, d'autre part (Indications concerning lord Eldon, sect. XIX, Bowring, vol. V, p. 370) : To Romilly, with that secresy which prudence dictated, my works, such, as they are, were from first to last, a text-book... Not a reformatiuncle of his (as Hartley would hâve called it) did Romilly ever bring forward, that he had not first brought to me, and conned over with me. One of them — that in which Paley's love of arbitrary power was laid open — was borrowed from my spiders, under whose coveriug they may still be found. The project so successfully

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38. Bnwriiu!, vol. X, pp. 427-428, Dumont a Ilentham, 3 nov. 1807 : 1 hâve laboured hard. 1 bave revised Ihe whole Pénal Code, which stood in greal need of it. A part Iranglaled — a part abridged, before 1 was Completel) mas 1er or my Benlhamic System. Romilly read a good deal or it in llie Isle of Wight, and îs very much pleased. His approbation bas given me spirit. He deems the publication most imjiorlaiit, and says it willawaken public attention. — Komilly, Memoirx, vol. II, p. 238. 1 passed Ihe vacalionnlinostentirely at knill, (i. Wilsonand Dumont spenlagreat pari of it with us, nnd accompanied as in avery delighlfultown down theWye, Dumont brou«hl witli him to Knill several MSS of Bentham'a which he is translaling and arranging, in order lo publisli them, as a continuation of Ihe work of which he bas already printed Ihree volumes. One of them, a trealise on punishments, appears to me to hâve a very extraordinary merit, and to be likely to he more popular than most of Bentham's writings, and to produce vptj good eflecls. I strongly exhorled Dumont to finish it withoul delay, and to publish il, if possible, in the ensuing wjnter ; and he has promised lo do so. Since Ihe work of Beccaria, nothing bas appeared on the subject of Cri mi nul Law which lias made a ny impression on the publie. This work will, I think, probally make a very deep impression.— Itomilly, Jfemoirs, vol. Il, p. 391 ; 2 avril 1811 : I passod thelast week, liy Easter Wet'k, al Mrs, Fisher's at Ealing, with Anne and some of the children, nnd returned to day, I hâve spent my time priucipally in answering some cases, and in readingas much as îs printed of Bentham and Dumont's work on punishments. It begins with stating what are the qualilies to be required in punishments, and Ihen proceeds to analyie ail Ihe punishments wliich are now in use. It is executed admirably, and it never was attempled before, l'enal législation hitherto has resembled what the science of pliysic musl hâve lieen when physicians did not know the properties and effecls of the médianes they administrai ■>. Le livre parait en juillet.

39. V. Obfennitu'ns on the friiiniial law nf England, as it relates to capital punishments, and on the mode in which it is administered, by Sir Samuel Itomilly, London, 1810. C'est la reproduction développée du discours prononcé par Itomilly aux Communes, le T fév. 1810, et : The Speeclm of Sir Samuel Romilly, in the Ilouseof Commons, 2 vol., London, 1820. — Le 5 juin 1810, il traite de la question dea prisons et de la transporta lion, cite Blackstone, Howard, lord Auckland, Collins, mais ne mentionne pas Bentham.