Diary, 20 avril 1808 (Mem. vol. Il, pp

31. 98 janv. 1807 : « A bill for making the freehold estates of persons lying indebted, assets for the payment of simple contract debts. » (Mem., vol. II, p. 183).

32. Memoirs, vol. II, p. 235 : When I first went the cireuit, which is now 23 years ago, some instances of judicial injustice which I met with made a deep impression on me; and I resolved to attempt some reform of the system, if I ever should have an opportunity of doing it with any project of success. — Cf. Romilly à Roget, 22 mai 1781, sur le livre de Howard (Mem. vol. I, p. 169).

33. Bowring, vol. I, pp. 248-249 : Amongst the friendships, it gave me, was Dumont’s ; one that it helped to form, was Romilly’'s. — (Bowring, vol. X, p. 228) : Bentham to the ladies of Bowood, 1790 : You angel, who know everything that passes, or does not pass in the bosom of me, a sinner, so much better than I do myself, say how long I have entertained so heroie a friendship for Mr. Romilly ? That I regard and esteemed him, on account of so much as I know of his political principles, I was myself aware ; but friendship is with me a sacred name, searcely employed till after a degree of mutual explanation and épanchement du cœur which seemed approaching, but, as yet, has scarcely taken place betwixt me and Mr. Romilly. — Ed. Rev., vol. LXXVIII, pp. 483-484 : insinuations perfides sur leurs relations (article d'Empson). ”

34. Ap. Brougham., ap. Hansard, 8 juin 1818. — Cf. Bowring, vol. X, p. 419 : réponse à Bentham d’une vieille fille qu'il a demandée en mariage, 10 oct. 4805 : Qu'il l’oublie : ce sont les célibataires qui font les grandes choses. Et pour finir : Let me, as a last request, entreat you to do it, and to devote all the time you can spare from your studies to your friends in Russell Square. There is not a man upon earth who loves you more affeetionately than Mr. Romilly— 1 know he does ; and his wife’s society, you acknowledge, is soothing to you.

35. Bowring, vol. X, p. 396 : Bentham à Eden, 4 sept. 1802. | 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. 310) : 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 have 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 covering they may still be found. The project so successfully

opposed by Lord Eldon’s Sir William Grant — the endeavour to prevail upon honourable gentlemen to divest themselves of the power ofswindling in their individual capacities — was, to both of us, a favourite one.

38. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 427-428, Dumont à Bentham, 3 nov. 1807 :1 have laboured hard. I have revised the whole Penal Code, which stood in great need of it. A part translated — a part abridged, before I was completely master of my Benthamic system. Romilly read a good deal of it in the Isle of Wight, and is very much pleased. His approbation has given me spirit. He deems the publication most important, and says it willawaken public attention. — Romilly, Memoirs, vol. IT, p. 258. I passed the vacation almostentirely at Knill, G. Wilson and Dumont spenta great part of it with us, and accompanied us in a very delightful town down the Wye, Dumont brought with him to Knill several MSS of Bentham’s which he is translating and arrangine, in order to publish them, as a continuation of the work of which he has already printed three volumes. One of them, a treatise on punishments, appears to me to have a very extraordinary merit, and to be likely to be more popular than most of Bentham’s writings, and to produce very good effects. I strongly exhorted Dumont to finish it without delay, and to publish it, if possible, in the ensuing winter; and he has promised to do so. Since the work of Beccaria, nothing has appeared on the subject of Criminal Law which has made any impression on the public. This work will, [ think, probably make a very deep impression. — Romilly, Memoirs, vol. [1, p. 391 ; 2 avril 1811 : J passed the last week, by Easter Week, at Mrs, Fisher’s at Ealing, with Anne and some of the children, and returned to day, I have spent my time principally in answering some cases, and in reading as much as is printed of Bentham and Dumont’s work on punishments. It begins with stating what are the qualities to be required in punishments, and then proceeds to analyze all the punishments which are now in use. It is executed admirably, and it never was attempled before, Penal legislation hitherto has resembled what the science of physic must have been when physicians did not know the properties and effects of the medicines they administered ». Le livre paraît en juillet.

39. V. Observations on the criminal law of England, as it relates to capital punishments, and on the mode in which it is administered, by Sir Samuel Romilly, London, 1810. C’est la reproduction développée du discours prononcé par Romilly aux Communes, le 7 fév. 1810, et : The Speeches of Sir Samuel Romilly, in the House of Commons, 2 vol., London, 1820. — Le 5 juin 1810, il traite de la question des prisons et de la - transportation, cite Blackstone, Howard, lord Auckland, Collins, mais ne mentionne pas Bentham.