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Letter of Samuel Romilly on the Bicêtre prison

1788 Subjects: Human rights, Law Forms: Correspondence, reminiscences, etc., Manuscripts Translation Status: Source-text English Paris

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Samuel Romilly
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The Repository: containing various political, philosophical, literary, and miscellaneous articles
has translation
Observations d'un voyageur anglais, sur la maison de force appellée Bicêtre, suivies de reflexions sur les effets de la sévérité des peines, & sur la législation criminelle de la Grande Bretagne. Imité de l'anglais par le comte de Mirabeau. Avec une lettre de M.B. Franklin translation has paratext

Notes

Romilly's manuscript letter was translated and published in French by Mirabeau. The English source text was later printed in Benjamin Vaughan's review The Repository (Vol.2, no.9), and mistakenly considered a translation of Mirabeau's text.

See Leech, 'Cosmopolitanism', p.91.