The Repository: containing various political, philosophical, literary, and miscellaneous articles
Contributions
- Benjamin Vaughan
- editor
- journalist
- William Justins
- publisher
- Charles Dilly
- bookseller
- Thomas Hookham
- bookseller
- William Richardson
- bookseller
Related resources
- has part
- Memoirs of H. Masers de Latude during a confinement of thirty-five years in the state prisons of France. Of the means he used once to escape from the Bastile and twice from the dungeon of Vincennes, with the consequences of those events (1787). Written by himself. translation
- has part
- Letter of Samuel Romilly on the Bicêtre prison has translation
- has part
- On the Importance of Religious Opinions translation
- has part
- On domestic life: Translated from the French of Major Weiss translation
Summary (extracted citations)
Epigraph: "Trahit quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo"
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Notes
Printed by W. Justins and sold by C. Dilly, W. Nicoll, T. Hookham, W. Richardson, and J. & T. Egerton.
Benjamin Vaughan never acknowledged his editorship of this bi-monthly periodical, which was funded by the Earl of Shelburne (later the 1st Marquis of Lansdowne), and actively tried to draw attention away from himself. Its prospectus announced the first issue would be published on 1 Jan. 1788 and that the new periodical would contain a broad range of content from other countries.
Contributors to the Repository included Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley and Mallet du Pan. There were articles on the abolition of the slave trade, the reform of the criminal law and other aspects of the radical programme which Shelburne's set were working on.
See Kenneth E. Carpenter, 'Benjamin Vaughan's contributions unveiled: a bibliography' (History of European Ideas, 44:3, 2018), pp.300ff, Samuel Romilly, 'Memoirs', Vol.1, p.97, and Derek Jarrett, 'The Begetters of Revolution: England's involvement with France, 1759–1789' (1973), p.259.