Historian, poet, and man of letters; author of Life of Lorenzo di Medici (1795) and Life and Pontificate of Leo X (1805). He was Whig MP for Liverpool (1806-1807) and edited the Works of Pope, 10 vols (1824).

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY William Roscoe:

“The Negro's Complaint” in The Bee, or Literary Intelligencer.

Additional Observations on Penal Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of Criminals; containing Remarks on Prison Discipline, in reply to an Article in the Edinburgh Review, and on the Punishment of Criminals by Solitary Confinement, as proposed in some of the United States of America.

An Address, delivered before the Proprietors of the Botanic Garden in Liverpool, previous to opening the Garden, May 3, 1802.

An Answer to a Letter from Mr. John Merritt, on the Subject of Parliamentary Reform.

Brief Observations on the Address to His Majesty proposed by Earl Grey in the House of Lords: 13th June, 1810.

A Brief Statement of the Causes which have led to the Abandonment of the Celebrated System of Penitentiary Discipline: in some of the United States of America. In a Letter to the Hon. Stephen Allen, of New-York.

“The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast” in Gentleman's Magazine.

Catalogue of the very select and valuable Library of William Roscoe, esq..

Considerations on the Causes, Objects and Consequences of the Present War, and on the Expediency, or the Danger of Peace with France.

Declaration of the Objects of the Liverpool Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery: 25th March, 1823.

“Elegy, on the Death of the Scottish Poet Burns” in Morning Chronicle.

A General View of the African Slave-Trade: demonstrating its Injustice and Impolicy: with Hints towards a Bill for its Abolition.

Illustrations, Historical and Critical, of the Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent.

An Inquiry into the Causes of the Insurrection of the Negroes in the Island of St. Domingo. To which are added, Observations of M. Garran-Coulon on the same Subject, read in his Absence by M. Guadet, before the National Assembly, 29th Feb. 1792.

A Letter to Henry Brougham, Esq. M.P. on the Subject of Reform in the Representation of the People in Parliament.

A Letter to the Reverend William Lisle Bowles, A.M., Prebendary of Sarum, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and former Editor of Pope's Works in Ten Volumes, in reply to his Final Appeal to the Literary Public relative to Pope.

“The Life of Alexander Pope” in The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by himself and others. To which are added, a new Life of the Author, an Estimate of his Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks.

The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth.

The Life, Death, and Wonderful Atchievements of Edmund Burke. A New Ballad. By the Author of the Wrongs of Africa.

The Life of Lorenzo de'Medici, called the Magnificent.

“Lines on receiving from Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia, a piece of the tree under which William Penn made his peace with the Indians, and which was blown down in 1812, converted to the purpose of an inkstand” in Liverpool Mercury.

Mount Pleasant: a Descriptive Poem. To which is added, an Ode.

Memoir of Richard Roberts Jones of Aberdaron: in the County of Carnarvon, in North Wales; exhibiting a remarkable instance of a Partial Power and Cultivation of Intellect.

Monandrian Plants of the Order Scitamineae, chiefly drawn from Living Specimens in the Botanic Garden at Liverpool. Arranged according to the System of Linnaeus. With Descriptions and Observations.

“Mr William Rathbone” in The Athenaeum.

The Nurse, a Poem. Translated from the Italian of Luigi Tansillo by William Roscoe.

Observations on the Present Relative Situation of Great Britain and France: November the 16th, 1802.

Observations on Penal Jurisprudence and the Reformation of Criminals: with an Appendix, containing the latest Reports of the State-prisons or Penitentiaries of Philadelphia, New-York, and Massachusetts, and other Documents.

Observations on Penal Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of Criminals: Part III, containing further Remarks on the opinions of the Edinburgh Reviewers, on the Society for Prison Discipline, on the General Penitentiary at Milbank, and on the State Prisons in America: being an Attempt to demonstrate the Necessity of adopting an Improved System of Criminal Jurisprudence.

Occasional Tracts relative to the War between Great Britain and France: written and published at different periods, from the year 1793, including Brief Observations on the Address to His Majesty, proposed by Earl Grey, in the House of Lords, June 13, 1810.

Ode, on the Institution of a Society in Liverpool, for the encouragement of Designing, Drawing, Painting, &c..

O'er the vine-cover'd hills. Sung at the Crown and Anchor, Nov. 5, 1796.

Ode to the People of France; imitated from a Canzone of Petrarch: with the Italian Original.

“On Artificial and Natural Arrangements of Plants: and particularly on the Systems of Linnæus and Jussieu.” in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.

On the Origin and Vicissitudes of Literature, Science and Art, and their Influence on the Present State of Society: a Discourse, delivered on the opening of the Liverpool Royal Institution, 25th November, 1817.

Remarks on the Proposals made to Great Britain for opening Negotiations for Peace in the year 1807.

Reply to "Some Remarks (by George Harrison) on a Communication from William Roscoe to the Duke of Gloucester: President of the African Institution, dated March 20, 1809".

A Review of the Speeches of the Right Hon. George Canning on the Late Election for Liverpool as far as they relate to the Questions of Peace and Reform .

A Scriptural Refutation of a Pamphlet, lately published by the Rev. Raymund Harris: intitled, "Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Slave Trade": in Four Letters from the author to a Friend.

Strictures on Mr. Burke's Two Letters: addressed to a Member of the present Parliament. Part the First.

Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Failures.

“To Pity” in Scots Magazine.

Unfold, father time. Sung at the Crown and Anchor, Nov. 5, 1796.

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by himself and others. To which are added, a new Life of the Author, an Estimate of his Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks.

The Wrongs of Africa; a Poem.