Fortunatus Dwarris

Life

Works

• ‘Substance of the Three Reports of the Commissioner of Inquiry into the Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice in the West Indies; extracted from the Parliamentary Papers,’ 1827.
• ‘The West India Question plainly stated, and the only Practical Remedy briefly considered,’ 1828, in which Dwarris argued in favour of an improvement in the condition of the slaves and the gradual abolition of slavery. His views on these questions were also set out in a long letter which he addressed from Barbados in January 1823 to Samuel Parr.
• ‘A General Treatise on Statutes,’ 1830–1, two parts; 2nd ed., assisted by William Henry Amyot, son-in-law to Dwarris, 1848; another edition was by Platt Potter, LL.D., one of the justices of the supreme court of the state of New York, Albany, New York, 1871. It became a standard work.
• ‘Alberic, Consul of Rome,’ historical drama in five acts, 1832.
• ‘Railway Results, or the Gauge Deliverance;’ a dramatic sketch, 1845. ‘A Skit on the Railway Mania,’ ‘Young England,’ and other works.
• ‘Some New Facts and a Suggested New Theory as to the Authorship of Junius,’ privately printed, 1850. The opinion of Dwarris was that the Letters of Junius were written by several persons, of whom Sir Philip Francis was the leading light.
• ‘A Letter to the Fellows of the Royal Society of Antiquaries on the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Society,’ privately printed, 1852; an argument in favour of a reduction in the rate of subscription and on the necessity for increased energy in the society's operations.
• ‘A Letter to the Lord Chancellor on his Proposed Scheme for the Consolidation of the Statute Law,’ 1853.
• ‘The Widow's Rescue,’ ‘Select Eulogies,’ ‘Schooled or Fooled,’ a tale, ‘Collected and Recollected,’ 1855.

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