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The Newgate calendar, or, Malefactors' bloody register : containing genuine and circumstantial narrative of the lives and transactions, various exploits and dying speeches of the most notorious criminals of both sexes who suffered death punishment in Gt. Britain and Ireland for high treason, highway robberies, petty treason, forgery, murder, rapes, piracy, bigamy, felony, burglaries, thieving, riots and various other horrid crimes and misdemeanours on a plan entirely new, wherein will be fully displayed the regular progress from virtue to vice interspersed with striking reflexions on the conduct of those unhappy wretches who have fallen a sacrifice to the laws of their country |
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