The new Newgate calendar : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters, who have been convicted of outrages on the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, brought down to the present time : chronologically arranged : comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries, ravishers, pirates, mutineers, coiners, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, rioters, extortioners, sharpers, forgerers, pickpockets, fraudulent bankrupts, money-droppers, impostors, and thieves of every description : containing also a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional essays on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, and observations of particular cases, explanations of the criminal laws, the speeches, confessions, and last exclamations of sufferers : to which is added a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world /