The Newgate calendar improved : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters who have been convicted of offences against the laws of England, during the seventeenth century, and continued to the present time, chronologically arranged, comprising traitors, murderers, incendiaries, ravishers, pirates, mutineers, coiners, highwaymen, footpads, housebreakers, rioters, extortioners, sharpers, forgers, pickpockets, fraudulent bankrupts, money droppers, impostors, and rogues of every description : and containing a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional remarks on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, moral reflections and observations on 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 /