Criminal chronology1809

or, 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 and 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, moneydroppers, imposters, and theives of every description : and containing a number of interesting cases never before published : with occasional essays on crimes and punishments, original anecdotes, 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

by Knapp, Andrew