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The new and complete Newgate calendar or, Malefactor's universal register, containing new and authentic accounts of the lives, adventures, exploits, last dying speeches, confessions, &c. &c., of the most notorious criminals and violators of the laws of their country (of both sexes and all denominations), who have suffered death and other exemplary punishments for murder, burglary, felony, horse stealing, bigamy, forgery, highway robbery, footpad robbery, perjury, piracy, rapes, riots, mobbing, sodomy, starving to death, sheep stealing, swindling, treason, mutiny, sedition, and other misdemeanors : interspersed with notes, reflections, remarks, and inferences, arising from the several subjects, moral, instructive and entertaining : comprehending the most material passages in the sessions papers for upwards of a century, together with the ordinary of Newgate's account of the capital convicts and complete narratives of the most remarkable trials : the whole containing the most faithful narratives ever yet published of the various executions and other exemplary punishments, which have happened in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, &c., from the year 1700 to the present time : the whole properly arranged from the records of the courts : to which is added, a concise account of the new settlements for convicts at Paramatta, Sydney, Port Jackson in Botany Bay, New South Wales

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