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The new and complete Newgate calendar : or, Malefactor's universal register : containing new and authentic accounts of all the lives, adventures, exploits, and last dying speeches, confessions, as well as letters to their relatives never before published 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 murders, burglaries, felonies, horse stealing, bigamy, forgeries, highway robberies, footpad robberies, perjuries, piracies, rapes, riots, mobbing, sodomy, starving to death, sheep stealing, swindling, high treason, petit treason, sedition, and other misdemeanors : interspersed with notes, reflections, remarks, and inferences, arising from all the several subjects, moral, instructive, and entertaining : comprehending all the most material passages in the sessions papers for a long series of years, more than a century, together with the ordinary of Newgate's account of the capital convicts and complete narratives of all 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, 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