The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to the present time including a number of curious cases never before published Embellished with fifty-two engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" [pseud.] . tical nature ; Tlic Essay ou Womau was a parody on Popes sublime woik, called An Essay ouMan. A Icarncil divine, the Rev. Mr. Kidgcll, tiius writes on tiie works of Wilkes:— On tlie title-page is an obscene print, witli a Greek inscription, 8igiiifunir
The chronicles of crime, or The new Newgate calendar Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to the present time including a number of curious cases never before published Embellished with fifty-two engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" [pseud.] . tical nature ; Tlic Essay ou Womau was a parody on Popes sublime woik, called An Essay ouMan. A Icarncil divine, the Rev. Mr. Kidgcll, tiius writes on tiie works of Wilkes:— On tlie title-page is an obscene print, witli a Greek inscription, 8igiiifunircd writings are perverted into the gross ideas of a libidinous blas-phemer, Willi an invention new, wonderful, and horrid. Tho most solciun and im|>ortaiiipassages of the Gospel aro tortured into the oblique obsconily of double meanings, worthy oulyof him who is at onco the cuemy of God and ?/ ^f^ :^L^> TIIK NEW MiWGATK CALKNDAU. t?Jl the other a jiiece of ohscenity : tlic one calculated to set the jjcople againstthe jrovernnuiit ; the other to corrupt their morale. Aiuoni^st tlieniinisters who found themselves more personally attacked inthe • Xorth Hriton was Samuel Martin, Esq. niemhcr for Camelford. Thisgentleman found his character, as secretary to the Treasury, so vilified,that he called tlu- writer to the field. He had before been engaged in aduel witii Lord Talbot, and had then escajx-d unhurt, but Mr. Martin shothim ; and the wound proved so dangerous tliat he lay uncertain of recover-ing duiiug several days, and was confined to his house for some weeks. His sutVerings, however, did not end lure, for the attorney-general filedinformations against him as author of The North Briton, No. 45*, andthe pamphlet entitled An Kssay on Woman. On these charges he wasapprehended ; and his papers having been seized and insjiected, he was com-mitted jirisoner to tlie To
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