Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ THE Life, Travels, Exploits, Frauds and Robberies, OF Charles Speckman, _alias_ Brown, Who was Executed at TYBURN, on _Wednesday_ the 23d of _November_, 1763. By far the most dexterous of his Profession in this or any other Country. CONTAINING, A genuine Recital of more than Five Hundred Thefts, Frauds, and Felonies, committed by him in _England_, _Scotland_, _Ireland_, _North America_, and the _West Indies_, during the Course of Fifteen Years. WITH Several Maxims, Hints, and Remarks, by Way of Caution to the Public, to prevent or detect the Designs of Sharpers and Thieves from being carried into Execution. The whole NARRATIVE being wonderful and surprizing, and yet in all Respects strictly true. Written by HIMSELF, Whilst under Sentence of Death in _Newgate_. _LONDON_: Printed for J. FULLER, in _Blowbladder-Street_, near _Cheapside_. M.DCC.LXIII. [Price ONE SHILLING.] [Illustration: 3 daggers] This Pamphlet written for the publick Good ONLY, is entered in the Hall-book of the Company of Stationers, and at the Stamp-office, whoever pirates or prints any Part of it, will be prosecuted to the utmost Rigour of the Law. [Illustration: Decoration] _I do hereby empower_ Mr. John Fuller, _of_ Newgate-street, _to Print this only Genuine and True Account of my Life and Transactions for many Years. Containing the most astonishing Variety of Incidents, of any Person ever under the same Misfortunes with myself_. Charles Speckman. Press-Yard, Newgate, 22 Nov. 1763. _Witness_, Francis Caveac, John Anstey. [Illustration: Decoration] [Illustration: Decoration] THE LIFE AND WONDERFUL TRANSACTIONS OF Mr. CHARLES SPECKMAN, alias BROWNE, &c. There is not perhaps in the world a more agreeable study than that of Biography; nor any thing sought after and read with greater avidity, than the lives of unfortunate men, and those who suffer under the hands of the executioner more than any. In this narration will be seen, the early propensity to acts of robbery, preying upon, and living in an absolute state of war with all mankind, the long series of years Mr. Speckman escaped punishment, in which time he committed more robberies than any person before him brought to publick shame; all of them related by the unhappy man himself, in the following plain and undisguised manner. * * * * *