Sydney Gazette March 5, 1805
Sydney Gazette
March 5, 1805
An English paper informs us, that a practice equally disgraceful and immoral had been prevalent in the Town of Manchester since the ratification of the Treaty of Peace: Wives had been publickly exhibited for sale; good ones, being scarce, brought a great price-- but the market being overstocked with whose of a contrary description, they sold for little or nothing. Much to the credit of the Magistrates, they suppressed the growing evil, and restored the Fair Sex to their original value.
March 5, 1805
An English paper informs us, that a practice equally disgraceful and immoral had been prevalent in the Town of Manchester since the ratification of the Treaty of Peace: Wives had been publickly exhibited for sale; good ones, being scarce, brought a great price-- but the market being overstocked with whose of a contrary description, they sold for little or nothing. Much to the credit of the Magistrates, they suppressed the growing evil, and restored the Fair Sex to their original value.