The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) Saturday 14 September 1811
By a letter from Windsor, dated the 10th Instant, we have been favored with an account of a most disgraceful transaction which has lately taken place there, and we feel it a duty owing to Society to give it public notoriety, as well for the purpose of exposing the parties themselves to the contempt and disgrace which they have so highly incurred, as also to put the ignorant and abandoned on their guard against the commission of a crime which every sense of manhood should revolt from, with detestation.
"A person (for a man I cannot call him) of the name of Ralph Malkins, led his lawful wife into our streets on the 28nd ultimo, with a rope round her neck, and publicly ex-posed her for sale; and, shameful to be told, another fellow,equally contemptible, called Thomas Quire, actually purchased and paid for her on the spot, sixteen pounds in money, and some yards of cloth. I am sorry to add, that the woman herself was so devoid of those feelings which are justly deemed the most valuable in her sex, agreed to the base traffic, and went off with the purchaser, significantly hinting, that she had no doubt her new possesor would make her a better husband than the wretch she then parted from.
This business was conducted in so public (editor's note: Thompson Square) a manner far outraged all laws human or devine, that a Bench of Magistrates, consisting of Mr. Cox, the Rev. Mr. Cartwright, and Mr. Mileham, had it publicly investigated on Saturday last, and all the odious circumstances having been clearly proved, and even admitted by the base wretches themselves,the Bench sentenced this no-man to receive 50 lashes, and put to hard labour in irons, in the gaol gang Sydney for the space of three calendar months; and the woman to be transported to the Coal River for an indefinite time."
By a letter from Windsor, dated the 10th Instant, we have been favored with an account of a most disgraceful transaction which has lately taken place there, and we feel it a duty owing to Society to give it public notoriety, as well for the purpose of exposing the parties themselves to the contempt and disgrace which they have so highly incurred, as also to put the ignorant and abandoned on their guard against the commission of a crime which every sense of manhood should revolt from, with detestation.
"A person (for a man I cannot call him) of the name of Ralph Malkins, led his lawful wife into our streets on the 28nd ultimo, with a rope round her neck, and publicly ex-posed her for sale; and, shameful to be told, another fellow,equally contemptible, called Thomas Quire, actually purchased and paid for her on the spot, sixteen pounds in money, and some yards of cloth. I am sorry to add, that the woman herself was so devoid of those feelings which are justly deemed the most valuable in her sex, agreed to the base traffic, and went off with the purchaser, significantly hinting, that she had no doubt her new possesor would make her a better husband than the wretch she then parted from.
This business was conducted in so public (editor's note: Thompson Square) a manner far outraged all laws human or devine, that a Bench of Magistrates, consisting of Mr. Cox, the Rev. Mr. Cartwright, and Mr. Mileham, had it publicly investigated on Saturday last, and all the odious circumstances having been clearly proved, and even admitted by the base wretches themselves,the Bench sentenced this no-man to receive 50 lashes, and put to hard labour in irons, in the gaol gang Sydney for the space of three calendar months; and the woman to be transported to the Coal River for an indefinite time."
