The Indian ships lately returned from Madras and Bengal, gives unfavourable accounts of all the branches of commerce, except that of matrimony, which has succeeded wonderfully in the last female exportations. Out of eleven ladies, who embarked on a marriage venture on board the Chesterfield, Captain Burgess, nine were connubially linked to weakly husbands within three months after their arrival and the other two were left in a way to complete this fortunate band of hymeneal adventu- rers.
Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 08 November 1790, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/84.