In a word, she became an habitual dram-drinker; and this practice exposed her to such communication as debauched her reason, and perverted her sense of decorum and propriety.

She and her husband gave a loose to vulgar excess, in which they were enabled to indulge by the charity and interest of some friends, who obtained half-pay for the captain.
"They are now metamorphosed into the shocking creatures you have seen; he into a riotous plebeian, and she into a ragged trull.

They are both drunk every day, quarrel and fight one with another, and often insult their fellow-prisoners.

Yet they are not wholly abandoned by virtue and humanity.

The captain is scrupulously honest in all his dealings, and pays off his debts punctually every quarter, as soon as he receives his half-pay.