Letter from Colonel Baldwin to his wife

"The whores (by information) continue their employ, which is become very lucrative.  Their unparalleled conduct is a sufficient antidote against any desires that a person can have that has one spark of modesty or virtue left in him.  Perhaps you will call me censorius and exclaim too much upon bare reports when I say I was never within the doors of nor exchanged a word with any of them except in the execution of my duty as officer of the day in going the grand round with my guard of escort, have broke up the knots of men and women fighting, pulling caps, swearing, crying, "Murder," etc., hurried them off to the Provost Dungeon by half dozens, there let them lay mixed till next day.  Then some are punished and some get off clear - Hell's work!"

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