'went into Melbourne after muster & stayed some time reading at the Yorick thought London Punch particularly good this month, one cartoon especially a Study in the Palace of Versailles, the king of Prussia Booted & spurred, yet in an easy chair having a pipe over the Plans of Paris & wearing a self satisfied air, behind him the shades of Louis the fourteenth & Napoleon "Is this the end of all the triumphs" Another Cartoon represents "a real German defeat" the Marquis of Lorn with his royal bride leaning fondly on him while in the distance are to be seen a crowd of Uniformed, Whiskered & bewaxed German princes wailing, & gnashing at the sight though still sucking away at their Meerchaums.'