Congratulates her on the birth of her daughter, has some fun with the though of foreign customs whereby the husband lays-in on behalf of the wife. Provides news of Charlotte and her own child.
Harward divides his time between Godalming, where he is recruiting, and Montpelier Row.
Mrs. Chambers has been suffering from headaches, but has been relieved through the use of blisters. They have seen
Cottin's mother and father, but that is all. He hears they are at Canterbury as the regiment is nearby, and hears of the possibility of Cottin's promotion. He hears of no further murders in France, though he expects half the National Convention to have been exterminated by now, the streets [of London] swarm with Frenchmen, "useless locusts", with Clergy at Winchester, "enough to poison" the nation with religious difference.