1.--Intelligence was received at Yarmouth, from Constantinople, of the
surrender of Alexandria to the British and Turkish armies under General
Hutchinson and the Grand Vizier.
3.--The intelligence reached Norwich that the Preliminaries of Peace had
been signed in Paris. There were great rejoicings on the 10th on the
ratification of the news. The horses of the mail coach, by which the
intelligence was brought to the city, were so terrified by the
demonstration that they became unmanageable, the coach was overturned,
and the coachman, the guard, and some of the passengers injured.
5.--At Yarmouth, during the Peace illuminations, a mob broke the windows
of several houses occupied by Quakers. The ringleaders were committed
for trial at the Sessions.
7.--At the Norfolk County Sessions, Elizabeth Manship, of Ormesby, was
indicted for committing an outrage upon the Rev. Eli Morgan Price, when
in the act of officiating at Divine service at the parish church. It
appeared that while Mr. Price was reading a new form of thanksgiving "for
the late plentiful season" the defendant rushed out of her pew and
snatched the paper out of his hands, to the very great disturbance and
alarm of the congregation. The jury found the defendant guilty, and she
was sentenced to pay a fine of 20 pounds.
21.--A general illumination took place in Norwich in celebration of the
Peace. There was a grand display of transparencies, and a huge bonfire
was lighted in the Market Place, around which the Mayor and Corporation
paraded. The celebration was general throughout the county.
24.*--"In the spring of this year the Palace Workhouse, Norwich,
contained 1,017 paupers. They are now reduced to 425, a smaller number
than has been known for the past 20 years. The reduction in the other
workhouse has been nearly proportionate."