2.--A public meeting was held at St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, when
resolutions, expressive of obligations to Earl St. Vincent, for promoting
an enquiry into naval abuses, with thanks to Mr. Whitbread for
introducing the tenth report of the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry to the
notice of the House of Commons; and thanks to Mr. Robert Fellowes, M.P.,
and Mr. W. Smith, M.P., for supporting Mr. Whitbread's motion, were
unanimously agreed to.
3.--The Common Council of Norwich proposed a vote of thanks to Earl St.
Vincent, to the Commissioners of Naval Enquiry, to Mr. Whitbread, and to
the members of Parliament for the city. This was negatived by the
aldermen by 12 votes to 4.
6.--An impressment took place at Yarmouth. "Ships' parties stopped every
person they met without discrimination or respect for appearances. No
less than 300 persons were impressed. Some were confined in the
rendezvous of the town gang, others were marched to the barracks or
conveyed to the boats lying in readiness at the jetty, and the whole body
were carried during the night on to the Monmouth. Next morning a
regulation took place, and 50 only were detained."
14.--At a county meeting, held at the Norwich Shirehall, several
resolutions, thanking Earl St. Vincent and the Commissioners of Naval
Enquiry, and Mr. Whitbread, Sir J. H. Astley, and Mr. T. W. Coke for
their patriotic and independent conduct in Parliament, were unanimously
agreed to.
18.--An officer of the Shropshire Militia decided in his favour a wager
of ten guineas, "to pick up 100 stones laid in Chapel Field, Norwich, at
a distance of a yard from each other, and to deposit them in two baskets
placed at the extremities of the line, in the space of one hour."
Another person, a few weeks afterwards, performed the same feat in 44
minutes.
25.--Married, by special licence by the Bishop of Norwich, at his
lordship's house in Manchester-square, London, Mr. Benjamin Bathurst,
secretary of legation to the Court of Stockholm, to Miss Call, daughter
of Sir John Call, Bart. (In November, 1809, when travelling to England
with important despatches as envoy to the Court of Vienna, Bathurst
mysteriously disappeared in the town of Perleberg, and was never more
seen or heard of.)
--*"A street, 26 feet wide, is about to be opened, forming an entrance,
which has long been most desirable, from Chapel Field directly into
Bethel Street, Norwich."
The several battalions of Volunteer Infantry in the county performed a
month's garrison duty in Yarmouth. The Norwich Volunteers were on duty
in the city.