5.*--"The King has granted the dignity of Earl to the Right Hon. Horatio
Baron Walpole, to be known as the Earl of Orford." Mr. Thomas Wm. Coke
was offered, but declined a peerage.
12.--At a meeting of farmers and others at Thetford, it was decided to
hold a sheep and lamb fair in that town annually on September 1st.
19.--The Boreas frigate, 28 guns, was launched from the dockyard of
Messrs. Stone and Custance, at Yarmouth. On the same day the Ariel
sloop, of 18 guns, was launched from Mr. N. Palmer's yard.
27.--General Milner inspected the Norwich Rifle Corps this day (Sunday);
the Norwich Volunteer Regiment on the 28th; and Col. Patteson's Battalion
on the 29th.