3.--A Parliamentary election took place at Norwich, resulting in the
return of Mr. John Patteson, 1,733 votes, and Mr. Robert Fellowes, 1,370
votes. Mr. Wm. Smith, who polled 1,333 votes, was the unsuccessful
candidate. On the 10th "the Norwich Battalion of Volunteers received
Col. Patteson, M.P., with a general salute, and fired three vollies and
gave three cheers in token of their satisfaction at his being elected one
of the representatives of the city."
--King's Lynn election. Lord Walpole and Sir M. B. ffolkes returned
unopposed.
4.--Thetford election. Lord William Fitzroy, 28 votes; Mr. James Mingay,
17 votes. Mr. Thomas Creevey, the unsuccessful candidate, polled 14
votes.
--Yarmouth election. The Hon. Edward Harbord and Mr. S. Lushington
returned unopposed. A petition was lodged against the return, but the
committee of the House of Commons declared it to be frivolous and
vexatious, and the members retained their seats.
6.--Miss Elizabeth Bidwell, niece of Mr. Bidwell, of Thetford, arrived at
Harwich from Berlin. "She was tutoress to the King of Prussia's
children, and had a narrow escape of falling into the hands of the
French, and when she landed was destitute of money and change of
raiment." Miss Bidwell afterwards had an audience of the Queen at
Windsor, to whom she related the details of her escape.
12.--The Sapphire sloop of war, 18 guns, launched from Messrs. Brindley's
yard at King's Lynn.
13.--County election. The poll was open for six days. Mr. T. W. Coke,
4,118 votes; the Right Hon. William Windham, 3,722 votes. The
unsuccessful candidate, the Hon. John Wodehouse, received 3,365 votes.
"On the chairing day, as well as every day during the election, there
were excellent dinners provided at the White Swan and Angel, where Mr.
Coke and Mr. Windham met large parties of their friends, whose convivial
enjoyments were much heightened by the eloquent orations of Mr. Plumptre
and the exertions of Mr. Mingay, whose good-humoured sallies and
witticisms never failed to set the tables in a roar." A petition against
the return of the members was presented by Mr. T. T. Berney and others,
and on February 12th, 1807, the committee of the House of Commons
declared the election void. On February 26th, Mr. Coke was returned
unopposed for Derby, in place of his brother, Mr. E. Coke, who had
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. On March 5th, Mr. E. Coke and Sir Jacob
Astley, Bart., were returned unopposed for Norfolk, and Mr. Windham took
his seat, without opposition, as member for New Romney.
24.--Died, in St. Lawrence', Norwich, Mrs. Galey, aged 101.
30.--At the meeting of the Society of Universal Good Will, at Norwich, it
was reported that 187 persons, besides weekly pensioners, had been
relieved during the year, making in all 2,218 since the establishment of
the institution.