7.--The City of Norwich Regiment of Volunteers assembled on Tombland at
five am., and marched to Yarmouth for garrison duty. There were on
parade 26 officers, 30 sergeants, 25 corporals, and 500 rank and file.
12.--Mr. Philipsthal's Phantasmagoria was exhibited at the Theatre Royal,
Norwich.
14.--Died, at Rainham, in his 84th year, George Marquis Townshend, a
Field Marshal, Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Dragoon Guards, and Lord
Lieutenant of Norfolk. His lordship represented Norfolk from 1747 to
1764, and from 1768 to 1772 was Viceroy of Ireland. He acted as
Brigadier-General, and gained much honour at the taking of Quebec in
1759, when the command of the troops devolved upon him, in consequence of
the death of General Wolfe and of the wounding of General Monkton, second
in command. His Majesty granted a pension of 1,000 pounds a year out of
the privy purse to the Marchioness Townshend.
19.*--"One day last week a child, playing in the churchyard of St.
Michael-at-Plea, Norwich, found concealed behind a gravestone, covered
with a tile, a parcel, containing more than 90 pounds in forged Bank of
England notes and 14 pounds in counterfeit shillings."
21.--At a quarterly assembly of the Norwich Corporation the city gates
still remaining were ordered to be taken down.