3.*--"There is now living at Oxburgh, in this county, William Durrant, a
gardener, who yearly eats 1,095 red herrings, chews 18 lbs. of tobacco,
and, to give his nose pleasure, takes 365 ozs. of snuff. The total sum
of tobacco, snuff, and red herrings is 13 pounds 18s. 10d."
--*(Advt.) "A main will be fought at the Fleece Inn, Wells, on Monday
and Tuesday, the 19th and 20th inst., between the gentlemen of Norfolk
and Wells. To show 31 cocks and 10 byes, and to fight for 10 gs. the
battle and 100 the odd; to make four in goes. Feeders: Fisher for
Norfolk, Lamb for Wells."
10.*--"During the last eleven months, the period of Miss Harriett
Howell's visits to this city, three schools have been established in
Norwich, in which no fewer than 294 children are now educated on the plan
advocated by Mr. J. Lancaster."
--*"A drover, near Norwich, has attended the market at Smithfield for 25
years, in which time he has ridden on those journeys alone 126,000
miles."
--A court martial was held on his Majesty's ship Utile on a seaman
belonging to the Desiree, "at his own request," for striking an officer
and using mutinous language. He was sentenced to death.
19.--At the Norfolk Assizes, held at Thetford, Thomas William Middleton,
for embezzling money the property of Messrs. Gurney and Co., by whom he
was employed as clerk, at Fakenham, was sentenced to 14 years'
transportation.
--The panorama, by Serries, of the town and port of Boulogne "with the
flotilla, designed to invade this country, at anchor in the outer road,"
was exhibited at Harper's Pantheon, Norwich.
22.--Died in St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, aged 57, Nathaniel Eastaugh,
the common crier, and one of the Mayor's beadles, "who except one year
held the bell from 1780 up to the time of his death." He was succeeded
by Anthony Bailey.
23.--Mr. Joseph Lancaster visited Norwich, and at the Theatre gave
lectures on his system of education. At a meeting at the Guildhall on
April 17, a free school for boys, on Mr. Lancaster's plan, was
established by public subscription.
--Died in St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, aged 72, David Kinnebrook, for 40
years master of one of the charity schools, "who never till his last
illness absented himself from the school for a single day."
24.--A large meeting of landowners, occupiers, and Scottish drovers was
held at the Rampant Horse Inn, to discuss the right of the Corporation of
Norwich to levy tolls upon cattle sold or exhibited for sale at the
weekly mart on the Castle Hill. A deputation waited upon the Mayor and
the Market Committee, and on April 11th a further meeting, presided over
by Sir James Beevor, was held for the purpose of defending any action
that might be brought by the Corporation to recover tolls.