2.--At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, a man named Stebbing, of Wymondham,
was indicted for using seditious language in the presence of several
persons, some of whom were Militia men. The prisoner was alleged to have
asserted that "if Buonaparte would come he would be the first man to join
him" and that "Buonaparte was a better man to his country than King
George was to this." The jury, "to the surprise of the whole court,"
returned a verdict of not guilty, "and several gentlemen on the bench
expressed their strongest reprobation." Sergt. Money, of the Militia,
one of the principal witnesses for the prosecution, was afterwards
appointed to an ensigncy in the 4th Garrison Battalion.
10.--The Victory, 100 guns, Vice-Admiral Sir J. Saumarez, and seven other
sail of the line, sailed from Yarmouth for the Baltic.
16.--The First Eastern Regiment of the Local Militia, commanded by Lord
Suffield, assembled at Aylsham and marched thence to Yarmouth for 20
days' training. The dates and places of assembly of the other regiments
were as follow:--2nd Eastern Regiment, Col. Patteson, Norwich, May 22nd;
1st Western Regiment, Col. Petre, Norwich, May 17th; 2nd Western
Regiment, Col. Edmund Wodehouse, Lynn, May 21st; 3rd Western Regiment,
Col. Chad, Swaffham, May 10th, whence they marched to Norwich. In
consequence of insufficiency of accommodation at Norwich, three companies
of the 3rd Western Regiment marched to Dereham, where the course of
training was completed.
19.*--"One day last week, a young woman, of Dereham, being strongly
attached to a soldier in the 24th Regiment of Foot, resolved to follow
him to the wars, and habiting herself in man's attire enlisted by mistake
into the 54th Regiment of Foot recruiting in Norwich. Her sex was
discovered and her intentions frustrated."
20.--Died in London, aged 81, the Right Hon. Charles Lord Bayning, of
Honingham Hall, a Privy Councillor, and High Steward of Great Yarmouth.
He was succeeded by his son, the Hon. Charles Frederick Pawlett
Townshend.
28.--The birthday of William Pitt was celebrated by the members of the
Castle Corporation, Norwich, and other gentlemen to the number of 130, in
Mr. Bailey's great room.