2.--During a severe gale many vessels were lost on the Norfolk coast.
"The beach from Wells to Yarmouth, covered with wrecks and strewed with
the bodies of unfortunates washed ashore, presented a scene of calamity
not easy to describe." Another gale and high tide occurred on the 10th.
Capt. Manby's life-saving apparatus was instrumental in rescuing 18
seamen.
12.--Gustavus Adolphus, ex-King of Sweden, travelling under the title of
Count Gottorp, arrived at Yarmouth from the Baltic on board the Tartarus
sloop, Capt. Mainwaring. He landed under a Royal salute, and at once set
out for London with Capt. Mainwaring. The ex-King sailed from Yarmouth
on his return to the Continent on March 28, 1811.
13.--The bells of the Norwich churches were tolled from seven p.m. to
nine p.m. on the occasion of the burial of the Princess Amelia at
Windsor.
17.*--"In the parish of Pulham Market are now living five men whose
united ages amount to 436 years, and what is extraordinary is the five
men now go to daily labour."
--Died, aged 58, Edward Castleton. "He was the lineal descendant of Sir
William Castleton, of Hingham, created a baronet in 1641. He died a
bachelor and never assumed the title. For many years he followed the
very humble employment of breeches maker in Lynn, and latterly lived on a
small patrimonial allowance."
21.--A cause of divorce and separation promoted by Mrs. Beevor against
her husband, came on for further hearing in the Court of Arches, Doctors'
Commons, when, Mrs. Beevor having declared that she should proceed no
further, the court dismissed the suit.