4.*--"Lieut. Richard Brunton, of the 43rd Regiment, son of J. Brunton,
Esq., late manager of our Theatre, is appointed Captain in the 6th
Regiment of Portuguese Cacadores."
21.--Intelligence received of a brilliant achievement in the Adriatic by
Capt. William Hoste in the Amphion, who with two frigates and a sloop
defeated the combined French and Italian squadrons of five frigates, a
corvette, &c. He captured and destroyed four of the enemy's frigates.
The action took place on March 13th.
25.--A Royal license was granted to Elizabeth Barber Bulwer, widow of
Brigadier-General Bulwer, of Wood Dalling and Heydon, and only child of
Richard Warburton Lytton, late of Knebworth Place, Herts., to take and
use the surname and arms of Lytton in addition to and with those of
Bulwer.
--*"This week the churchwardens and officers, and many of the inhabitants
of St. John Maddermarket, St. Stephen's, St. Augustine's, and St. John
Timberhill, went the bounds of their respective parishes, when the usual
ceremonies of bumping and ducking (inside and out) took place amid the
ringing of bells, &c."
A census was taken in Norwich during this month. The population was
returned as 37,256, an increase since 1801 of 424.