8.--A thunderstorm of great severity occurred in Norwich.
15.*--"General Money has made an offer to the Commander-in-Chief to raise
400 rough hussars mounted on Welsh horses, by men below the army
standard, to be embarked in four months. The object of this corps is to
relieve the fine regiments of Cavalry in the Peninsula from all the
harassing duties of the camp."
18.--A new Methodist Chapel was opened in Calvert Street, St. George's
Colegate, Norwich, by the Rev. T. Cooke, LL.D., successor to the Rev.
John Wesley.
--Guild Day at Norwich. "St. Giles' Broad Street was decorated with
streamers, garlands, and evergreens, whilst old Snap displayed his
glittering wings and gilt tail, and cleared the way for the civic
procession to the Cathedral." After the service Robert Burrage, senior
pupil at the Free Grammar School, and a "plebeian," delivered the
customary Latin oration at the school porch, and Mr. John Hamond Cole,
having been sworn in at the Guildhall as Mayor of the city, entertained a
company of 650 at the Guild feast at St. Andrew's Hall.
20.--Died, at Athlone, Ireland, aged 38, James Wheeler, formerly of the
Norwich Company of Comedians.
24.--Holkham Sheep Shearing commenced.
29.--A cricket match was played on Mulbarton Common between the
Ashwelthorpe and Mulbarton teams, "for 22 bottles of cyder and 22 lbs. of
cherries." The Ashwelthorpe players won.
The East Norfolk Militia, commanded by Col. Wodehouse, volunteered to
serve in Ireland. The Government accepted their services, and the
regiment arrived in Cork in the following November.