1.*--"The commanding officers of the Norfolk Regiments of Local Militia
and the Norfolk and Norwich Volunteers have received orders to send the
accoutrements of their respective regiments to the nearest ports for the
use of the German levies against the common enemy. The arms have this
week been sent to Yarmouth."
1.--A contested election took place for the mayoralty of Norwich. The
candidates were Alderman R. Harvey, jun., Alderman J. Harvey, and
Alderman Davey. The freemen demanded a poll for Mr. R. Harvey, sen., and
Mr. J. Ives Harvey. Mr. Harvey, the elder, strongly opposed his
nomination in consequence of his infirm state of health. The polling
commenced at once, and continued till six p.m. The contest was resumed
on the 2nd (Sunday) at ten o'clock, and at the close the voting was
declared as follows:--Davey, 764; J. Harvey, 730; R. Harvey, jun., 717;
R. Harvey sen., 9. The two first-named were returned to the Court of
Aldermen. At a Court of Mayoralty held on the 3rd, Mr. John Harvey was
objected to on the ground that he was not an inhabitant of the city as
required by the Charter. This objection was upheld by Mr. Serjeant Lens,
to whom the case was submitted, and on May 20 it was resolved at a
Special Assembly to apply to the Court of King's Bench for a mandamus to
elect a Mayor. A writ was granted, and the election took place on June
7, when the candidates were Mr. Davey, who polled 801 votes; Mr. Barnabas
Leman, 797; and Mr. J. Harvey, 749. The two first-named were returned to
the Court of Aldermen, who elected Mr. Leman, and he was sworn into
office on June 22.
6.--A rowing match took place between four 4-oared boats from Carrow
Bridge to Whitlingham and back, for a silver cup. The Zephyr (Mr.
Yarrington) won. Distance, four miles; time, 36 minutes.
15.--A historical drama, entitled "The Siege of Sarragossa, or Spanish
Patriots of 1808," by Mr. Bennett, a member of the company, was produced
at Norwich Theatre.
17.--The birthday of the Princess of Wales was observed in Norwich for
the first time by the ringing of the church bells.
23.--Died at Bangalore, in his 26th year, Capt. Robert Beauchamp, of the
Hon. East India Company's Horse Artillery, Madras Establishment, third
son of Sir Thomas Beauchamp Proctor, Bart., Langley Park.
24.--The Bishop of Norwich commenced his ordinary visitation of the
diocese, at Thetford, and on the following day at St. Peter's Church,
confirmed upwards of 700 persons. At St. James's Church, Bury St.
Edmund's, his lordship confirmed 2,700 young persons; at Ipswich, 1,300;
Woodbridge, 600; Framlingham, 700; Downham Market, 1,000; St. Nicholas'
Chapel, Lynn, 1,000; Redenhall, 662; at Norwich Cathedral, 800; and in
the city and hamlets, 1,000. The Bishop expressed the opinion "that the
number confirmed in the diocese, which was much increased since the last
confirmation, was decisive of the laudable exertions of the clergy."
--The bounds of the parish of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, were
perambulated, "the officiating individuals being saluted at every part of
the parochial confines by sprinklings as memorials of the occasion. The
water ordeal being gone through, the gentleman repaired to a good dinner
and the cheerful glass." On the 26th "the bounds of St. Andrew's were in
like manner ascertained."
30.--Three African youths taken out of a Portuguese slave ship by Capt.
the Hon. P. F. Irby, of the Amelia frigate, and sent by him to Norwich
for education, were baptised at St. Peter Mancroft Church.