1.--A rowing match for pair-oared boats took place at Whitlingham.
Distance, one and a half miles; the best two heats out of three. The
winner of the silver cup was the Achilles, owned by Mr. Homer.
4.--The Expedition coach entered Norwich, with colours flying, and with
the intelligence of the great victory of the Allied Army at Vittoria
under Lord Wellington on June 21. "Mr. Coldwell, the proprietor of the
coach, himself brought down from London a copy of the 'Gazette
Extraordinary,' and read its glorious contents from the coach box to his
fellow citizens assembled in the Market Place."
7.--The Mayor of Lynn (Mr. John Hemington) laid the foundation stone of
the new Theatre in that town.
10.*--"Among the officers promoted to be lieutenant-colonels in the army
in consequence of the victory at Vittoria is Major Robert John Harvey,
assistant Quarter-Master-General of the Portuguese Army, son of Mr. John
Harvey, Thorpe Lodge, Norwich. This gallant young officer had two horses
severely wounded under him in the battle."
13.--Died, in this 70th year, Mr. Edward Barrow, of St. Saviour, Norwich.
"A native of Manchester, and a yarn factor, Mr. Barrow was the first
person who undertook the manufacture of cotton in this city; but what in
a peculiar manner consecrates his memory is the merit of his having also
been the first manufacturer of the shawl in this city, or perhaps in the
kingdom. This brought in a new history in the era of the loom."
14.--At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions the Rev. Augustus Beevor appeared to
try his traverse for an assault on Daniel Turner on June 4th, 1812. The
Rev. James Carlos had, in consequence of the absence of the rector (the
defendant), gone to officiate at Berghapton, by virtue of the license of
the Bishop of Norwich. Mr. Carlos also farmed the glebe lands, and
Turner was one of his tenants. Turner received a message from the
defendant that he was about to clear the premises of stock belonging to
Mr. Carlos, and on his going to the parsonage he was met by Mr. Beevor,
who "scientifically fibbed him" about the head and face that plaintiff
shrieked aloud for assistance, and two men rescued him from the clutches
of his assailant. The defence was that it was "a square stand-up fight."
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, upon which an arrangement was made
between the parties before the court pronounced judgment. Defendant was
then fined one shilling, and discharged.
17.*--"We are happy to hear that the good effects of the victory of
Vittoria were immediately felt in Norwich, as several manufacturers
received large orders for broad bombazines which are made for the Spanish
market, and which were ordered upon the idea of the whole of the
Peninsula being now open to our trade."
--*"Died, lately, in his 59th year, that ingenious artist, Mr. Henry
Neale. He was the inventor of a model of machinery to represent a cotton
manufactory."
19.--A trotting match, attended with much cruelty, took place between two
ponies belonging to Mr. Howlett, of Fakenham, and Mr. Burgess, of the
same town. They were matched to trot twice to and from Norwich, a
distance of 100 miles, in the least time. "They both performed the first
50 miles in five and a quarter hours. Howlett's pony, however, became
quite exhausted when it reached the sixth mile-stone coming to Norwich on
the second time and gave in. Burgess pursued his journey to Norwich, and
returned as far as Morton, where the poor beast died almost immediately.
Howlett's reached Fakenham much injured."
21.--The annual meeting of the Unitarian Society was held at Norwich.
The Rev. Robert Aspland, of Hackney, preached at the Octagon Chapel, and
the members dined at the Swan Inn, under the presidency of Mr. John
Taylor.
24.*--"Mr. Powell, of Weeting (familiarly called 'Pogey Powell'), who
shot the late Lord Falkland in a duel, was killed a few days ago by a
fall from his horse, near Worwell, Hampshire."
27.--Died at her house in Pall Mall, in her 79th year, the Hon. Mrs.
Keppel, widow of the late Hon. Dr. Keppel, Bishop of Exeter, aunt of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, and mother of Mr. Frederick
Keppel, of Lexham Hall.
31.*--"Died, lately, Susanna, the wife of Thomas Bolton, of Bradenham,
eldest daughter of the late Rev. Edmund Nelson, of Burnham Thorpe, and
sister of our immortal Nelson, still more happy in her virtues than in
her lineage."