5.--Died at Scratby Hall, the Countess Dowager Home, aged 68.
--*"At the last General Quarter Sessions of the peace for the borough of
Lynn, before Mr. Robert Bevill, Recorder, Mrs. Ann Clarke received the
awful sentence of death for wilfully and maliciously attempting to stab
her husband, Mr. W. Clarke, a ship master, with intention to murder him."
The prisoner was afterwards reprieved, and the sentence commuted to
transportation for life.
--Arrived at Yarmouth, Capt. Spencer, of that port, who had escaped from
France, where he had for four years been a prisoner of war in the
fortress of Bitche.
18.--Died, at Hethel Hall, in his 89th year, Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart. An
active magistrate for more than half a century, he was created baronet
during the Whig administration of the Duke of Portland in 1783.
--Died, at Walsham, Suffolk, aged 69, the Very Rev. Coombe Miller, Dean
of Chichester and rector of Winfarthing and Snetterton. He was buried at
Eccles, near Attleborough.
22.--The Corporation of Norwich subscribed 100 pounds to the fund for
relieving the distresses of the unfortunate sufferers in Germany.
26.--In the Arches Court, Doctors' Commons, was heard a cause for the
restitution of conjugal rights promoted by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Thomas
Beevor, of Mangreen Hall, against Ann Beevor. The parties were married
at the parish church, Hargham, on August 24th, 1795, and cohabited
together until June 30th, 1802, when Mrs. Beevor left her husband's
house, and some time after promoted a suit of divorce or separation by
reason of his cruelty. In that suit Mr. Beevor was dismissed from the
cause. In this case the court admonished Mrs. Beevor to return again to
the society of her husband.
28.--Died at Cardiff, Lieut. W. H. Clifford, husband of Mrs. Clifford, of
the Norwich Theatre.