8.--The Mayor and Court of Aldermen visited the annual exhibition of the
Norwich Society of Artists.
11.--The Hon. John Wodehouse, as foreman of the Grand Jury at the Norfolk
Assizes, proposed, and Mr. T. W. Coke, M.P., seconded, resolutions
recommending that a subscription be opened for the erection of a monument
to the memory of Lord Nelson. At a meeting of the Norwich Corporation on
October 22nd it was resolved that the city subscribe 200 pounds, and the
Speaker was requested to attend the county meeting, and urge that the
monument be erected on the Castle Hill "or some other commanding
situation in or near the city." At the county meeting, held the same
week, it was announced that the subscriptions amounted to 5,138 pounds.
At a meeting held at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, on January 14th, 1815,
it was resolved that the monument be erected at Yarmouth. The committee,
at a meeting held during the Norfolk Assizes at Thetford on March 29th,
1815, after inspecting 44 plans and designs, "selected an Athenian Doric
column sent by Mr. William Wilkins, architect, of London, a native of
Norwich, and author of 'Magna Graecia.'" Nearly 7,000 pounds was
subscribed.
14.--Died, in Parliament Place, London, aged 85, Mr. E. H. Delaval, of
Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, and of Hoddington, Lincolnshire. "By his
death the mansion house of Seaton Delaval, and the family estate of the
late Lord Delaval, has devolved upon Sir Jacob Henry Astley, Bart., M.P.,
for Norfolk, whose mother was his lordship's eldest sister."
20.*--"The officers of the 7th Hussars have presented Col. Kerrison with
a piece of plate, of the value of 200 guineas, in testimony of their
admiration of his gallantry at the battle of Orthes."
22.--Races were held at Cromer, which at the time was very full of
company, and the "new subscription room" and dances a great attraction to
many distinguished visitors. "From the course being in the immediate
neighbourhood of Gunton and Blickling," it was expected that Cromer races
would "soon vie with those of Yarmouth, &c."
30.--Mr. William Burt and Mr. R. Hawkes were candidates for the office of
freemen's Sheriff at Norwich. The former was returned with 810 votes as
against 726 polled by his opponent. It was stated that "so severe a
contest at the election of Sheriff had not taken place since 1781."