10.--The annual exhibition of "The Norfolk and Norwich Society of
Artists" was advertised to open on this date at the "New Room," Theatre
Plain, Norwich. It was announced that "this Society consists of the
principal part of the original artists." On the same day was advertised
"The 12th annual exhibition of the Norwich Original Society of Artists,
established 1803." The exhibition was to take place during the Assize
week, "in their great room, Sir Benjamin Wrenche's Court, Cockey Lane."
The NORFOLK CHRONICLE makes this comment:--"The schism which has taken
place among the exhibiting artists appears to have been productive of
increased exertions on the part of the respective members of both
societies. Our sincere wish to promote their fame and prosperity, and to
heal rather than to ferment their differences, induces us earnestly to
recommend their performances to the attention and patronage of the public
which they highly deserve."
12.--Mr. Kemble appeared in the part of Cato at Norwich Theatre. On
succeeding evenings he took the characters of Penruddock ("Wheel of
Fortune"), King Lear, Shylock, Sir Giles Overreach ("A New Way to Pay Old
Debts"), and Macbeth.
18.--The Judges of Assize on leaving Norwich passed through Attleborough,
and attended service at the parish church. The Lord Chief Justice, Sir
Vicary Gibbs, in walking through the nave, discovered a stone on which
were his own crest and arms; the inscription thereon was to the memory of
Capt. John Gibbs, who died October 22, 1695. "Mr. Le Neve," says
Blomfield, "calls him the famous Capt Gibbs. He was a celebrated man on
the turf in King Charles the Second's time. He laid a wager of 500
guineas that he drove his light chaise and four horses up and down the
deepest place of the Devil's Ditch on Newmarket Heath, which he performed
by making a very light chaise with a jointed perch, and without any pole,
to the surprise of the spectators."
24.*--"Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte has graciously expressed her
determination not only to wear but to introduce and recommend the
coloured bombazins, manufactured in Norwich." Mr. William Williment was
appointed manufacturer to her Royal Highness.
25.--A woman named Fox, 100 years old, walked from Norwich to Plumstead,
a distance of nearly five miles. "She commenced her journey at eight
o'clock in the morning, rested three hours at her friend's house, and
walking home arrived at Norwich at seven o'clock in the evening."
31.*--"The stupendous undertaking of the tunnel of Tavistock canal,
communicating the Tavy and the Tamar, was engineered by Mr. John Taylor,
jun., of Norwich."
--Thomas Moy was executed on the Castle Hill, Norwich, for sheep
stealing. "He was 33 years of age, farmed 100 acres of land at Binham,
and has left a wife and seven young children."