6.*--"Last week two troops of the 5th Dragoon Guards, under the command
of Major Irwin, marched into Norwich Barracks, and relieved the two
troops of the Royal Dragoons, ordered to Scotland."
10.--The Bishop of Norwich confirmed 800 persons of both sexes at a
special service held at Norwich Cathedral.
13.*--"Died lately, at Madrid, at the house of her sister, Lady
Whitlingham, Barbara, wife of Mr. Bartholomew Frere, his Majesty's
secretary to the Embassy at the Ottoman Porte. The marriage had been
solemnized by proxy according to the usual forms, but Mr. Frere having
been detained at Constantinople, neither had the happiness of seeing each
other since their union."
26.--Skipper, the pedestrian, undertook to walk 60 miles in 12 successive
hours on the bowling-green at the King's Head Inn, East Dereham. "He was
so exhausted in the last two miles that he could not accomplish his
task."
--A meeting was held in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, when an auxiliary
association to the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the
Jews was established, with the Lord Bishop as president.
27.--Died at Kirby Cane parsonage, from injuries received by the
accidental discharge of a gun, the Hon. C. J. Keppel, fifth son of the
Earl of Albemarle.
--A party of Indian jugglers gave a performance at Mr. Noverre's
ball-room, "near Messrs. Gurney's bank," Norwich.