3.--Shore's menagerie was exhibited on the Castle Ditches, Norwich.
5.--The Norwich Court of Guardians determined to proceed with the
valuation of property in the city and hamlets. Messrs. Rooks, Athow, and
Stannard were appointed to make the valuation at the remuneration of 850
pounds.
6.--Twelfth Day was observed in Norwich, "when the confectioners made a
grand display of their frosted and ornamented cakes. Mr. Turner, of the
Gentleman's Walk, had one weighing 220 pounds and measuring three yards
in circumference. It was sawn to pieces next day." Mr. and Mrs.
Patteson gave a Twelfth Night ball and supper at their residence in
Surrey Street, at which 140 guests were present.
8.--At a meeting, presided over by Mr. T. O. Springfield, at the Swan
Inn, Norwich, resolutions were moved by Mr. Edward Taylor, and a
subscription raised to testify "the estimation in which they hold the
extraordinary and intrepid exertions of Mr. Hone, in defence of the
liberty of the Press, and to assist to defray the expenses of his
repeated prosecutions."
--Died, aged 100 years, Ashton Goodyer, formerly keeper of the workhouse
at Tilney.
13.--At a county meeting held at the Shirehall, under the presidency of
the High Sheriff (Mr. H. N. Burroughes), addresses of condolence with the
Prince Regent and Prince Leopold on the death of the Princess Charlotte,
were moved by Lord Walpole and seconded by the Hon. Col. Wodehouse. The
Ven. Archdeacon Bathurst opposed the addresses on account of the omission
of the name of the Princess of Wales, and moved as an amendment "That any
addresses to the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold, unaccompanied by an
address to the Princess of Wales, would operate as an insulting neglect
to one of the first characters in the Royal Family, and as a disrespect
to the memory of her who was the pride and hope of the British people."
The amendment was seconded by Mr. N. Palmer, of Yarmouth. The High
Sheriff objected to put the amendment, as the name of the Princess of
Wales had not been included in the requisition. The addresses were then
adopted. Archdeacon Bathurst alone dissenting.
15.--Lord and Lady Castlereagh and Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian
ambassador, passed through Norwich on their return to London after a
visit to Lord Suffield at Blickling.
16.--Died at Old Windsor, aged 71, the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, of
Merton Hall. He was the only son of Sir William de Grey, several years
Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas. In 1787 he was appointed joint
Postmaster-General, and to within two years of his death had been
chairman of the Committees of Privileges, &c., in the House of Lords.
19.--At a meeting of the inhabitants of Yarmouth, held at the New Hall,
upwards of 6,000 pounds was subscribed for aiding a plan to extend the
navigation of the river Waveney from Bungay to Diss. The sum of 5,000
pounds was raised in the latter town. At a meeting held at Bungay on
February 5th the scheme was opposed by the landowners through whose
property the projected canal was to pass. On February 13th the
inhabitants of Thetford met to oppose the undertaking, as it was likely
to be injurious to the tolls of the Lesser Ouse. It was announced on
February 28th that 20,000 pounds had been subscribed, and that the
expense of carrying the scheme into execution would be 36,931 pounds. A
meeting was held at Yarmouth on March 10th, at which it was decided "out
of respect to Mr. Adair and the rest of the proprietors to defer
application to Parliament until the ensuing Session." Ultimately the
scheme was abandoned. In the course of the discussions on the project,
"it was thrown out in a highly respectable quarter that the end in view
might be answered and all objections obviated by the substitution of an
iron railway for a canal." (This is the first instance in which a
"railway" is mentioned in the NORFOLK CHRONICLE.)
--Mr. Sinclair, from Covent Garden Theatre, appeared at the Theatre
Royal, Norwich, as Orlando ("The Cabinet"), Apollo (in the burletta of
"Midas"), and Henry Bertram ("Guy Mannering").
26.--The stacks of Mr. John Balls, farmer, Lessingham, were destroyed by
fire, his calves suspended by their necks from a beam in an outhouse, and
other outrages committed. At the Norfolk Assizes, held at Thetford in
the month of March, James Thompson was indicted for firing the stacks,
and, after a trial lasting five hours, was acquitted.
31.--Miss Davison, of Drury Lane, commenced an engagement at Norwich
Theatre, during which she appeared as Lady Teazle, Priscilla Tomboy ("The
Romp"), Lady Bell ("Know your own Mind"), Roxalana ("The Sultan"), and
Lady Racket ("Three Weeks after Marriage").