1.--Mr. Thomas Amyot, formerly private secretary to the Right Hon.
William Windham, deceased, and a resident in Norwich, was appointed
Registrar under the Act for establishing a Registry of Colonial Slaves in
Great Britain.
3.--Two troops of the 9th Lancers, commanded by Capt. Daly, arrived in
Norwich to replace the 15th Light Dragoons ordered to Manchester.
4.--A prize fight took place in Kirby Park between Cox, the Norwich
blacksmith, and Christopher Barlee, the Berghapton Groom. Seventy-two
rounds were fought, and Cox won. Upwards of 5,000 persona were present.
10.--At the reception of his Majesty's Judges of Assize at Norwich the
coach of the High Sheriff of Norfolk (Sir W. W. Dalling) was drawn by a
team of six piebald horses, "preceded by a full retinue"; and the City
Sheriffs rode in a coach drawn by four greys, and attended by their
servants.
--Married, at Quidenham Church, by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, Mr.
James Macdonald, M.P., only son of Sir Archibald Macdonald, Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer, to the Right Hon. Lady Sophia Keppel, eldest
daughter of the Earl of Albemarle. A grand entertainment was given to
the gentry, yeomanry, and poor of the neighbourhood in tents erected in
the park; sports were held, and among the banners displayed were those
taken at the Havanna by the late earl.
11.--At the Norfolk Assizes, which commenced at Norwich on this date,
John Pycraft, of Westwick, was charged before Mr. Justice Burrough, with
administering arsenic to his infant child, in consequence of which it
died. The prisoner, who made no defence, was, after a trial of six
hours, found guilty and sentenced to death, "his body to be delivered to
the surgeons to be anatomised." The execution took place on the Castle
Hill on the 16th. "The culprit had a diminutive form and decrepid
figure; when the platform fell his chest expanded at intervals during the
space of seven or eight minutes, although every precaution was taken to
shorten his sufferings by the addition of some heavy appendages. After
dissection had been performed the body was exposed to public view at the
Shirehouse for one hour."
12.--Married at Holkham, by the Rev. Charles Anson, Archdeacon of
Carlisle, the Earl of Rosebery to the Hon. Anne Margaret Anson, eldest
daughter of Viscount Anson, deceased.
14.--Messrs. R. Goose, Goldings, and Co., advertised that the "Real
Telegraph" coach which ran from the Rampant Horse Inn, Norwich, at seven
in the morning and arrived in London at eight in the evening, had "no
concern whatever with the coach starting from the Angel, and called 'The
Telegraph.'" The fares were:--Inside, 1 pound 4s.; outside, 14s.
--The Norwich Society of Artists announced its 15th annual exhibition of
pictures at its room in Sir Benjamin Wrenche's Court. This year there
was no rival exhibition.
23.--The Duke of Sussex, as Grand Master of England, installed Mr. T. W.
Coke, M.P., as Provincial Grand Master at a Masonic gathering which took
place in Norwich.
--The proprietors of the Expedition coach commenced running the Defence
day coach, from the White Swan Yard, St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, to the
Angel Inn at the back of St. Clement's Church, Strand. The up journey
was performed on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the down on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday. Fares.--inside, 21s.; outside, 12s. The
Expedition night coach ran as usual.
28.--Edward Fisher, convicted at the previous Norfolk Assizes of stabbing
William Harrison, was executed on the Castle Hill, Norwich. "After
receiving the sacrament he long held the cup and bread with the wildest
expression of agony in his eyes and features. He left a wife and seven
children to lament the unhappy end of a husband and father. He was of a
reserved, sullen, and gloomy temper, in his religious profession a
Methodist, and to a certain degree of unsound mind."