2.--A meeting of the dyers, dressers, and manufacturers was held at the
Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. John Harvey, chairman of
the manufacturing interest, to consider "the most effectual means of
checking the violation of the Sabbath, which has of late arisen to a most
shameful height, in consequence of the recent increase in the trade of
the city"; and the notice "on the part of the dyers and dressers of
bombazines announcing to the manufacturers the conditions on which alone
they had agreed to conduct their business, namely that of holding goods
which they may have in hand at the time of any bankruptcy or failure as a
lien for any balance due to them on their accounts." The meeting was
adjourned _sine die_.
6.*--"The Rev. Alfred Inigo Fox, of Woodton Hall, has assumed the surname
of Suckling only, with the arms of Suckling, quarterly, with his own,
pursuant to the will of the late Robert Suckling, of Woodton Hall."
9.--Mr. Mathews appeared at Norwich Theatre in his entertainments, "At
Home," "A Trip to Paris," and "Country Cousins."
--At Norwich Quarter Sessions, Sarah Powell, keeper of a boarding school,
was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for cruelly ill-treating and
wounding Mary Ann Phillips, aged 6.5 years.
13.--At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, the case of the King on the
prosecution of Robert Leamon, the younger, against Edmund Heagren Gibbs
for assault, was tried. The defendant, an opulent farmer living at
Quarles, pleaded guilty to the charge. The offence was committed in
Fakenham Market Place, and it was alleged that the defendant several
times struck the plaintiff with a jockey whip. He was fined 300 pounds.
22.--Mr. Dowton appeared at Norwich Theatre as Sir Peter Teazle and
Restive ("Turn Out"). On succeeding evenings he took the parts of Job
Thornberry, Sir Anthony Absolute, Barnaby Brittle, Old Drugget ("Three
Weeks after Marriage"), Sheva ("The Jew"), &c.
27.*--(Advt.) "100 pounds Reward. Whereas at about nine o'clock on the
evening of the 22nd inst., Mr. John Thurtell was attacked in Chapel
Field, Norwich, by three men, knocked down, and robbed of a pocket book
containing 1,508 pounds in notes, thirteen of which were of the Bank of
England, value 100 pounds each, and the name of John Thurtell is endorsed
on them. Notice is hereby given that whoever will give information which
might lead to the apprehension and conviction of the persons concerned in
this robbery, shall be paid the above reward on applying to Mr. Thurtell;
and any person concerned in the robbery who will give information of his
accomplices will receive the reward and a free pardon. Norwich, January
23rd, 1821." (In the following week it was announced that a commission
of bankruptcy had issued against John Thurtell and John Giddens,
bombazine manufacturers, dealers, and chapmen. Soon afterwards Thurtell
absconded.)
29.--The first anniversary of the King's Accession to the Throne was
celebrated in Norwich by peals on the bells of St. Peter Mancroft, and of
several of the minor parishes of the city. At Methwold a lad named T.
Coates, aged 11, rang second in a peal of single bob major, and "the
company challenged England for his equal."