1.--Died at his house in Charles Street, Berkeley Square, the Right Hon.
Lord Suffield, his Majesty's Lieutenant of Norfolk. His lordship, who
was in his 54th year, dying without issue, he was succeeded in his title
and estates by his brother, the Hon. Edward Harbord, M.P. for
Shaftesbury. The remains of his lordship arrived at Aylsham, and lay in
state at the Black Boys Inn on August 12th, and the funeral took place at
Gunton on the 13th.
4.*--"In the recent creation of baronets are Major-General Sir Edward
Kerrison and Mr. Astley Paston Cooper, surgeon to his Majesty's person."
6.--The Norwich Assurance Company and the Norwich Union Society combined
their establishments under the style of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance
Society, with a capital of 550,000 pounds.
9.--Official intelligence was received in Norwich of the death of Queen
Caroline. Her Majesty died at Bradenburgh House, Hammersmith, on the
7th.
10.--The organ in Loddon church, the gift of Mr. Thomas Reynolds, of
Chedgrave, was opened with a performance of sacred music by Messrs.
Pettet and Woolman. The principal vocalists were Miss Gaskill, of
Norwich Theatre, Mrs. Card, and Mr. French; and the instrumental band was
composed of Norwich and Yarmouth amateurs. "Tickets: middle aisle, 3s.;
side aisle, 2s."
11.*--"A troop of the 4th Dragoons arrived here last week to replace the
troop of 9th Lancers, who have gone to Canterbury."
--*"Died, last week, at Surlingham, Mrs. Elizabeth Utting, in her 104th
year."
14.--Mr. Justice Richardson, in charging the Grand Jury at the Norwich
Summer Assizes, made reference to the large number of street robberies
and burglaries that had taken place in the city. "Several persons had
their pockets picked in court; one man was detected in the act, and was
committed to Bridewell."
17.--Among the civil actions tried at the Norwich Assizes, before Sir
Robert Dallas, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, was that of
Crawcour _v._ Smith. It was for the recovery of the cost of a suit of
clothes, &c., bought by the plaintiff in consequence of having received
from the defendant a fictitious card of invitation to dine at the Guild
feast in 1820. The defendant, who admitted the sending of the card, was
heard to remark that "he would rather undergo transportation than not see
the plaintiff (a Jew dentist) at the door of the Guildhall in his pomps
and opera hat." Counsel for the defendant endeavoured to show that the
order for the apparel was given subsequent to the plaintiff receiving
notice of the fictitiousness of the card; and he argued that even if he
had gone to the feast he could not have partaken of it without incurring
the censure of the higher orders of his religion. Mr. Sergeant Blossett,
for the plaintiff, replied that "of the 600 covers placed on the tables
on Guild Day there were several of which Mr. Crawcour might partake
without injury either of his soul or his stomach." The jury found for
the plaintiff--damages 1s. (Mr. Crawcour on September 23rd met with a
terrible accident on Tombland. The horse, which he was driving, ran
away, and he was thrown from the vehicle. His leg was fractured in so
shocking a manner that immediate amputation was rendered necessary.)
18.--Col. the Hon. John Wodehouse, M.P., was appointed his Majesty's
Lieutenant, Vice-Admiral of the county, and Custos Rotulorum, in place of
the late Lord Suffield.
20.--A fire took place on the premises of Mr. Cross, Lower Earlham, by
which his barns and outhouses, hay, corn, and straw stacks were
destroyed. The damage was estimated at 1,000 pounds.
21.--Belzoni, the celebrated traveller and discoverer of Egyptian
antiquities, visited Norwich, and stayed with Mr. Jeremiah Ives, at his
residence, St. Catherine's Hill, where several gentlemen of the city were
invited to meet him.
22.--Died, aged 72, Mrs. Mary Mountain, of Norwich. "On the first
establishment of the Institution for the Indigent Blind in this city she
tendered her gratuitous services as matron, and for 16 years filled that
situation."
28.--A contest for freemen's Sheriff took place at Norwich. Mr. Joseph
Gibson, 680; Mr. T. O. Springfield, 442. A scrutiny was afterwards
demanded and granted, but was abandoned.