1.--Four candidates were nominated at the Mayoral Election at Norwich. A
poll was demanded, and the result was declared on the same day (Sunday)
as follows:--Alderman Day, 679; Alderman Booth, 579; Alderman Leman, 152;
Alderman Burt, 150. "It is somewhat singular that the father of the
Mayor-elect was also chosen on a Sunday, May Day so falling in 1808."
9.--The Norwich Museum was opened at a house in the Upper Haymarket.
14.*--"The work of constructing the new Theatre was commenced, at
Norwich, last week. Mr. Wilkins is the architect and patentee, and the
site is nearly adjoining to the ground on which the present Theatre
stands, and at the back of the green rooms."
29.--At Yarmouth Quarter Sessions, before the Recorder (Mr. Robert
Alderson), Mary Neal, aged 42, Susan Neal (21), her daughter, and William
Neal (18), son, were charged with attempting to murder the family of Mr.
Hales, cordwainer, of Howard Street, Yarmouth, by poisoning them. It was
alleged that the female prisoners persuaded William Neal, an apprentice
of the prosecutor, to place arsenic in the food of his master's family to
avenge some fancied grievance. Mr. and Mrs. Hales and their children
narrowly escaped death. Sentence of death, afterwards commuted to
transportation, was recorded.
30.--The members of a newly established club, called the Norwich Loyal
Society, held their first anniversary dinner at the Wheat Sheaf Inn,
Bethel Street, in commemoration of the birthday of Pitt.