9.--Mr. De Hague's portrait, painted by Sir William Beechey, was hung in
St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich.
12.--Died, aged 83, Mr. Burks, one of the proprietors of the "Norwich
Mercury."
16.--Messrs. T. H. and W. Day, of the Norwich and Swaffham Bank,
announced that they were compelled to suspend their payments. On the
17th it was made known that a docket had been struck preparatory to a
commission of bankruptcy being issued against the firm.--Messrs.
Fincham's Bank at Diss stopped payment at about the same date owing to
the sudden death of Mr. Benjamin Fincham on November 19th, but was
re-opened on January 9th, 1826.
20.--The Rev. Robert Forby, rector of Fincham, was found drowned in his
bath. It was supposed that he was seized with sudden faintness while
bathing.
27.--Died at Tittleshall parsonage, the Rev. Dixon Hoste, aged 76, for
many years an acting magistrate in the Hundred of Launditch.
28.--A public meeting at Lynn approved a plan for constructing a bridge
and embankment over the Cross Keys Wash, in order to establish direct
communication between the whole of Norfolk and part of Suffolk with
Lincolnshire and the north of England.
31.--Wombwell exhibited his menagerie on the Castle Hill, Norwich, and
advertised as an attraction "the two unequalled lions, Nero and Wallace,
the same who fought and conquered the dogs at Warwick."
1826.