4.--Died at the Deanery, in his 83rd year, the Very Rev. James Turner,
D.D., F.S.A., Dean of Norwich, Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and
rector of Sudbourne and Orford, Suffolk. He was installed Dean of
Norwich on June 24th, 1790. His remains were interred in the Cathedral
on August 12th. Dean Turner was succeeded by the Hon. and Rev. George
Pellew, Prebendary of Canterbury and of York, and third son of Lord
Viscount Exmouth. Dean Pellew was installed on December 13th.
11.--A libel action, Maitland _v._ Kinnebrook, was tried at the Norwich
Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Alexander. The plaintiff was an
attorney living at North Walsham, and the defendant one of the
proprietors of the "Norwich Mercury." The libel, which the defendant
admitted, was contained in a letter published in the "Mercury." The
plaintiff had provoked and carried on a newspaper correspondence, and
because the defendant published the replies of adversaries of the
plaintiff's own creation, the plaintiff sued him for damages, which the
jury assessed at one farthing.
--Exchange Street, Norwich, was first opened to the public. There was no
communication, however, with St. Andrew's Street, and it was not until
April, 1829, that operations were commenced for the removal of the old
buildings at the north end of the new thoroughfare. That portion of the
street was opened to the public on May 21st, 1832; and public business
was for the first time transacted in the Post Office erected there, on
June 25th, 1832.
--The members of the Norfolk and Suffolk Institution, the new title by
which the Norwich Society of Artists established in 1805 was known,
celebrated the opening of their new gallery in Exchange Street by dining
at the Norfolk Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. J. B. Crome, with Mr.
Stark in the vice-chair. The first exhibition in the new gallery was
opened on the 13th, and was visited in state by the Mayor, Sheriffs, and
Aldermen.
26.--Mr. George Grout was elected freemen's Sheriff at Norwich.