4.--The Norwich Court of Mayoralty memorialised the Committee of Buying
of the East India Company not to suspend their "usual and constant order
for camlets for the China market," as a numerous class of the
manufacturing population of the city derived their chief subsistence from
this source. On March 21st the East India Company invited tenders for
the manufacture of 5,000 pieces.
18.--Mr. Thomas Foyson, aged 53, was accidentally drowned at Norwich by
falling into a vat of vinegar which he was in the act of gauging.
22.--At a Levee held at St. James's Palace, the King conferred the honour
of knighthood upon Mr. John Harrison Yallop, Mayor of Norwich, on his
presenting to his Majesty the address adopted at a Common Hall held in
Norwich in the previous October, on the subject of the Reform Bill.