MAY.
4.*—“Last week 100 stand of arms were received at our barracks for the Norwich Enrolled Pensioners. The dress consists of a peaked, glazed cap, with scarlet band and star in front, a blue frock coat, similar to those worn by the French infantry, with scarlet epaulettes edged with brass, and dark mixture trousers with broad red stripes. Sergeants will be each armed with a light carbine and cutlass. The whole will be called out occasionally for exercise and drill.”
6.—A troop of the 4th Light Dragoons arrived at Norwich.
—The Bishop of Norwich confirmed 1,277 persons at the Cathedral.
18.—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry commenced eight days’ permanent duty at Holt.
20.—Mr. Govett, formerly assistant minister at St. Stephen’s church, Norwich, “whose eccentricities were often the cause of great pain to many members of the congregation,” was baptised at Mr. Brock’s chapel, “with six young ladies whom he had persuaded unhappily to follow his errors.”
JUNE.
1.—The season terminated at Norwich Theatre. The manager (Mr. G. Smith) said, in the course of his customary address: “Having been for nearly 30 years a member of the company, I am most reluctantly compelled to chronicle the one now closing as the very worst season within my recollection.”
19.—Died at Knapton, aged 59, Mr. Jeffreson Mills, Commander R.N. He served from 1799 until the Peace in 1815. “During his career he assisted at the capture of 26 line of battleships, 18 frigates, and 21 sloops of war and privateers. He was the author of a masterly vindication of Lord Nelson’s proceedings in the Bay of Naples.”
22.*—“The fatal ball by which Nelson received his death wound, and which was in the possession of the late Sir W. Beatty, M.D., R.N., at his death came into possession of Col. Beatty, R.M., and his brother, Mr. Vincent Beatty, ci-devant captain of the late 24th Light Dragoons, by whom it has been presented to her Majesty, and most graciously received. The ball, with the particles of the coat and epaulette which were forced into the body, is neatly and elegantly set within a crystal case, which is appropriately mounted with a double cable coiled around its circumference. It opens like a watch.”