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Sherif, figned by 120 gentlemen (among 
whom were Lords GuitprorpD, MaynarD, 
and Petree, five baronets, and three members 
of parliament) to confider of the propriety of 
atidrefing the king, ‘¢ 2o difmifs from his coun- 
cils thofe minifters whofe meafures have reduced 
us to our prefent calamitous fituation,” &c. a 
meeting of the county was held, May 29, 
when F€. Honreywoop, efq. moved a peti- 
tion fuitable to the tenor of the requifition, 
which was feconded by Lord Vifcount May- 
Waxp. Mr, Mayenpiz moved an acjourn- 
ment, on which the queftion for a divifion 
was loudly and repeatedly called for. This 
was refufed by the fherit, who abruptly dif. 
folved the meetirg; the original motion was, 
of courfe, loft. Thus the moft numeryous af- 
fembly of the county ever before remembered, 
was prevented from exprefling its opinion.cn 
the very important queftion, for the decifion 
of which, alone, the freeholders had been 
convened! Capies, however, of the petition 
moved by Mr. Honrywoopd, wefe aitcr- 
wards circulated throughout the county, ana 
Signed by great numbers of the inhabitants, &e 
G. Downine, efq. of Gvington, was lately 
inflalled at Cheimsiord, with great pomp, 
Provincial Grand Mafter of the Order of Free- 
Matons for this county. On this oceafion, the 
fum of 1071. 2s. was -colleted among the 
brethren prefent, for the ufe of the Free: 
Mafons’ Charity for Female Children, in St. 
George’s Fields, near Londen. 
Died. J—Aged 17, Mr. T. Budworth, of 
Bigh Laver. Mr. W. Gibfon, of -Hadleigh. 
Aged 26, Mrs. Withett, of Dedham. Aged 
34, Mrs. Suf. Greenwoood, of Halftead, a 
quaker. At Witham, R. Callis, elg. formerly 
an officer of dragoons. J. Utttrton, efg. of 
Cobbin-Houfe, near Waltham Abbey. Mifs 
F. Nightingale, of Roxwell. At Thaxtead, 
the sev. Mr, Mafon, curate. The Hon. Mrs, 
Olmius, of New Hall, Boreham. At Chelmf- 
ford, Mr, J. Mixer. Mr. J. Woods; he was 
fuddenly feized with a numbnels in his fet, 
and a pain in his breaft, of which, with. ocher 
paralytic fymptoms, ‘he died: foon afterwards. 
Mr. May, of Maldon. At Colchefter, Mrs. 
Bunnel, wife of Mr. Alderman B, Mifs 
Keymes. Lieut. Elliot, of the 22d regiment, 
in the barracks, in a duel with Mr. Cowan, 
aimfiant furgeon. ‘They both fired together, 
when Lieut..E. wounded Mr. C. in the leg, 
and Mr. C. fhot Lieut. E. through the upper 
pact ef the head, in confequence of which he 
died a few hours afterwards. 
“NORFOLK. — 
Ai a Jate meeting of the freemen, free- 
hoides, and others inhabitants of Norwich, 
in common-hall, it was refolved unanimoufly, 
that a petition fhould be prefented to the 
King, praying him §¢ to difmifs his prefent imi- 
aipers from his councils.” &¢. Among cther repre- 
fentations, the petition urges, that 
feveral objets which have been fucceffively held up 
to public cxpeation, net one has ben chtained 3 
thet a@ flan of intimidation has been adopted, 
whith has made encroachments on Britifh liberty 3 
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_defroyed the furniture. 
© of the 
[ June, 
that the middle claffes are deprived of many of 
their domefiie comfirts 3 that our credit, national 
aad mercaniile, is brought io the brink of ruin; 
that the rapid fpread of difcontent threatens the 
fpeedy approach of new calamities at home, and 
that! a fiorm has been raifed, by the tyranny of 
military law, in the ffter kingdom”? In the con= 
clufion, minifters are declared-to be * MEN 
WHO HAVE FORFEITED THE PUBLIC, 
ESTEEM ;” and the King is requefted “ to re- 
Glace them by others, wisfe wispoM aud INTE- 
GRITY,”’ Gc, Se. It was alfo refolved una- 
nimoufly, that ‘this meeting has been convened 
by legal and confistutional authority, and that any 
petition from this city in oppofition to that now re- 
folved upon, is contrary to the acknowledged man=- 
ner of afcertaining the opinion of the citizens, 
and unbecoming the charaGer of Englifamen.? 
May 29, 14 the evening, feveral brutal out- 
rages were perpetrated at Norwich, by fome fol- 
diers of the Inifkilling Dragoons, quartered in 
that city. Mr. THELWALL having announced 
his intention to deliver two leGtures there, his 
murder was publicly avowed to_ be the object: - 
of thofe ruffians. A little before: the time 
appointed. for the commencement of the lec- 
ture, feven or eight of the Inifkilling Dragoons 
rufhed into the leéture-soom, where feveral per- 
fons of both fexes were aflembled, exclaiming, 
with horrible execrations, “‘ Down with the 
Jacobins,’? *¢ maflacre {them all,’’ &c:3 and 
feconded their threats, by wounding feverely 
with bladgeons, the perfons prefent. The com- 
pany was then difperfed, and the leéture-room 
was inftantly demolifhed. The foldiers after- 
wards proceeded to maltreat the landlord of a 
neighbouring pubiic-houfe, driving him out of 
@ garret-window into the ftreet, and terrifying 
his wife, then in the eighth month of her preg- 
nancy, to fuch a degree, that fhe forced her 
way through a fiight part of the partition into 
‘an adjoining houfe—the houfe they gutted, and 
On the appearance of 
the mayor, the foldiers difperfed, but afterwards 
ailembled to the number of fome hundreds, and 
demolifhed another public-houfe in the neigh- 
bourhood, knocking down, and materially hurt- 
ing many perfons, among whom was an amiable 
young lady of fixteen years of age. The other 
regiments quartered in the city, behaved with 
exemplary good order, nor was there found, in 
the extenfive population of Norwich, more than 
one inhabitant profligate enough to join with 
the military depredators. As there was every 
probability that the outrages would be renewed, 
Mr, THELWALL thought proper to quit the - 
city privately, in a poft chaife, and return to 
London. Among other implements of deftruc- 
tion provid.d by the rioters, was,AN AXE, 
newly ground and fharpened for the occafion. 
Marrizd.}—At Gretna Green, T. A Kerti- 
fon, efq. of Norwich, to Mifs H. Bellman, of 
Wetheringfett, Suffolk. J. Mofeley, efg. of 
Qufden, to Mifs Galway, of Tofts. Captain 
Prefton, in the Oporto trade, to Mifs Tolver,~ 
of Yarmouth. Mr, T. Newton, fen. of Las. 
kenheath, to Mrs. Aggas, Hockuwold, Wil- 
ton; their ages united amounted te nearly 150. 
years 
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