y have but one mast, which lets down, and carry only one
large square sail, are covered close by hatches, and have a cabin
superior to many coasting vessels, in which oftentimes the keelman and
his family live; they require only two persons to navigate them, and
sometimes perform their passage (thirty-two miles) in five hours.

Norwich has experienced of late years, a number of improvements; the
lighting is much more brilliant, and better regulated than formerly; the
paving also, which is in great forwardness, and the alterations
consequent thereon, have already much improved many parts, and will when
finished, add greatly to the beauty of the city, and to the convenience
and comfort of the inhabitants and occasional visitors. The act for
paving the streets, &c. was obtained in June 1808, and empowers the
commissioners to levy on all houses laid to the poor-rate, four shillings
in the pound on the half-rental, and one shilling and four pence in the
pounds on such houses &c. as do not pay to the poor-rate, computed on
half their annual value; also by a frontage of two-pence per running
foot. The commissioners under the paving act are one hundred and
thirty-six in number; sixty-three permanent, besides the Mayor, Aldermen,
Sheriffs, Recorder, Steward, the Speaker of the Commons, the Rev. the
Dean and Prebendary, in all thirty-one, and forty-two Parochial
Commissioners, chosen annually. Clerk's office on Elm-hill, there are
also a surveyor and four collectors of the rates.

Among the modern institutions of the city is one which serves to shew
that the fine arts are encouraged even at this distance from the
metropolis; this is a "_Society of Artists_," the members of which have
made an annual public exhibition of their pictures, for the last few
years, during the Assize and following week, at their room in Sir
Benjamin Wrenche's court, St. John's Maddermarket, where they also hold a
meeting once a fortnight. If societies of this kind were more
encouraged, instead of that deformity, which disgraces many modern
alterations, beauty, consistency, and propriety would be introduced.

Two mail coaches run daily between London and Norwich; a double bodied
coach, called the Expedition, by Newmarket daily, and a post coach by
Bury three times a week;--they all leave Norwich in the afternoon, and
arrive in London the following morning. A Lynn and Norwich Expedition by
Dereham and Swaffham, leave Norwich on Tuesday, Thursday and