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 2O6 HENRY CROSS-GROVE, JACOBITE, JOURNALIST AND PRINTER. HEN Mr. Pickwick made his cele- brated excursion to attend the Eatan- swill election, he ' took the Norwich coach ' ; and, apart from this slight indication, Dickens did not assist his readers by telling them in what county Eatanswill was supposed to be situated. It, however, seems to be agreed that Sudbury, in Suffolk, was the town described, though I do not think that the originals of the rival editors, Pott of the 'Gazette,' and Slurk of the c Independent,' have yet been identified. But if Dickens had seen John Cham- bers's c General History of Norfolk,' published in 1829, eight years before the 'Pickwick Papers/ he must have gained a hint from it for his account of the squabbles of the rival editors. The follow- ing newspaper quotation is in the ' General His- tory.' It is an attack on Henry Cross-Grove (as he wrote his name), the writer and printer of the c Norwich Gazette,' and was taken from the ' Norwich Courant,' a whig opposition journal which commenced in 1714; Dico Don Quacko offers his services to cure Henrico Cross-Rogo of his wounds, for his just merit,