The Borrows took up their quarters at the Crown and Angel in St
Stephen's Street, a thoroughfare that connects the main roads from
Ipswich and Newmarket with the city. George, now eleven years old,
had an opportunity of continuing his education at the Norwich Grammar
School, whilst his brother proceeded to study drawing and painting
with a "little dark man with brown coat . . . and top-boots, whose
name will one day be considered the chief ornament of the old town,"
{15a} and whose works are to "rank among the proudest pictures of
England,"--the Norwich painter, "Old Crome." {15b}

Whilst the two boys were thus occupied, Louis XVIII. was endeavouring
to reorder his kingdom, and on a little island in the Mediterranean,
Napoleon was preparing a bombshell that was to shatter the peace of
Europe and send Captain Borrow hurrying hither and thither in search
of the men who, a few months before, had left the colours, convinced
that a generation of peace was before them.

On 1st March Napoleon was at Cannes; eighteen days later Louis XVIII.
fled from Paris. Everywhere there were feverish preparations for
war. John Borrow threw aside pencil and brush and was gazetted
ensign in his father's regiment (29th May). Europe united against
the unexpected and astonishing danger. By the time Captain Borrow
had finished his task, however, the crisis was past, Waterloo had
been won and Napoleon was on his way to St Helena.

By a happy inspiration it was decided to send the West Norfolks to
Ireland, where "disturbances were apprehended" and private stills
flourished. On 31st August the regiment, some eight hundred strong,
sailed in two vessels from Harwich for Cork, the passage occupying