George Morton, for a mode of attaching horses to four-wheeled carriages.

Joseph Baader, M. D. Knt. of Bavaria, for an improved plan of constructing rail-roads, and carriages to be used on them.

James Dutton, jun. for improvements in fulling mills.

Allan Taylor, Daniel Gallafent, sen. and jun. for an engine for raising cold and hot water.

George Young, for a method of making a peculiar species of canvas for military and other purposes.

John Malzi, for an instrument called a metranome, or musical time-keeper.

Marquis de Chambonnes, for a method of conducting the air and regulating the temperature in houses and other buildings.

Christopher Dihl, for improvements in distillation.

James Lee, for improvements in his methods of preparing hemp and flax.

Samuel Clegg, for an improved gas apparatus.

Davis Redmund, for a machine for the manufacture of corks and bungs.

Robert Kinder, for a method of propelling ships, boats, and other vessels.

Robert Dickinson, for an im

provement in the hooping of barrels.

William Adamson, for a principle by which a horizontal wheel may be so moved about its axis by water, as to give it a greater power than in any other position.

William Plenty, for an improved plough.

John Millington, for improved machinery for propelling floating vessels in the water.

John Budgem, for a process of reducing rags and other articles in making paper, after they have been used, into their original state.

John Geo. Drake, for a method of expelling the molasses out of refined sugar.

William Baynham, for a composition for making leather and other articles water-proof.

Joseph Manton, for improvements in the construction of firearms, and in shoeing horses.

Francis Turrell, for a wheelguard.

George Fred. Muntz, for a method of abating smoke, and obtaining a valuable product therefrom.

John Wood, and Joshua Wordsworth, for improvements in machinery for spinning.

Bryan Donkin, for a method for effecting processes in which a tempe

temperature above that of boiling water is requisite.

John Leigh Bradbury, for improvements in spinning machinery.

P. F. Montgolfier, and H. D. Dayme, for improvements in a machine which acts by the expansion or contraction of heated air.

P. F. Montgolfier, for improvements on the machine called Hydraulic Ram.

William and Daniel West, for methods of applying power and motion to presses and other mechanical apparatus.

James Dawson, for improved means of producing motion in bodies wholly or in part surrounded by water or air.

Enoch Tonkin, for a globe-reflecting stove for light or heat.

John and William Fitkin and Joseph Barton, for a new truss.

Samuel Jean Pauly, for an article for making without seams any kind of clothing; covering for umbrellas, &c.; and cushions filled with atmospherical air.

Samuel Brown, for improvements on the swing plough.

Robert Cameron, for a new machine for manufacturing paper.

Emerson Dowson, and John Is. Hawkins, for improvements on grates and stoves.

Uriah Hadock, for a new species of paint for the exterior of houses, ships, &c.

William Macnamara, for a method of manufacturing glass. John Sorby, for an auger of improved construction.

James Younie, for prevention of smoky chimnies.

Abraham Rogers, for a method for saving the consumption of fuel by the setting of boilers, &c.

Henry Osborne, for a method of producing various cylinders. William Lewis, for a machine for fulling cloth.

Joseph Turner, for an improved rotary engine.

William Alkinson, for a method of forming blocks with bricks to imitate stone.

John Woodhouse, for a method of forming the ground for roads and pavements.

William Stenson, for an improved engine to be worked by steam, &c.

William Lassalle, for a new contrivance for improvement in the construction of machines or instruments in clothing or other manufactories.

George Bodley, for an improved metallic engine, to work by steam

or water.

John Collyer, for a machine for shearing woollen cloths.

John Rangeley, for improvements in his hydropneumatic engine.

Robert Copeland, for saving in the consumption of fuel.

William Threadgold, for a machine to prevent obstructions to the passage of smoke in chimnies.

Richard Banks, for improvements on wheeled carriages. Benj Rotch, for a flexible elastic horseshoe.

Daniel Wilson, for improved apparatus in distillation. Thomas Roxton, for an improved

thod for carrying tunnels or archways under rivers.

Philip Taylor, for a method of applying heat to liquors, and in several processes.

Francis Richardson, for improvements in fire-arms.

Christoph. Dihl, for improvements in the making of mastic or cement, and applying it.

George Dodgson, for improving the construction of extinguishing engines and forming pumps.

Isaac Hadley Reddell, for improvements in the means of lighting the interior of offices, &c.

Robert Kemp, for improvements in the manufacturing of cocks and keys.

James Heathcoate, for improvements in the machinery for making hosiery, or frame-work knitted.

John Ransome, for improvements on ploughs.

William Shand, for improvements in the construction of artificial legs and feet.

John Foulerton, for improvements in beacon buoys.

Edward Light, for improvements on the harp-lute.

John Burnet, for a convolving iron axle-tree for the reduction of friction and animal labour.

John Hawkins Barlow, for im provements on tea-urns, tea-pots, tea-boards, or tea-trays.

John Barlow, for a new cooking apparatus.

John Towers, for a tincture for the cure of coughs, &c.

Henry Warburton, for a method of distilling certain substances and manufacturing their products.

A GENERAL BILL of all the CHRISTENINGS and BURIALS within the BILLS of MORTALITY, LONDON, from December 12, 1815, to December 10, 1816.

Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls 983-Buried 1107. Christened in the 17 parishes without the walls 5061-Buried 3959.

Christened in the 23 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surry 12510- Buried 10104. Christened in the 10 parishes in the city and liberties of Westminster 5027-Buried 5136

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1 Palsy

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195

Under two years of age.
Between two and five..
Five and ten ........
Ten and twenty

5400

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Water in the chest.... Worms...

Twenty and thirty. 1464 | Sixty and seventy..... 1720 | A hundred Thirty and forty 1012 Seventy and eighty... Forty and fifty.. ........ 2123 Eighty and ninety.. Fifty and sixty Ninety and a hundred.. Increased in the burials this year 756.

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There have been executed in the city of London and county of Surrey, 25 of which number 16 only have been reported to be buried within the bills of mortality.

89

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3

48

15

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2 Frighted.

1 Killed by falls and several 653 other accidents...

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Total

354

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