Mr. Benjamin Cook's (Birmingham) for a method of making barrels for fowling-pieces, &c. and ramrods for the same.

Mr. William Congreve's (Londog) for a new principle of measuring time.

Mr. John Carr's (Sheffield) for a method of applying flat ropes, flat bands, &c. to capsterns and windlasses, and also for applying flat or round ropes for the purpose of catching whales.

Mr. Richard Fothergill's (Sunderland), for a machine for dressing hemp.

Mr. John Dickenson's (Ludgate Hill), for his invention of a cannon cartridge paper, manufactured on a new principle.

Mr. Archibald Jones (Stepney), for a method of discharging colours from dyed silks.

Charles Viscount de Vaux's (Chelsea), for a machine which will shew the latitude and longitude at sea: it will also serve as a weighing and measuring machine, &c.

Mr. William Bell's (Birmingham), for making pipes or pumps for conveying water and other liquids.

Mr. John Duff's (Great Pulteney Street), for an invention of snuffers, on a new and improved construction, communicated to Mr. Duff by a foreigner.

Mr. Edward Manley's (Uffculmi, Devon), for a plough.

Mr. John Barton's (Argyle Street, Westminster), for a lamp of a new construction.

Mr. William Hutton's (Sheffield), for a method of making sickles and reaping hooks.

Mr. David Thomas's (Featherstone Buildings), for a perforated vessel, percolator and frame, for making or preparing portable coffee.

Mr. William Shotwell's (York], for certain improvements in the manufacture of mustard.

Mr. Edward Dampier's (Primrose Street, London), for machinery for reducing drugs, &c. into fine powder.

Mr. Joseph Cuffs (Whitechapel), for a new method of slaughtering cattle, &c.

Mr. Edward Thomason's (Birmingham), for a new method of manufacturing umbrellas, parasols,

of hanging the bodies, and of constructing the perches, of four-wheel carriages, by which such carriages are rendered less liable to be overturned.

Mr. Edward Steer's (Inner Temple), for a new method, directed by machinery, of using the screw, by which its mechanical power, or it motion, is increased.

Mr. Anthony Berrolla's (Denmark Street), for a method of making infallible repeating watches.

Mr. Andrew Brown's (London), for improvements in the construction of a press for printing books aud other articles, part of which may be applied to presses in com

mon use.

Frederick Bartholomew Folsch and William Howard's (London), for a certain machine, instrument, or pen, calenlated to promote facility in writing; and also a certain black writing ink or composition, the durability whereof is not to be affected by time, or change of cli

nate.

Mr. John Brierley's (Greenfield, Flintshire), for a new mode of setting blue lead for corroding the same into white lead.

Mr. Abraham Seward's (Lancaster), for a new or improved hook, for bearing up the heads of horses in drawing carriages.

Mr. T. and J. Clatsworthy (Winsford), for shears on an improved construction for shearing sheep, &c.

Mr. Nicholas Fairless, (South Shields), for a windlass, windlass bitts, and metallic bawse-hole chamber, by which manual labour and time are saved in heaving te, and getting on board ships' anchors.

Mr. James Young's (Theobalds

Road, London), for improvements ou the stove.

Mr. George Finch's (King Street, Soho), for manufacturing various kinds of metal laces, so as to imitate gold and silver laces, and also for manufacturing gold and silver upou laces.

Mr. Jonathan Dickson's (Christ Church, Surrey), for improvements in the construction of tuus, coolers, vatts, and backs, used by brewers, distillers, &c.

Mr. Thomas Noon's (Burtonupon-Trent), for improvements in fire-arms, &c.

Mr. Thomas Well's (Erdington, Warwickshire), for an improved method of making and constructing barrel-cocks and water-cocks,whereby leakage, and the stuckey or setting-fast of the key or plug, are prevented.

Mr. Richard Scantlebury's (Redruth, Cornwall), for a machine, by which he counterbalances the weight of any column of water, to be lifted by any steam or water engine, or other machinery, either worked by animals or men.

Mr. William Proctors's (Sheffield), for improved methods of raising or supplying tubes or lamps with oil, so as to remove the shade of the vessel containing the oil.

Mr. John Warren's (Poole,) for an apparatus to prevent chimneys from smoking, and to extinguish fires in grates and stoves, without making any dust or smoke, injurious to the room or furniture.

Mr. Joseph Islett's (Stratford), for a method of producing fast greens on cottons, and various other articles.

Mr. Robert Ransome's (Ipswich), for

for improvements on the wheel and swing plough.

Mr. Samuel Brooke's (Bermondsey), for splitting hides, so that each side of the hide, so split, may be manufactured for the purposes for which an entire hide hath been before used; the grain side for coaches, &c. and the flesh side for white leather, vellum, &c.

Mr.Wedgwood's (Oxford Street), for an apparatus for producing several original writings or drawings, at one time.

Mr. Ferdinand Smith Stuart's (Billericay), for a substitute, the produce of this country, for Peruvian bark.

Messrs. Phillip's, sen. and jun. (London), for a new method of purifying the muriate of soda or common salt.

Mr. W. F. Snowden's (Oxford

Street), for improvements in an engine for cutting hay, straw, &c. into chaff.

Mr. James Grellier's (Barking), for a building of a peculiar construction, for the purpose of burning coke and lime, whereby the superfluous heat of the fire used in burning coke is applied to burn lime, and also whereby such fire may be rendered perpetual.

Mr. John Curr's (Sheffield), for laying a rope, or twisting and forming the strands together that compose the round rope.

Mr. Samuel Clegg's (Manchester), for a rotative engine, the piston of which makes a complete revolution at a distance from the revolving axis.

Mr. Thomas Cobb's (Banbury), for improvements in making paper in separate sheets.

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