LIST OF PATENTS. Joseph Reynolds, of Kitley, Wilting, Salop, Esq. for improvements in the construction of wheel carriages and of ploughs, and other implements used in husbandry, to be moved by steam, heated air, or vapour.-Jan. 9, 1816. Edward Cooper, of Newington Butts, ironmonger and machinist; for a method of printing paper for paper-hanging-Jan. William Baynham, of London Road, Surrey, Chemist; for a composition for making leather and other articles waterproof-Feb. 20, 1816. Joseph Manton, of Davies Street, Berkeley Square, gun maker; for improvements in the construction and use of certain parts of fire-arms, and also of the shoeing of horses.-Feb. 29, 1816. Francis Terril, of Long Acre, coachmaker, for his new wheel-guard.-March 2. John Wood the younger, of Bradford, worsted spinner, and Joshua Wordsworth, 10, 1816. of Leeds, machine maker, for improveThomas Deakin, of Ludgate Hill, Lon-ments in machines applicable to every dedon, furnishing ironmonger, and John scription of spinning.-March 2. Richard Haynes, of St. John's Street, Middlesex, ironmonger; for an improved stove grate, or fire-place.-Jan. 15, 1816. James Barren, of Wells Street, Oxford Street, Middlesex, brassfounder; for an improvement or improvements on castors. Jan. 28, 1816. Bryan Donkin, of Grange Road, Bermondsey, engineer, for a method of effecting certain purposes or processes, in which a temperature above that of boiling water. is requisite or desirable, by applying the temperature requisite or desirable, in the said certain process for effecting the said John Millington, of Duke Street, Man- certain purposes, in a manner not hitherto chester Square, St. Mary-le-bone, Mid-employed therein.-March 2. dlesex, engineer; for machinery to be moved by wind, steam, manual labour, or any of the processes now employed for moving machinery; by means of which, boats, barges, and other floating vessels, may be propelled or moved in the water. Feb. 1, 1816. Jobu George Druke, of Chapman Street, Pentonville, Middlesex, Chemist; for a method of expelling the molasses of syrup out of refined sugars in a shorter period than is at present practised with pipe clay. Feb. S, 1816, John Budgeon, of Dartford, Kent, pa per-maker; for a process for reducing rags or articles composed of silk, linen, or cotton, after they have been used, and reus dering the material of which they are composed fit to be remanufactured.-Feb. 3, 1816. George Frederick Muntz, of Birmingham, Warwick, roller of metals, for a method of abating, or nearly destroying, smoke, and of obtaining a valuable product therefrom.-March 2. John Leigh Bradbury, of Gloucester, for improvements in the machinery for spinning of cotton, flax, wool, tow, worsted, or any other fibrous substance.— March 9. Pierre François Montgolfier, of Leicester Square, engineer, for his improvements on the machine denominated belier hydraulique, or hydraulic ram.-March 14. John Stead, of Wicker, of Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield, coachmaker, for a stage coach, or other coach or carriage, for the carrying of passengers on lighter and more commodious principles than usual.-March 14. Marc Isambard Brunel, of Lindsay Row, Chelsea, in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, for "tricolteur," or knitting machine.March 14. William West and Daniel West, both of Bombay, in the East Indies, for a method of producing and applying power and motion to presses and other mechanical apparatus. March 14. Pierre François Montgolfier, of LeicesDayme, of the same place, gent. for imter Square, engineer, and Henry Daniel provements in a machine which acts by the expansion or contraction of air heated by raising of water, or giving motion to mills fire, which machine is applicable to the or other machines.-March 14, 1 James Dowson, of No. 68, Strand, Esq., castor or roller for tables, sofas, bedsteads, for new or improved means of producing and other articles.-23d March. or communicating motion in or unto bodies, either wholly or in part surrounded by water.-14th March. Johu Filkin, of No. 60, Old-street Road, Shoreditch, truss-maker, William Filkin, of the same place, truss-maker, and Joseph Barton, of No. 20, Lombard-street, geut. for a new truss.-14th March. Samuel Jean Pauley, of No. 5, Knightsbridge, engineer, for an article or substance for making, without seams, coats, great-coats, waistcoats, habits, cloaks, pautaloons, mantles, stockings, socks, and any other kind of clothing, covers for umbrellas and for hats. Mattresses, seats, and cushions filled with atmospheric air.-25d. March. James Younie, of Theobald's Road, Redlion-square, ironmonger, for his discovery for the prevention or cure of smoky chimnies,-23d March. John Sorby, jun. of Sheffield, York, edge-tool maker, for a method of making an auger for the use of shipwrights, millwrights, carpenters, and other artificers, on an improved construction.-23d March. William Macnamara, of East-Smithfield, plate-glass manufacturer, a communication made to him by a foreigner residing abroad, for his method of manufacturing glass.-23d March. Uriah Haddock, of Holloway, Chemist, for a new species of paint-colour and cement for painting aud colouring and preserving the interior and exterior of houses, ships, and other things.-23d March. William Lewis, of Brimscomb, Glou Emo Tonkin, of the City Road, St. Leonard, Shoreditch, for a globe reflecting stove for light and heat.-20th March. Pierre Pelleton, of Manchester, Lancas-cestershire, dyer, for his new machine for ter, chemist, for a new method of making sulphuric acid, commonly called oil of vitriol.-18th March. Emerson Dawson, of Welbeck-street, ironmonger, and John Isaac Hawkins, of Tichfield-street, for an improvement or addition to grates and stoves, and an instrument, machine, or apparatus, for supplying grates and stoves with fuel.-23d March. Robert Cameron, jun. of Edinburgh, paper-maker, for a machine for manufacturing paper on a principle entirely new.-28d March. Joseph Bowles, of Bennett's Street, Blackfriars Road, mill-wright, for improvements on oil mills.-28d March. Samuel Brown, of Westgate, Norfolk, iron-founder, for improvements on the swing and wheeled plough carriages and plough-shares,—23d March. Henry Osborne, of Bordesley Warwick, for a method or principle of producing cylinders of various descriptions.-Mar 23. John Merryweather, of the castle of Lincoln, gent. for means of propelling boats and vessels through the water.-23d March. Abraham Rogers, of Sheft, Halifax, York, coal-merchant, for a method of effecting a saving in the consumption of coal, or fuel, by an improvement in the mode of setting or heating boilers and steam engines, and other bodies of different descriptions; and also for heating and warming stoves, drying houses, manufactories, and other buildings, and for burning different descriptions of gasses.-23d March. Leberecht 'Stanhauser, of Old Bondatrect, merchant, for a new or improved Vor. V. No. 30. Lit. Pan. N.. S. Mar. 1' | fulling woollen or other cloths that require such process.-5th April. Joseph Turner, of Leyton, York, for his improved rotatory engine.-8th April. John Woodhouse, Bromsgrove, Worcester, for his method of forming the ground for roads and pavements, and also for paving and repairing old pavements and roads.-9th April. William Atkinson, of Bentinck-street, St. Mary-le-bone, for his new or improved method of forming blocks with bricks and cement in the form of Ashlar-stone for building, so as to have the appearance of stone. 9th April. William Stenson, of Coleford, Glouces tershire, for his improved engine to be worked by steam, or any other power.-9th April. William Lapalle, of Bristol, for his improvement in the construction of a gig, and of cards, so called, in the clothing and other manufactories, or other machines or instruments used and employed in such manufactories, for the same or similar purposes.-23d April. George Bodley, of Exeter, iron-founder, for an improved metallic engine to work either by steam or water, which he de nominates, "Bodley's improved Metallic Engine."-27th April. John Collier, of Windsor Terrace, Midddlesex, engineer, for a machine for shearing woollen cloths.-1st May. John Rangley, of Oakwell Hall, near Leeds, gent, for further improvements on his hydropneumatic engine, being a new or improved method of constructing and working engines or machines for lifting or raising of weights, turning machinery of 20 all descriptions, drawing carriages on railways, and capable of being applied to all purposes where mechanical power is required.-4th May. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS Deceased. July 28, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Esq, He was born at Maid Richard Banks, of Hadley, Salop, engi-F. S. A. and L. S. neer, for improvements on wheeled car riages.-4th May. ₹ William Threadgold, of Farm Street, Berkeley Square, surveyor and builder, for his apparatus to prevent obstructions to the passage of smoke in chimnies.--4th May Robert Copland, of Liverpool, merchant, for his means of effecting a saving in the consumption of fuel.-4th May. Benjamin Botch, late of Castle Hall, Milford Haven, Pembroke, but now of Bath, gent. being one of the people called Quakers, for a flexible elastic horse-shoe, for the purpose of allowing the foot of the horse its natural motion when shod. 11th May. Jean Samuel Pauly, of Knightsbridge, for certain improvements in the construc tion and use of fire-arms.-14th May, Thomas Ruxton, of Dublin, Esq. fer a lock for fastening doors, 14th May, Richard Francis Hawkins, of Woolwich Kent. gent. for a principle, by which a tunnel or archway may be constructed under the river Thames.-14th May. Daniel Wilson, of Usher-street, Dublin chemist, for improved apparatus in tillation. 14th May, stone, April 10, 1767; where his father, Mr. Harry Alexander, foliowed the business of a coach-maker. A few of his ear lier years were passed at the Grammarschool of Maidstone, under the Rev. Thos, Cherry, since Head-Master of Merebant Taylors' School in London: but in 1782, at the age of fifteen, he quitted his native for instruction as an Artist. town for the Metropolis, where he was sent He was placed with Mr. Julius Ibbetson, a landscape painter; and Feb. 27th, 1784, became a student at the Royal Academy. of the Embassy to the Court of China; and In 1792, he was appointed Draughtsman Pekin: where he remained during the accompanied the Earl of Macartney to Journey to the Northern frontier. He returned with the other persons of the European suite in 1794; and iu the following a respectable family in Wales, whom he year married Miss Jane Wogan, a lady of had the misfortune to lose within a short time after his marriage, Professor of Drawing at the newly-formed In 1802, he received an appointment as dis-Royal Military College at Great Marlow; William Simmons, of Wigan, Lancaster, appointed Assistant-Keeper of the Departwhich he quitted May 28th, 1808, on being writing-master, for improvements appliment of Antiquities in the British Museum, cable to keyed instruments.-14th May. Francis Richardson, of Queen Street, Westminster, esq.; for improvements on the locks and barrels of fire-arms, and also an improvement to bayonets. 25th May. Philip Taylor, of Bromley, Middlesex, merchant, for his new method of applying beat to liquors used in brewing, distilling, and sugar refining.25th May. George Staunton's Account of the Embassy The Drawings which accompanied Sir exclusively from his pencil. to China, published in 1794, were almost The productions of his pencil also ornamented Mr. Barrow's Travels in China, 4to. 1804; as well as that Gentleman's Voyage to Cochin China, published 1806. In 1805, Mr. Alexander published "The Christopher Dihi, of New Bond Street, Costume of China illustrated in Forty-eight esq.; for his improvement in making mastic coloured Engravings," in quarto; accomcement, and in the mode of working panied by explanatory descriptions of Chi "Dihl's Mastic,"-25th May. uese Manners. This work was so well reGeorge Dodgson, of Shadwell, Middle-ceived by the publick, that he was encou sex, pump manufacturer, for a method of simplifying and improving the construc tion of extinguishing engines and forcing pumps.-27th May. Isaac Hathley Reddell, of Orange Court, Leicester Square, engineer, for improveents in lighting the interior of offices. 27th May. Robert Ketop, jun. Cork, smith and brass-founder, for improvements in making locks and keys.-27th May. John Heathcoate, of Loughborough, Leicester, lace-manufacturer, for improve ments on machinery, already in use for toaking frames.-S0th May. raged to bring out another volume on the same subject, comprising a similar quantity of plates and letter-press. Three Volumes of Engravings from the Terra Cottas and Marbles in the British Museum were published in 1810, 1812, and 1815, by the Trustees: the Drawings of which were executed by Mr. Alexander; and the Descriptions written by Mr. Taylor Combe, the Keeper of the Department of Antiquities. Mr. A. had completed the Drawings for a fourth Volume. Sept: 14. At Hooton Pagnell, n Doncaster, the Rex, WILLIAM BAWDW. ear EN, B. A. vicar of Hooton Pagnell, and curate | to ascertain and illustrate the Authority, of Frickley-cum-Clayton, co, York. To Nature, aud design of the Institution of this gentleman the publick are indebted Christ, commonly called the Lord's Sup for a translation of that invaluable National | per," 1780, 8vo. with other learned works. Record, Domesday Book. He proposed to Nov. 14. At Gatcombe House, Hants, print the whole, in ten volumes 4to.; but only two have as yet been published: Vol. Sir ROGER CURTIs, Bart. Admiral of the 1. containing "the County of York, includ- Red. He was son of Roger Curtis, Esq. of ing Amounderness, Lonsdale, and Furness, Downton, and was knighted Nov. 29, in Lancashire, and such Parts of West- 1782. for his gallant and judicious conduct moreland and Cumberland as are contained at the siege of Gibraltar. He was on board in that Survey. Also the Counties of Der- the Royal Charlotte with Lord Howe, in by, Nottingham, Rutland, and Lincoln. the memorable action of the 1st of June, With an Introduction, Glossary, and In- 1794, after which he was created a baro dexes," 1809; and Vol. II. containing the | net; and was Commander in Chief at the Counties of Hertford and Middlesex, Buck- Cape of Good Hope in 1801. During the time the late Viscount Melville was first ingham, Oxford, and Gloucester. We ear bestly hope that the publication of the re- Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Roger Curtis maining volumes of the Work (which are was appointed one of the Commissioners completely ready for the press) may be for revising the Civil Affairs of the Navy, made conducive to the interests of the af. and was subsequently appointed Com Alicted widow and twelve children of Mr.mander in Chief at Portsmouth. He mar Bawdwen, by whom his loss will be most severely felt. ried Sarah, youngest daughter and coheiress of Matthew Brady, Esq. of Gatcombe House, in the Isle of Portsea, Hants; by whom he had issue two sons, Roger and Lucius, both Captains R. N. and due danghter. He was at once a very able and a very good man, beloved for the kindnes of his heart and benignity of his mauwers. JOSEPH HUDBART, Esq. F. R. S. wa born at Allenby, a village in Camber Young Huddart, of course, was much employed in the fishery in small vessels, thereby laying the foundation, by practical knowledge, of the conspicuous talents which a few years soon developed. In 1769-4, the shoals wholly left the Firth, Similar conveand fell into Chester. Sept. 29. At his prebendal house in Little Dean's Yard, Westminster, in his 85th year, the Rev. WILLIAM BELL, D. D. Senior Prebendary of St. Peter's, Westminster. This venerable and learned Divine was educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge; where he took the degree of B. A. in 1758, with considerable distinction. Mr. Bell was for some time Fellow of Magland, 11th Jan. 1740-1, O. S. at which dalen College; and afterwards became place his father followed the profession of a Domestic Chaplain to Princess Amelia, shoemaker. About the year 1756-7, great aunt to his present Majesty, through whose shoals of herrings came into the Firth of interest he obtained a Prebend of West Forth; and Allenby being a fishing-town, minster in 1765. In 1767 he proceeded the elder Mr. Huddart, in conjunction with S. T. P. per Literas Regius. In 1776, Dr. some respectable neighbours, built conveBell was presented by the Dean and Chap-niences for the purpose of curing them. fer of Westminster to the vicarage of St. Bridget's, London; but vacated it in 1780, on being presented to the rectory of Christ Church, London, which he resigned in 1799. He also enjoyed the Treasurer's valuable stall in St. Paul's Cathedral. In 1810, Dr. Bell transferred 15,2001. three per cent. Consols to the University of Cam-niences, by the same company, were bridge, in trust, to found eight new Scholarships, for the sons, or the orphans, of Clergymen of the Church of England. The first publication by this learned Divine was, his Prize" Dissertation on the Causes which principally contribute to render a Nation populous," 1756, 4to. His other publications are : An Enquiry into the Divine Missions of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ: so far as they can be proved from the circumstances of their Births, and their connection with each other," 1761.800. "A sermon preached in Lambeth Chapel at the Consecration of Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Rochester," 1774, 4to. "An Attempt erected at Park Gate; but the quantity fell so short of his expectations, that he took the command of a brig belonging to a relation, intending, as soon as a vessel which then occupied the slips was completed, immediately to build one himself. It may appear surprising, that, with no farther instruction than his own genius elicited, this task he accomplished in the course of the year 1768, and moulded every timber about her with his own hands. In this vessel he continued till 1778. Having claimed the attention of nautical men, by the accuracy of the delineation of some few charts, which were published, he was rst published, with Notes and a Glossa ry." 1795, 2 vols. 8vo. "Annals of Commorce, Manufactures, Fisheries, and Navigatjon," 1805, 4 vols. 4to. "History of the European Commerce with India, 1812. Aug. 26. Suddenly at the advanced age of 84, Dr. JOHN SQUIRE, of Ely-place, Holborn, member of the Royal College of Physicians, and for many years, until increasing infirmities obliged him to relinquish practice, one of the Physicians of the Lyingin Charity for delivering Women at their own Residences. The whole life of this truly venerable Gentleman has been one continued series of charity and benevolence; and the loss of none of those great and good Characters in the Medical World, of whom society has been deprived within these few years past, will be more seriously felt, or more universally lamented, than that of the good Dr. Squire. At the very strongly solicited by Sir Richard Hotham, to enter into the India Company's service. He accordingly, in the season 1773-4, proceeded to India as fourth mate of the York, in which voyage he made several useful surveys on the West Coast of Sumatra. Mr. Sayer, the chart-seller, wished to give them publicity; and, in consequence of their being no accurate chart of St. George's Channel, requested he would complete his survey of the same, which he accomplished after indefatigable labour, in the course of the year 1777. In the following year, he was very earnestly requested by his former patron, Sir Richard Hotham, again to proceed to India; accordingly, he sailed from the Downs April 27th, 1778, in the Royal Admiral, as chief mate; but the captain dying at Portsmouth, he was appointed to the command, and made four voyages in her in a period of ten years; during which time, he was but twenty months in England. His time not parti-instant of his death he was engaged in an cularly devoted to the duties of the ship while in India, was employed in the usual manner; and he completed a survey of the whole peninsula from Bombay to Coringo. His astronomical knowledge, from the eclipse of Jupiter's satellites, enabled him to ascertain the longitude of Bombay with more accuracy than any former geographer. He quitted the India Company's service in 1788, and made surveys of the Western Islands of Scotland; and was ap-in so short a period; and has afforded repointed in 1790, by the Trinity House, in a survey of Hasbro' Gatt, for the purpose of placing the lights through that intricate navigation. In the year 1791, he was appointed an Elder Brother of that corporation, and also F. R. S. and few have had higher pretensions to these honourable distinctions; for to him (as may be collected from the preceding account) the science of navigation, owes many valuable discoveries and improvements, the result of much personal fatigue and expensive experiment: the world in general is likewise much indebted to him for many of the best maps and charts extant. Of his skill in mechanism he has left a monument in the machinery for the manufacture of cordage, unrivalled in this or any other country. Aug 1-At Pancras, in his 69th year, D. MACPHERSON, Esq. sub-commissioner of the Public Records. He published "Geographical Illustrations of Scottish History, containing the names of Places mentioned in Chronologies, Histories, and Records," 1796. 4to. "De Orygynale Cronykil, of Scotland, be Andrew of Wyntown, Priour of Sanet Sersis yuche in Loch Levyn, now act of benevolence: for, while assisting at the delivery of a patient, whose labour was attended with circumstances of much difficulty and danger. He expired in an instant, without a sigh or a struggle. "The Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men in London and its Vicinity,” which, from a small beginning, has arisen to a state of prosperity that its most sanguine supporters could not have expected lief to many families, who, but for its assistance, must in many instances have endured the most humiliating succours of a parish workhouse, owes much of its success to Dr. Squire. Dec. 15. At Chevening, Kent, in his 64th year, CHARLES STANHOPE, Earl Stanhope. His death is justly considered a public loss. He had indeed eccentricities in public, and perculiarities in private life; but his claim on public gratitude on the score of services are, perhaps, as rare, as those powers of intellect with which he was unquestionably endowed. He uniformly zealously promoted the extention of human knowledge by devoting a large proportion of his ample fortune, and a yet larger portion of his time and thoughts, to experi 'ments in Science and Philosophy. If his objects in public were sometimes impracticable, they were neither sordid nor selfish. The great and useful national work, for which he was peculiarly qualified, and to which he had for a long time applied the most earnest attention, was, a Digest of all the Statutes a work of such stupendous labour, as well as information, that few persons can be expected to set |