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List of New Works. 



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Don Juan Van Halen's Narrative of his 

 Flight from the Dungeons of the Inquisition 

 of Madrid, and of his Travels and Adventures 

 in Russia, etc. 2 vols. 8vo. 28s. boards. 



FINK ARTS. 



Part IV. of Pompeii, which completes 

 this important Work, in Imperial Folio, con- 

 taining nearly one hundred Plates, engraved 

 by W. B. Cooke. The work is also embel- 



lished with an Eruption of Vesuvius, from a 

 Drawing by J. Martin, Esq. Price 41. 4s. 

 Proofs 61. 6s. 



No. VII. of River Scenery. By J.M. W. 

 Turner, R.A., and the late Thomas Girtin, 

 which completes the Work ; with letter- press 

 Deseriptionsof all the Plates, by Mrs. Borland. 

 The work complete, royal 4to. 31. 13s. 6d. 

 Proofs, imperial 4to. 51 half-bound. 



PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 



New Patents sealed 1827. 



Henry Raper, of Baker-street, Middle- 

 sex, Esq., a Rear-Ad miral in our Royal 

 Navy, for an improved system of signals, 

 first, for communicating by day by the means 

 of flags and pendants, between ships at sea 

 or other objects far distant from each other ; 

 in which system, the colours of the flags and 

 pendants which have heretofore served to 

 distinguish the signals one from another, and 

 which, by distance or other causes, are ex- 

 tremely subject to be mistaken, may be dis- 

 pensed with altogether; and secondly, for 

 communicating, by night, between ships at 

 sea and other objects far distant from each 

 other, by the means of lights. And which 

 system of signals is more conspicuous, expe- 

 ditious, and certain, than any which has 

 hitherto been employed for the like purpose. 

 Sealed 21st June ; 2 months. 



To James Marshall, of Chatham, Kent, 

 lieutenant in the Royal Navy, for improve- 

 ments in mounting guns or cannon for sea, or 

 other service 26th June ; 6 months. 



To John Felton, of Hinckley, in the coun- 

 ty of Leicester, machine- maker, for a ma- 

 chine for an expeditious and correct mode of 

 giving a fine edge to knives, razors, scissors, 

 and other cutting instruments 28th June ; 

 2 months. 



To Thomas Fuller, of Bath, coach-maker, 

 for certain improvements on wheel carriages 

 28th June ; 2 months. 



To Walter Hancock, of Stratford, Essex, 

 engineer, for an improvement or improve- 

 ments upon steam-engines 4th July ; 

 6 months. 



To George Anthony Sharp, of Putney, 

 Surry, Esq., for an improved table-urn 

 18th July ; 6 months. 



To Robert More, of Underwood, Sterling- 

 shire, in Scotland, distiller, for certain im- 

 provements in the process of preparing and 

 cooling worts or wash from vegetable sub- 

 stances for the production of spirits 18th 

 July ; 6 months. 



To Robert More, of Underwood, Sterling- 

 shire, Scotland, distiller, for certain processes 

 for rendering distillery refuse productive of 

 spirits 18th July ; 6 months. 



To Edward Barnard Deeble, of Saint 

 James's-street, Westminster, civil engineer, 

 for a new construction or constructions and 

 or combination of metallic 



blocks for the purposes of forming caissons, 

 jetties, piers, quays, embankments, light- 

 houses, foundation walls, or such other erec- 

 tions to which the said metallic blocks may 

 be applicable 12th July ; 6 months. 



To Robert Vazie, of York-square, Saint 

 Pancras, Middlesex, civil engiaeer, for im- 

 provements in certain processes, utensils, ap- 

 paratus, machinery, and operations applica- 

 ble to the preparing, extracting, and pre- 

 serving various articles of food, the compo- 

 nent parts of which utensils, apparatus, and 

 machinery, are of different dimensions pro- 

 portionate to the different uses in which they 

 are employed, and may be separately applied 

 in preparing, extracting, and preserving food, 

 and in other useful purposes 12th July ; 

 6 months. 



To William Church, of Birmingham, War- 

 wick, Esq., for certain improvements on ap- 

 paratus for spinning fibrous substances 

 13th July; 6 months. 



To William Wilson, of Martin's-larie, 

 Cannon-street, London, hat-manufacturer, for 

 his method or principle of extracting spirits 

 and other solvents used in dissolving malle- 

 able gums of various kinds, and other arti- 

 cles employed for stiffening bats, hat-bodies, 

 bonnets, caps, and divers articles of merchan- 

 dizes, and converting such spirit (after rec- 

 tification) into use 4th July ; 2 months. 



To Rene Florentin Jenar, of Bunhill-row, 

 in the parish of Saint Luke, gentleman, for 

 certain improvements in lamps 4th July; 

 6 months. 



A grant unto George Boulton, of Stafford- 

 street, Old Bond-street, Middlesex, tailor, for 

 an instrument, machine, or apparatus for 

 writing, which he denominates a self-supply- 

 ing pen 4th July ; 6 months. 



To Thomas Sowerby, of 'Change- alley, 

 Coruhill, for a certain improvement in the 

 construction of ships windlasses 4th July ; 

 2 months. 



To Rene Florentin Jenar, of Bunhill-row, 

 Middlesex, gentleman, for a method of fill- 

 ing-up with metal or other suitable material, 

 the holes or interstices in wire-gauze, or other 

 similar substances, which be denominates 

 metallic linen. 



To John Snelson Shenton, of Husband, 

 Bosworth in Leicester, plumber and glazier, 

 for certain improvements in the mechanism 

 of water-closets 12th July ; 2 months. 



