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List of Patents. 



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List of Patents, which, having been granted 

 in August 1813, expire in the present 

 month of August 1827. 



0. John Easson, Liverpool, for a machine 

 called a panagram, for teaching the blind 

 to read, by the touch, music, languages, 

 arithmetic, fyc. 



George Scott, Alnwick, for a machine 

 for cutting out men and women's wearing 

 apparel, and various other things, fyc. 



Edward Heard, London, for certain 

 processes for the manufacture of glass. 



Robert Westfield, London, for improve' 

 merits in horizontal watches. 



25. John Hancock, Reading, for improved 

 construction of carriages, and application 

 of a material hitherto unused for them. 



John Naisb, Bath, for making move- 

 able characters for composing na/nes and 

 professions. 



- Thomas Gate Hunt, Brades, Stafford, 

 for an improved back for scythes, reaping* 

 hooks, straw-knives, and hay-knives. 



BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 



LORD MORTON. 



George Douglas, Earl of Morton, and 

 Lord Aberdour of the County of Fife j 

 Baron Douglas of Lochleveu, in the peer- 

 age of England ; Lord Lieutenant of the 

 County of Fife j High Commissioner to 

 the Kirk of Scotland ; K.T.V.P.R.S., and 

 F.S.A., was born in the year 1759. His 

 lordship's ancestors descended from An- 

 drew de Douglas, second son of Archibald 

 de Douglas, whose eldest son, William, was 

 ancestor of the Dukes de Douglas. John 

 Douglas of Landeii and Loch Leven, great- 

 great-grandson of Andrew, lived in the 

 reign of King David II. of Scotland ; and 

 had, besides other issue, two sons ; James, 

 whose great-grandson was created Earl of 

 Morton ; and Henry of Loch Leven ances- 

 tor of the late and present Earl. 



Sholto Charles, the fifteenth Earl, father 

 of the nobleman, to whom this notice re- 

 lates, married Katharine, daughter of John 

 Hamilton, Esq., by whom (who died in 

 April 1823) he had an only son. His Lord- 

 ship died on the 27th of September, 1774; 

 and was succeeded by that sou, George 

 Douglas. 



After finishing his education, his Lord- 

 ship made the tour of Europe, and is said 

 to have acquired a proficiency in all the 

 languages in that quarter of the world. In 

 the early part of Mr. Pitt's administration, 

 he was appointed Lord Chamberlain to the 

 Queen; a post which he held until the 

 death of her majesty. On the llth of 

 August, 1791, he was created Baron Doug- 

 las, of Loch Leven, in the English Peer- 

 age. His lordship was a man attached to 

 science, and was a constant attendant at 

 the meetings of the Royal Society. Hav- 

 ing often officiated as vice-president of 

 that institution, during the absence of Sir 

 Joseph Banks, on the death of that gentle- 

 man, he was one of the noblemen who were 

 mentioned as likely to succeed him. The 

 election, however, took a different turn ; 

 his lordship not having been put in nomi- 

 nation as a candidate. 



Lord Morton married, on the 13th of 



August, 1814, Susan Elizabeth Buller, 

 daughter of Sir Francis Buller, of Lupton, 

 in the county of Devon, Bart. His lord- 

 ship died at Dalmahoy, in North Britain, 

 on the 19th of July ; arid having left no 

 issue by his lady, the English Barony of 

 Douglas, of Loch Leven, has, by his death, 

 become extinct. He is succeeded in his 

 other titles by his cousin, George Sholto 

 Douglas. 



DR. JACKSON. 



Robert Jackson, M.D., Inspector of Mili- 

 tary Hospitals, and many years chief of the 

 medical department in the army of the 

 West Indies, was born about the year 1751. 

 After his probationary terms in the profes- 

 sion, he went to Jamaica, in 1774. There, 

 he successfully adopted the practice of cold 

 affusion in fever, long before it was adopted 

 by Dr. Currie. In 1778, Mr. Jackson served 

 as regimental surgeon in the British army in 

 America. At the close of the American war, 

 he settled at Stockton-upon-Tees. In 1793, 

 when the French revolutionary war com- 

 menced, he was appointed to the Third Regi- 

 ment of Foot, with the view of attaining the 

 rank of physician in the army. For some 

 time he served upon the continent; in 1796, 

 he was employed at St. Domingo ; and, in 

 1799, with the Russian auxiliary army. After 

 some years of retirement, he took charge of 

 the medical department in the Windward and 

 Leeward Islands. In his improved mode of 

 treating the yellow fever in the West-Indies, 

 he encountered many difficulties ; but his late 

 Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, 

 aware of the value of his services, enabled 

 him to overcome them ; and, in addition to 

 his half-pay, as Inspector of Hospitals, he 

 was, for many years, allowed a pension of 

 200. 



Dr. Jackson wrote much and well. His 

 publications were as follow : On the Fevers 

 of Jamaica, with Observations on the Inter- 

 mittents of America, and an Appendix, con- 

 taining Hints on the Means of preserving the 

 Health of Soldiers in Hot Climates, 1795, 

 8vo. ; An Outline of the History and Cure 

 of Fever, Endemic and Contagious, more 



