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PATPTVJTQ 

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To Matthew Bush, of Dalnonareh Print Field, engineer, for their having found out and invented 



nearBonhill, by Dumbarton, North Britain, calico- 

 printer, for having invented certain improvements 

 in machinery or apparatus for printing calicoes and 

 other fabrics. 24th May, six months. 



To John Holmes Bass, of Ilatton Garden, in the 

 county of Middlesex, gentleman, for having in- 

 vented certain improvements in machinery for 

 cutting corks and bungs. 3d June, six months. 



To John Levers, of New Radford Works, near 

 the town of Nottingham, lace-machine maker, for 

 having invented or found out certain improvements 

 in machinery for making lace, commonly called 

 bobbin net. 8th June, six months. 



To George Vaugha^i Palmer, of the parish of 

 Saint Peter, in the city of Worcester, artist, foi 

 having invented a machine to cut and excavate 

 earth. 8th June, six months. 



To William Tutin Hacraft, of the Circus, 

 Greenwich, Doctor of Medicine, for having in- 

 vented or found out certain improvements inateam- 

 engines. llth June, six months. 



To Thomas Brunton, of the Commercial Road, 

 Limehouse, in the county of Middlesex, merchant, 

 and Thomas- John Fuller, of the same place, civil 



an improved mechanical power applicable to ma- 

 chinery of different descriptions. 19th June, si* 

 months. 



List of Patents which having been granted in the 



month of July, 1816, expire in the present month 



of July, 1830. 



2. John Barlow, Sheffield, founder, for a nito 

 cooking apparatus, 



11. John Towers, LittTe Darner-street, Colilfcnth- 

 fields, chemist, for a tinctwe for the relief of 

 con/fh's, #<:., called " Towers' New London Tinc- 

 ture." 



27. Henry Warburton, Lower Cadogan-place, 

 Chelsea, for a method of distilling certain animal 

 vegetable and mineral substances, and of manu- 

 facturing certain of the products thereof* 



Robert Salmon, Woburn, Bedfordshire, for 

 further improvements in haymaking machines, 

 called" Salmon's Patent self-adjusting and manage- 

 able Hay machines." 



John Hagne, Great Peare-street, Spitalfields, 

 London, for certain improvements in the method of 

 expelling molasses from sugars. 



BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 



LORD REDESDALE. 



The Right Honourable John Freeman 

 Mitford, Baron Redesdale, of Redesdale, 

 in the county of Northumberland, a Lord 

 of Trade and Plantations, and a Privy Coun- 

 cillor of Great Britain and Ireland, F.R.S., 

 F.S.A., &c. was born on the 18th of August, 

 1748. His family appears to have been of 

 considerable antiquity in the north of Eng- 

 land ; for Sir John Mitford, Knt., was Lord 

 of Mitford Castle, Northumberland, so early 

 as the time of William the Conqueror. As 

 he left no male issue, two collateral branches 

 succeeded : the elder was related, by means 

 of an intermarriage of his only daughter, 

 with the Bertrams, Barons of Mitford ; 

 while the younger produced the Mitfords of 

 Rolleston, the representative of whom, 

 Robert de Mitford, received a royal grant 

 of Mitford Castle, in the reign of Charles 

 II. William Mitford, of Newton House, 

 in the county of Hants, Esq., the fifth in 

 descent from Robert, had an heir, John, 

 by Margaret, daughter of Robert Edwards, 

 of Wingfield, in Berkshire, and of London, 

 merchant. He was a member of Lincoln's 

 Inn; and having married Philadelphia, 

 daughter of William Revely, of Newby, 

 Esq., (and first cousin of Hugh Percy 

 Smithson, first Duke of Northumberland), 

 John, the subject of this sketch, was the 

 younger of his two sons. The elder son 

 was Colonel William Mitford,, of Exbury, 

 in the county of Hants, M.P. for Beeral- 

 ston, and New Romney, Colonel of the 

 South Hants Militia, and author of the 

 History of Greece. 



John Mitford, educated at New College, 



Oxford, adopted the profession of his father, 

 who died when he was only fourteen years 

 of age. Having studied at Lincoln's Inn, 

 he was called to the Bar; and, devoting 

 himself to the Court of Chancery, he 

 speedily attained an extraordinary degree of 

 celebrity. So early as the year 1782, he 

 published " A Treatise of Pleadings in 

 Suits in the Court of Chancery, by English 

 Bill," a work in high repute. A situation 

 so distinguished as that of leader in the 

 chief court of equity, soon conferred upon 

 him wealth and eminence. He also obtained 

 a silk gown, and with it all the advantages 

 arising from the office of King's Counsel. 

 Afterwards, he received the honourable ap- 

 pointment of a Welsh Judge, and was 

 nominated one of the Justices of the Grand 

 Sessions for the counties of Cardigan, Pem- 

 broke, and Carmarthen. 



By the interest of his cousin, the Duke 

 of Northumberland, Mr. Mitford was, in 

 17S9j returned Member of Parliament for 

 the Borough of Beeralston. At, first, he 

 spoke little in the House ; but, soon after- 

 wards, we find him debating on most of the 

 great subjects that came under discussion. 

 He spoke several times during the trial of 

 Mr. Hastings ; and he supported the peti- 

 tion of that gentleman, complaining of the 

 introduction of irrelevant matter, at the 

 Bar of the House of Lords. Two things, 

 in particular, he observed, should be adhered 

 to in a prosecution : " Never to bring for- 

 ward a fact that was matter of calumny to 

 the accused ; and never to inflame the pas- 

 sions of those who were to decide as 

 judges." 



