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PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 



New Patents sealed in January 1828. 



. To William Gassage, of Leamington 

 Priors, Warwick, chemist, for improve- 

 ments in cocks for the passage of fluid 

 Sealed 2d January ; 6 months. 



To Thomas Batfield, of Hapton-court, 

 Salop, coal and iron-master, for improve- 

 ments in smelting and making iron 2d Ja- 



. nuary ; 4 months. 



To James Hale, jun., of Ordsall, Man- 

 chester, dyer, for improvements in dyeing 

 piece goods by machinery 2d January ; 

 2 months. 



. To Joseph Clisild Daniell, of Stoke, 



.Wilts, for improvements in dressing cloths, 

 and in machinery applicable to such .pur- 

 poses 2d January ; 6 months. 



, To William Morley, of Nottingham, lace- 

 manufacturer, for improvements in and ad- 

 ditions to machinery for making bobbin or 

 twist-net lace 9th January ; 6 months. 



To James Andrew Hunt Grubbe, of 

 Stanton-St.-Bernard, Wilts, for transmit- 

 ting-heat wall for the ripening of fruit 

 9th January ; 6 months. 



To James Gilbertson, of Hertford, grocer, 

 for improvements in the construction of 

 furnaces, by which they consume their own 

 smoke 15th January; 2 months. 



To Charles Hooper, of Spring Gardens, 

 St. Marston Bigott, Somerset, shear- 

 grinder, for an improved machine for 

 shearing and cropping woollen cloths 



.15th January ; 2 months. 



To John Evans, jun., of Moreton Mills, 

 Wallingford, Berks, paper-maker, for cer- 

 tain improvements on steam-engines 

 15th January ; 6 months. 



To Joseph Blades, of Clapham, Surrey, 

 for improvements in the water-proof stif- 

 fening of hats 15th January ; 6 months. 



, To William Newton, of Chancery-lane, 

 Middlesex, civil engineer and mechanical 

 draftsman, for an improved surgical chair- 

 bed, with various appendages, designed for 

 useful purposes 15th January ; 6 months. 

 To George Daniel Harris, Field Place, 



'Stroud, Gloucester, for improvements in 

 dressing and preparing woollen yarns, and 



,in cleansing and dressing and finishing 

 woollen-cloths and other fabrics, and in 



'the apparatus for performing the same 

 15th January ; 6 months. 

 To James Falconer Atlee, of Deptford, 



"for improvements on bands or hoops for 



securing made and other masts, bowsprits, 

 and yards, and applicable to other pur- 

 poses 15th January ; 6 months. 



To Wm. Erskine Cochran, of Regent - 

 street, Middlesex, for improvements in cer- 

 tain apparatus for cooling and other pur- 

 poses 15th January ; 6 months. 



To Joshua Taylor, of Whitechapel, and 

 George Richardson Porter, of Broad-street, 

 city, for a new mode of communicating 

 heat for various purposes 19th January j 

 6 months. 



To William Percival, of Knightsbridge, 

 for improvements in the construction and 

 application of shoes without nails to the 

 feet of horses and other animals 19th Ja- 

 nuary ; 6 months. 



To George Jackson, of St. Andrews, 

 Dublin, for improvements in machinery 

 for propelling boats and other vessels, which 

 improvemeuts are also applicable to water- 

 wheels and other purposes 19th January ; 

 6 months. 



List of Patents, which, having been granted 

 in February 1814, expire in the present 

 month of February 1828. 



8. John Duffy, Dublin, for an improved 

 method of producing patterns on calico or 

 linen cloths. 



Timothy Harris, London, for his ma- 

 chine for ploughing, laying on colours called 

 grounds, printing, flocking, and pressing, 

 so as to produce an even smooth face upoti 

 paper, silk, linen, woollen, cotton, and va- 

 rious other articles. 



John Vallance, Brighton, for an 

 apparatus for cooling brewers', vinegar 

 makers' 1 , and distillers' worts, wash, fyc. 



10. John Kershaw, Glossop Dale, Derby, 

 and John Wood of the same, for their mode 

 of preparing flax for being spun on the 

 like machinery as cotton. 



Joseph Bramall, Pimlico, for his 

 method of applying certain species of earth 

 for extirpating dry rot, and as a substitute 

 for lead in oil paints. 



12. William Francis Hamilton, London, 

 for an improvement in optical instruments. 



Richard Price, Bristol, for an im- 

 proved cooking apparatus. 



21. John Buddie, Wallsend, Northum- 

 berland, for an improved fire grate for con- 

 suming small coals. 



BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 



WILLIAM GBENVILLE GRAHAM. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR: . 



While I cannot agree with the hacknied 

 adage of " de mortuis nil nisi bonum," and 



think that we should be very ill justified in 

 deifying a Caligula upon such a flimsy pre- 

 text of supererogatory charity, I cannot find 

 language powerful enough to express my 

 contempt for the writers of deliberate un- 



