1827.] 



List of New Works. 



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ing the Pentopolis, and other various existing 

 Remains. By Capt. F. W. Beechy, R.N., 

 and H. W. Beechy, esq. In one vol. 4to. 



Webb's Tour on the Rhine, in Switzer- 

 land, and Italy, in 1822 and 1823. 2 vols. 

 8vo. 18s. boards. 



Thomson's Letters from South America. 

 12 mo. 5s. boards. 



Personal Narrative of Adventures in the 

 Peninsula during the War in 1812 and 1813. 

 By an Officer late in the Staff Corps Regi- 

 ment of Cavalry. Post 8vo. 9s. 6d. 



PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 



List of Patents lately Granted. 



To Joseph Frederick Ledam, of Birming- 

 ham, for an improvement for purifying coal 

 gas by means not hitherto used for that pur- 

 poseSealed 2d March; 6 months. 



To Nathan Lucas, and Henry Ewbank, of 

 Mincing-lane, London, for an improved pro- 

 cess to be used in the dressing of paddy or 

 rough rice 10th March ; 2 months. 



To Lemuel Wellman Wright, of Upper 

 Kennington-lane, Surrey, engineer, for cer- 

 tain improvements in the combination and 

 arrangement of machinery for making metal 

 screws 17th March; 6 months. 



To Benjamin Rotch, of FurnivaPs Icn, esq., 

 for a diagonal press for transferring perpen- 

 dicular to lateral pressure 22d March ; 

 6 months. 



To James Stewart, of Store -street, Bed- 

 ford-square, Middlesex, pianoforte-maker, 

 for certain improvements on pianofortes, and 

 the mode of stringing the same 22d 

 March ; 6 months. 



To James Woodman, of Piccadilly, per- 

 fumer, for improvements on shaving and 

 other brushes, which improvements are also 

 applicable to other purposes 22d March ; 

 6 months. 



To Jacob Perkins, of Fleet-street, for cer- 

 iain improvements in the construction of 

 steam-engines 22d March ; 6 months. 



List of Patents, which, 'having been granted 

 in April 1813, expire in the present 

 month of April 1827. 

 7. John Bennett, Bristol, for his metal 



dovetail joint, applicable to portable and 



other furniture, and any framework requir- 

 ing strength and durability. 



James Timmins, Birmingham, for im- 

 proved hothouses and all horticultural 

 buildings ; also pine-pits, cucumber lights, 

 and church windows. 



13. Robert Lewis, Birmingham, for a 

 method of making brass chimney pieces, 

 plain or mounted, fyc. 



Charles Plinth, London, for an im- 

 proved machine, called" Regency Portable 

 Fountain,'' for soda water, cider, perry, 

 and other liquids. 



John Rangeley, Leeds, for a method of 

 constructing and working engines for lift- 

 ing weights, turning machinery, and ca- 

 pable of being applied wherever mechanical 

 power is required. 



Bobert Campion, Whitby, for an im- 

 proved method of making double canvass 

 and sail-cloth with hemp and flax, without 

 starch. 



14. Charles Augustin Busby, London, for 

 improved canal locks, by which the water 

 now lost will be saved. 



28. Richard and Frederick Coupland, 

 Leeds, for the manufacture of shaivls, ker- 

 seymeres, and milled cloths, from a mix- 

 ture of animal and vegetable wool, prepared 

 and spun into yarn without oil. 



Joseph Hamilton, Dublin, for improve- 

 ments in machines for making bricks, tiles, 

 and earthenwares. 



Thomas Mead, Scot-street, Yorkshire, 

 for his Endless Chain, of a peculiar con- 

 struction. 



Samuel Whitfiold, Birmingham, for im- 

 proved mountings or furniture, for culinary 

 and other utensils. 



BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 



GENERAL CAULAINCOURT. 



Armand Augustine Louis Caulincourt, the 

 descendant of an ancient family, was born 

 in Picardy, in the year 1772. Devoted to 

 the profession of arms, he was, at the com- 

 mencement of the revolution, an officer of 

 cavalry. He did not emigrate, but served 

 under the revolutionary standard ; and, after 

 making several campaigns as a colonel of 

 dragoons, he became aid-de-camp to Buona- 

 parte, when first consul. Having obtained 



the confidence of his aspiring master, he was 

 regarded as a suitable agent for the arrest of 

 the Due d'Enghien ; an honourable mission, 

 which several officers, of more squeamish 

 principles, had refused. In the course of the 

 same year, he was named Grand Ecuyer of 

 France, made general of division, and pre- 

 sented with the grand cross of the Legion of 

 Honour. He subsequently received various 

 orders of knighthood from Bavaria, Saxony,, 

 Prussia, Russia, and Austria. At the time 

 \rhen Buonaparte was carrying on his plans 



