List of Patents. 



To William Parr, Union Place, City Road, 

 Middlesex, gentleman, for having invented or 

 found out a new method of producing a recipro- 

 cating action by means of rotatory motion to be 

 applied to the working of pumps, mangles, and 

 all other machinery in or to which reciprocating 

 action is required or may be applied. 18th Jan- 

 uary ; 4 months. 



To Edward Dakeyne and James Dakeyue, 

 Parley Pale, Derby, merchants , for having in- 

 vented a machine or hydraulic engine for apply- 

 ing the power or pressure of water, steam, and 

 other elastic fluids to the purpose of working 

 machinery and other uses requiring power and 

 applicable to that of raising or forcing of fluids. 

 21st January; 6 months. 



To John Yates, Hyde, Chester, calico printer, 

 for having invented a method or process of giving 

 a metallic surface to cotton, silk, linen, and other 

 fabrics. 26th January ; 8 months. 



List of Patents which having been granted in 

 the month f February 1816, expire in the 

 present month of February 1830. 



1. John Millington, London, for machinery 

 by which vessels mat; be propelled in the water. 



3. John George Drake, London, for a certain 

 method of expelling the molasses of syrup out 

 of refined sugar in a shorter time than is at 

 present done with pipe clay. 



John Budgeon, Dart-ford, /or aprocessfor 

 reducing rags or articles composed of silk or 

 cotton after they have beennsed,and bringing 

 them into their original state, and rendering 

 the material of which they are composed fit to 

 be manufactured and again applied to bene- 

 ficial and useful purposes. 



6. John Thomas Dawes, West Bromwicb,/or 

 improvements in steam engines, applicable to 

 other purposes. 



Joseph Barker, Camberwcll, for certain 

 means of continuing the motion of machinery. 



10. William Milton, Heckfield, for improve- 

 ments upon the wheeJs and perches of car- 

 riages. 



20. Henry de Sarul, London, for improved 

 cylindrical gold and silver sweep and washing 

 machine. 



William Baynham,-London,/or a composi- 

 tion for making leather and other article;! 

 water-proof. 



29. Joseph Manton, London, for his improve- 

 ments in fire arms and the shoeing of horses . 



BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 



SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A., F.R.S., 

 LL.D., &C. 



PRESSED as we are for room, it is impos- 

 sible for us to pay the enlarged attention we 

 could wish to the high professional merits 

 of Sir Thomas Lawrence, the President of 

 the Royal Academy, of whom death has just 

 suddenly and unexpectedly deprived us. In- 

 deed, we can do little more than offer a 

 brief and simple statement of the few facts 

 and dates which have come within our know- 

 ledge. 



Mr. Lawrence's father, formerly an offi- 

 cer in the excise, kept the White Lion inn, 

 in Broad-street, Bristol, where the child 

 appears to have been born, in the year 1769. 

 His mother was the daughter of a clergy- 

 man, the incumbent of Tenbury, in Glou- 

 cestershire. He had two brothers and two 

 sisters ; of whom the sole survivor is his 

 younger sister, the wife of Dr. Bloxam, of 

 Rugby. 



When young Lawrence was about a year 

 old, his father removed to Devizes, in Wilt- 

 shire, where he became the landlord of the 

 Black Bear. The old gentleman is de- 

 scribed as a fine tall man, eccentric in 

 dress and manner, sensible and clever, fond 

 of reading and reciting Shakspeare and 

 Milton, and much gratified when his supe- 

 rior guests condescended to become listeners. 

 It is possible that the boy imbibed this pas- 

 sion from his parent ; as Sir Thomas Law- 

 rence was always distinguished for skill, 

 taste, and feeling, in recitation. He was 

 also, in his youth, an elegant dancer, fencer, 

 and billiard-player ; and with an adequate 

 knowledge of music, a capital singer, and 

 performer on the violin. How he first ac- 



quired a taste and talent for drawing, does 

 not appear ; but, when not more than six 

 years old, his skill in sketching likenesses 

 procured for him great celebrity. When 

 about this age, he produced two portraits, in 

 profile, of the late Lord and Lady Kenyon ; 

 the former of which her Ladyship always 

 considered to be the most faithful of any 

 that had been taken of her husband. At 

 the age of nine, it is said, without instruc- 

 tion from any one he was capable of copy- 

 ing historical pictures in a masterly style ; 

 he succeeded also in compositions of his own, 

 particularly in one of Peter denying Christ ; 

 and, in about seven minutes, he scarcely 

 ever failed in producing a strong likeness, 

 distinguished, too, by freedom and grace, of 

 any one who might be present. 



Not succeeding in his occupation as an 

 inn-keeper, at Devizes, his father retired to 

 private life, in Alfred-street. Bath. There, 

 the boy was, for a time, under the profes- 

 sional care of Mr. Hoare. an eminent cray- 

 on painter, and father of Prince Hoare, Esq., 

 the well-known dramatist, &c. There, too, 

 he executed crayon likenesses, at half-a- 

 guinea, and a guinea each, by which means 

 he was the chief, if not sole support of his 

 father, brothers, and sisters. The Hon. 

 John Hamilton and Sir Henry Harpur, 

 Bart., patronized him warmly : the former 

 allowing him access to some fine productions 

 of the old masters, and the latter generously 

 offering to expend 1000. on the completion 

 of his education in Italy. The offer seems 

 to have been somewhat proudly declined. 



In 17?33, before he had completed his four- 

 teenth year, young Lawrence obtained from 

 the Society for the Encouragement of Art, 



