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List of Patents. 



[APRIL, 



for a certain combination of or improve- 

 ments in springs, applicable to carriages, 

 and other purposes. 27 ch February; 2 

 months. 



To Joseph Chessebourough Dyer, Man- 

 chester, Lancaster, patent card manufac- 

 turer, for certain improvements on, and 

 additions to, machines or machinery for 

 conducting to, and winding upon, spools, 

 bobbins, or barcells, rovings of cotton, flax, 

 wool, or other fibrous substances of the like 

 nature. 2?th February ; 6 months. 



To William Grisenthwaite, Esq., Not- 

 tingham, for having invented certain im- 

 provements in steam engines. 27th Feb- 

 ruary ; 6 months. 



To Robert William Sievier, South- 

 ampton Row, Russell Square, St. George's 

 Bloomsbury, Middlesex, sculptor, for hav- 

 ing invented certain improvements in the 

 construction of rudders for navigating ves- 

 sels 27th February ; 6 months. 



To Simon Thompson, Great Yarmouth, 

 Norfolk, mariner's compass maker, for 

 having invented certain improvements in 

 piano-fortes. 27th February ; 6 months. 



To William Howard, Rotherhithe, Sur- 

 rey, iron manufacturer, for having invented 

 certain improvements in the construction of 

 wheels for carriages. 27th February; 6 

 months. 



To Philip Chilwell I)e la Garde, Exeter, 

 gentleman, for having invented certain im- 

 provements in apparatus for fidding and 

 unfidding masts, and in masting and 



rigging of vessels 27th February; 6 



months. 



To Thomas Prosser, Worcester, archi- 

 tect, for having invented certain improve- 

 ments in the construction of window sashes, 

 and in the mode of hanging the same. 

 Cth March ; 6 months. 



To Thomas Richard Gappy, Bristol, 

 sugar refiner, for having invented a new 

 apparatus for granulating sugar. . 6th 

 March ; 6 months. 



To Ralph Stephenson, Colridge, Staf- 

 ford, potter, for having invented improve- 

 ments in machinery for making bricks, 

 tiles, and other articles. (Jth March ; 

 months. 



To James Ramsay, and Andrew Ram- 

 say, Greenoch, North Britain, cordage and 

 sail-cloth manufacturers, and Matthew Orr, 

 Greenoch, aforesaid, sail maker, for having 

 invented an improvement in the manufac- 

 ture of canvass and sail-cloth for the making 

 of sails 20th March ; 6 months. 



To George Scott, Water Lane, London, 

 engineer, for having invented certain im- 

 provements on, or additions to, windlasses 

 and relative machinery, applicable to naval 

 purposes. 20th March ; 6 months. 



To John Alexander Fulton, Lawrence 

 Poultney Lane, Cannon Street, London, 

 merchant, for having invented an improve- 

 ment in the preparation of pepper. 20th 

 March, 6 months. 



To William Erskine Cochrane, Esq., 

 Regent Street, Middlesex, for having in- 

 vented an improvement, or improvements, 

 on his patent cooking apparatus. 20th 

 March ; 6 months. 



To Benjamin Rotch, Furnival's Inn, 

 Middlesex, barrister at law, for having in- 

 vented improved guards, or protections, - 

 for horses' legs and feet, under certain 

 circumstances 20th March ; 12 months. 



List of Patents which, having been granted in 

 the month of April, 1816, expire in the pre 

 sent month of April 1830. 



William Lewis Brimscoinb, dyer, for a ma- 

 chine for fulling cluths. 



Joseph Turner, Yorkshire, mechanic, for an 

 improved rotatory engine. 



John Woodhouse, Bromgrovp, civil engineer, 

 for a method of forming the ground for road* 

 and pavements. 



Wm. Atkinson, Rentinck Street, architect, for 

 a method of forming blocks u-ith tricks and 

 cetmnt in form of Ashlar -stone for building. 



Wm. Stenson, Colcford, engineer, for an im- 

 proved engine, by steam or other power. 



Win. Lasalle, Hristol, apothecary, for the im- 

 provement of gig and cards in clothing manu- 

 factories. 



Gco. Bodley, Exeter, f minder, for an improved 

 metallic engine to work either by steam or 



BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 



GENERAL GNEISENAN. 



General Count Gneisenan was a native of 

 Prussia, and was universally regarded, not 

 only as one of the bravest, but one of the 

 most able and most scientific generals of 

 the age. His military knowledge was re- 

 markably extensive ; his eye was quick and 

 keen ; cool and clear headed, his judgment 

 was distinguished by its soundness ; and 

 comprehending, in an instant, as it were, 

 the capabilities of every thing around him, 

 lie possessed extraordinary promptness and 

 firmness of decision. Under the most dis- 

 astrous reverses even when resorting to 

 measures apparently verging upon rash- 



ness his presence of mind never failed 

 him ; his orders and instructions were uni- 

 formly given with the utmost decision, pro- 

 piety, and calm intrepidity. At the close 

 of the late war he served in the capacity of 

 head of the staff to the Prussian main army, 

 under Marshal Blucher ; and it was a com- 

 mon saying amongst the officer, " Gneise- 

 nan plans our operations, and Blucher 

 carries them into effect." . To his skill in 

 the higher branches of military tactics no 

 greater compliment than this could be 

 paid. 



This distinguished officer was born in 

 the year 1760 ; and from his early youth he 



