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 LIST OF EXPIRING PATENTS. 



List of Patents which, having been planted in the 

 month of May, 1816, expire in the present month 

 of May, 1830. 



1. John Collier, London, for a machine for 

 shearing' woollen cloths. 



4. John Rongley, Leeds, for further improve- 

 ments in his hydro-pneumatic machine* 



Richard Batiks, Hadley, Salop, for improve- 

 ments in wheeled carriages. 



. William Threadgold, London, for apparatus 

 for insuring in chimneys a passage for smoke. 



Robert Copland, Liverpool, for means for 

 effecting a saving of fuel. 



11. Benjamin Rotch, Bath, for a flexible elastic 

 horse-shoe. 



14. Jean Samuel Pauly, London, for improve- 

 tnents injire-arms. 



Thomas Buxton, Dublin,/or a locTc. 



14. Richard Francis Hawkins, Woolwich, for a 

 plan for tunnels under rivers. 



Daniel Wilson, Dublin, for improved appa- 

 ratus for distilling. 



William Simmons, Wigan,/or improvements 

 applicable to keyed instruments. 



25. Francis Richardson, London, for improve- 

 ments in fire-arms and bayonets. 



Philip Taylor, Bromley, for new application 

 of heat in brewing, distilling, and sugar-refining. 



Christopher Dihl,London,/o-im/-owd mastic 

 cement. 



27- George Dodgson, Shadwell,/<w improved fire- 

 engine and forcing-pump. 



Isaac Hadley Reddell, London, for improved 

 lighting apparatus. 



Robert Kemp,Cork,/o>- improvements in locks 

 and keys. 



30. John Heathcote, Loughborough, for improve- 

 ments in the stocking-frame* 



BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS, 



ADMIRAL SIR EDMUND NAGLE, K.C.B. 



. This gentleman, a native of Ireland, was 

 born about the year 1757 or 1758. Early 

 in life he entered the Royal Navy, in which 

 he had the good fortune to attain the rank of 

 full Admiral. Throughout his career, in- 

 deed, he may be regarded as one of the fa- 

 vourites of fortune. While Post Captain, 

 and in the command of a frigate, he distin- 

 guished himself greatly in an engagement 

 with a ship of much superior force. For 

 that service he received the honour of knight- 

 hood. Sir Edmund married a lady possess- 

 ed of a very ample income. Many years 

 since, he attracted the notice of his present 

 Majesty, who, in 1815, when, as Prince 

 Regent, he created a second class of Knights 

 of the Bath, named Sir Edmund a Knight 

 Commander as the eighth of that rank. At- 

 tending His Majesty in all his naval excur- , 

 sions, he was jocularly designated the King's 

 Naval Aide-de-Camp,. His Majesty appoint- 

 ed him one of the Grooms of the Bedcham- 

 ber. In fact, he stood so high in estimation 

 with his royal master, who loved his nautical 

 humour, that, of late years, he has been al- 

 most domesticated with him. 



Sir Edmund Nagle, however, died at his 

 own house, at East Moulsey, on the 14th of 

 March. He has been succeeded as Groom 

 of the Bedchamber by Henry Hope, Esq. 



MR. KLOSE. 



Mr. F. J. Klose, the son of a well-known 

 musical professor, and himself a teacher, 

 Composer, and able instrumental performer, 

 was a native of London. He studied com- 

 position and the piano-forte under the cele- 

 brated Francesco Tomich and others. In the 

 course of his life he was a member of most 

 of the orchestras in London, particularly of 

 the King's Theatre and the concert of an- 

 cient music. As a piano-forte teacher, he was 

 eminently skilful, and as a composer he was 

 much esteemed for facile works of a descrip- 

 tion calculated to promote the end of instruc- 

 tion. He also excelled in ballads of a pa- 



thetic and sentimental cast. Amongst these 

 may be particularly mentioned Lord Byron's 

 "Adieu! adieu ! my native land;" Lady 

 Caroline Lamb's " Can'st thou bid my heart 

 forget," and others from her ladyship's novel 

 ofGlenarvon; "The Rose had been washed," 

 by Cowper, &c. Indeed the catalogue of his 

 works is very extensive. He was the author, 

 too, of several ballets and detached pieces, 

 performed with success at the King's Theatre. 

 Mr. Klose died in Beaumont Street, Mary- 

 le-bone, on the 8th of March. 



THE DUKE DE LEVIS. 



This nobleman, descended from one of the 

 most ancient families in France, was a son 

 of the Marshal deLevis. At the commence- 

 ment of the French Revolution he was sent 

 as a Deputy to the States General by the 

 nobility of Dijon ; but, neither in the States, 

 nor in the Constituent Assembly, did he act 

 a conspicuous part. Though friendly to a 

 moderate reform, he was disgusted with the 

 republican aspact which the Revolution as- 

 sumed ; and, after the 10th of August, he 

 emigrated, and served in the army of the 

 Princes, and also at Quiberon, where he was 

 wounded. He resided in England till the 

 establishment of the Consular Government, 

 when he returned to France. However, 

 during the usurpation of Buonaparte he did 

 not accept any office, but, in calm retirement, 

 devoted himself entirely to literary pursuits. 

 In 1808 he published Maxims and Reflec- 

 tions on different Subjects; in 1812, The 

 Travels of Kanghi, or new Chinese Letters, 

 2 vols. ; a Continuation of the Four Facar- 

 dins, and of Feneide ; in 1813, Recollections 

 and Portraits ; in 1815, a Notice on Senac de 

 Meilhan ; England at the beginning of the 

 Nineteenth Century; and, in 1816, Moral 

 Considerations on the Finances. 



The Duke de Levis was comprised, in the 

 first promotion of Peers by Louis XVIII. 

 In 1816, he was admitted a member of the 

 French Academy. He died at Paris, this 

 year, early in March. 



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