1825.) 
ease of losing an anchor: and in ease, also, 
of foul ground having deprived one of his 
anchors of a fluke or an arm, the hoops can 
be remoyed, and the broken half-anchor be 
replaced by a perfect one. 
[The first Parent granted by the Recrnx, 
will ExPIRE in the present Month, viz. 
For a chimney-sweeping machine: to 
James Hume, of Percy-street, Middlesex; 
dated 28th February, 1811.] 
A List or Parents ror New Inven- 
TIoNs, granted in November 1824. 
~- Novy. 1,—For improvements on lace-making 
machines: to Joun Lincrorp, of Notting- 
ham.—Six months allowed for enrolling the 
specification. 
4.—For a method of preventing the acci- 
dental discharge of fire-arms: to the Rev. 
Joun Somervitte, of Currie, near Edin- 
burgh.—Two months. 
4.—For securing the egress of smoke and 
rarefied uir from chimneys: to Joun Cros- 
uey. of Cottage-lane, Middlesex. — Six 
months. 
4.—For improvements in the -nasting of 
vessels: to Tuomas Ricuarpn Guppy, of 
Bristol, Gloucestershire. —Six months. 
4.—For improved machinery for making 
cord or plait laces, for boots, stays, or other 
purposes; to Joun Heap, of Banbury, Ox- 
fordshire—Four months. 
_ 4,.—For making improved augers and bits 
for boring: to Wit11sm Cuurcu, of Bir- 
mingham, Warwickshire.-—Six months. 
4,—For improvements in propelling boats 
or vessels: to Witt14m Burx, of Broad- 
street, London.—Six months. 
6.—For an improved air-furnace, for the 
forging of metals: to Joun Wunire, jun., and 
Tuomas Sowersy, of Bishop-Wearmouth, 
Durham.— Four months. 
6,—For improvements upon steam-engines : 
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to Joun Moors, of Broad-weir, Bristol, 
Glouc.— Six months. 
6.—For an improved percussion-cock to a 
gun-lock, for securing the priming: to Tuo- 
mas CaRTMELL, of Doncaster, Yorkshire.— 
Two months, 
11.— For a kiln for making coke and burn- 
ing lime, at one operation: to CHarnEs 
Heatuosn, of Maidstone, Kent,— Two 
months, 
11.—For improvements in the making of 
bricks, and drying them by flues and steam : 
to Wittram Learny, of Great Guildford- 
street, Surrey.—Six months. 
11.—For a furnace on a new construction - 
the invention imported, and patent to Pierre 
Brunet, of Wimpole-street, Middlesex,— 
Six months. : 
20.—For improvements in dressing woollen 
cloth ; to Joseru Cuisitp Daniet, of Stoke, 
Wilts.—Four months, 
20.—For a cock or tap for drawing-off 
liquids: to Isaac Tay1or, jun., of Chipping- 
Ongar, Essex.— Two months. 
20.—For improved clamps for burning 
bricks: to Witt1am Ruopxs, of Hoxton, 
Middlesex.—Six months, 
23.—For improvements in the making of 
paper: to Louis Lampert, of Cannon-street, 
London.—Six months. 
23.—For diaphane stuffs, or fabrics with 
transparent and coloured figures; the inven- 
tion imported, and patent to SrrpuzN Wir- 
son, of Streatham, Surrey.—Six months. 
25.—For improvements in ships? tackle: 
to Wituram Suenron Burnerr, of New 
London-street, Middlesex.—Six months. 
29.—For improved healds in weaving of 
cotton, woollen, silk, &c.: to Joun Oszar- 
peston, of Shire-brow, Lancashire. — Six 
months, 
29.— For a substitute for leather, and other 
articles: to 'THomas Hancock, of Goswell- 
mews, Middlesex.—Six months, 
SPIRIT OF PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOVERY, AND OF THE 
VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 
HAT the Zodiacal Monuments found in 
Egypt were Astrological Horoscopes of 
the nativities of individual persons, and not 
purely Astronomical Records, as some learn- 
ed writers have maintained, and thereon 
built the most absurd theories as to the 
age of the world, has recently been shewn, 
in a work published at Paris, by M. La- 
tronne. M. Caillard, some time ago, 
brought from Thebes, m Egypt, a mummy, 
contained in a painted chest; which had on 
its lid, an inscription in Greek, which pur- 
ports that the deceased was Ammonius 
Petcmemnon, son of Soter and Cleopatra, 
born in the reign of Trajan, and aceording 
to our mode of computation, on the 12th 
of January, A.D. 95, and died on the 2d 
of June 116. At the first of these dates, 
our astronomical tables shew, that the sun 
Montuty Mac. No. 406. 
was in the 16th degree of Capricorn, 
Withinside the lid of thismummy chest, there 
is printed a zodiac, the Goat being depicted 
above the head of a figure of the deceased - 
on a bandlet, on the left side of which fi. 
gure, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the 
Scorpion and Archer descend, in this or- 
der; and upon a similar bandlet on the 
right side, extending towards the head of 
the figure, are seen the Water-urn, the 
Fish, the Ram, the Bull; the Twins ana 
the Crab, And from the configuration of 
these signs, nearly coinciding with those of 
the Temple of Dendera, M. Latronne eon- 
cludes that the two zodiacs here, and the 
two of U’sne, may relate to Augustus and 
Tiberius, to Claudius and Adrian; and 
that in the minor temple, perhaps, to An- 
toninus. 
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