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PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS, 



Patents t/raiiled. 

 To John McCurily, Esq., of Cecil- 

 street, Strand, for improvements in gene- 

 rating steam — Sealed 27th December; 6 

 months. 



To Jiinics Ogston and James Thomas 

 Bell, of Davies-street, Berkeley-square, 

 watchmakers, for improvements in tlie 

 construction of watclies — Gtli January; 2 

 months. 



To Richard Evans, of Bread-street, and 

 Queen's-street, Cheapside, coffee merchant, 

 for imi>rovements in distillation — 7th Ja- 

 imary ; 6 months. 



To Henry Houldsworth the younger, 

 of Manchester, for improvements in ma- 

 chinery for giving tlie taking up or winding 

 on motion to sjjooIs or Iwbbins and tubes, 

 or other instruments, on wliich the roving 

 or thread is wound, in roving, spinninif, 

 and twisting machines — IGth Januarj'; 6 

 months. 



To Benjamin Newmarch, Esq., of Chel- 

 tenham, for invention of an improved 

 method of exploding fire-arms; — 16th Ja- 

 nuary; 6 months. 



To John Rotliwell, of INIancliester, tape- 

 manufacturer, for an improved heald or 

 harness for weaving junposcs — IGth Ja- 

 nuary; 2 months. 



To Henrj' Anthony Keymans, of Wani- 

 ford-court, Throgmorton-street, for im- 

 provements in Morka for inland navigation 

 — 16th Januai-y ; 6 months. 



To John Frederick Smith, Esq., of 

 Dunston Hall, Chesterfield, for imjjrove- 

 ments in the process of drawing, roving, 

 spinning, and doubling wool, cotton, and 

 other fibrous substances — 19th Jaimury ; 6 

 months. 



To William Whitfield, of Birmingham, 

 for improvements in manufacturing haniUes 

 for saucepans, kettles, &c. — 19th January; 

 6 months. 



To Benjamin Cook, of Birmingliain, for 

 improvements in hinges of various descrip- 

 tions — 19th January; 6 months. 



To Abraham Robert Lorent, of Gotten- 

 bm^h, for a method of applying steam 

 without pressure to pans, boilers, coppers, 



&c., in order to p/'oducc vanous tempera- 

 tures of heat in the processes of boiling, 

 distilling, &c., and also to produce power 

 — 19th January; 6 months. 



To Sir Robert Sepi).'ngs, surveyor of 

 our navy, of Somerset House, for an 

 improved construction of made masts and 

 made bows))rit.s — 19tli January; 2 nioiitlis. 



To Robert Stejjhenson, of Bridge Town, 

 for Ills invention of axletrees to remedy llie 

 extra friction on curves to waggons, &:c., 

 to be used on rail-roads, trainways, and 

 other public roads — 23d Jan. ; 6 months. 



A List (if Patents, which, fm> 

 lied in February 1812, will 



of February, viz 



i List of Patents, which, fmving been 

 t/ran'.ed in February 1812, will expire in 

 tlie present MonUi of February, viz. . 



-t. To John Leberecht Steinhouser, of 

 Piccadilly, for an improvement applicable 

 to Jirescrectu, tnusic-stunds or reading 

 desks, and candelobras. 



4. Samuel Roberts, of Sheffleld, for 

 a method of nuihinrj bowls or wnsh-bnsons 

 of metal, tnuch more elt^ant and useful than 

 have hitherto been und. 



6. Robert Goswell Giles, of London, 

 for a cap or cowl to prevent smoke being 

 driven down chimnies with the wind. 



6. William Palmer, of Blackfriars'-road, 

 for revolving roller wheels to facilitate the 

 draught of curriafjes. 



8. Jeremiah Steele, of Livei"pool, for a 

 new diililling apparatus. 



8. Robert Dickinson, of Great Queen- 

 street, and Henry Maudslay, of Lambeth, 

 for a process of sweetening water and other 

 liquids applicable to other purposes. 



19. Thomas Figgins, of Portsmouth, 

 for a palanquin couch. 



19. George Dellond, St. Paul's Clmrch 

 Yard, for an improved method of lighting 

 the binnacle compass in ships. 



27. Louis Honore Henry Germain Con- 

 stant, of Blandford-street, for a new me- 

 thod of refining sugars. 



27. Francis Purden, of Litchfield, for an 

 improved horse-boot, for the preservation of 

 round and the restoration of contracted 

 hoofs. 



WORKS IN THE PRESS, AND NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



WORKS IN THE FRESS. 



A collection of French poetry is about to 

 be published in volumes, entitled Poets 

 of the Nineteenth Century. 



Cameleon Sketches, by the author of 

 the Promenade round Dorking, will be 

 ready early in the ensuing month. 



Sir John Byerly is said to be preparing 

 for the press an exteiisive work, entitled, 

 The Life and Times of Napoleon. 



The Rev. J. Roquet has in tlie press a 

 Critical Examination of the Seventeenth 

 Article of the Chiu-ch of England. 



New editions of Moore's Life of Sheri- 

 dan, and Matilda, a Tale of the Day, are 

 just ready. 



Mr. Alexander Barclay, lately and for 

 twenty-one years resident in Jamaica, lias 

 in the press a Practical View of the jiresent 

 State of Slavery in tlie West Indie?, with 



