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present day, and the Scriptural Authority to 
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Villaye Sermons, on Personal and Relative 
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Popular Premises Examined: a Philosophical 
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Inquiry into some Opinions of Christians and 
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PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS, 
List of Patents, which, having been granted 
in January 1815, expire in the present 
month of January 1829. 
4.—Joseph Harris, London, for improve- 
ments in necessaries or clothing used for 
the military in general. 
6.—Christopher Dihl, London, for his 
peculiar means of making mastic cement or 
composition. 
— John Cutler, London, for improve- 
ments in fire-places, stoves, §c. 
16.—James Collier, London, “ a Creo- 
pyrite,” by means of which, power will be 
very economically obtained and applied to 
the raising of water and other useful pur- 
poses. 
16.—Jean Frederic, Marquisde Chabanus, 
London, for his method of extracting a 
greater than usual quantity of calorie from 
fuel, and applying it to warm several rooms 
with one jire. 
2).—Jean Rondoni, London, for his im- 
proved dioptric telescopes. 
— John Carpenter, Truro, for a knap- 
sack which prevents the wet coming be- 
tween it and the back, and pouch suspended _ 
from the shoulder-straps of the former so 
as to counteract its weight. 
28.—James Miller, Liverpool, for im- 
provemenis in the construction of stills, 
Surnaces, chimneys, and other apparatus 
connected with the art of distillation. 
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
MR. BONINGTON. 
Richard Parkes Bonington, a young and 
rising artist, remoyed in the very dawn of 
his fame, was born on the 25th of October, 
1801, at the village of Arnold, near Not- 
tingham. His father was a drawing mas- 
ter, and had some skill in portrait and land- 
scape painting. This may, in some mea- 
sure, account for the very early love and 
devotion which the child, Richard, evinced 
for the fine arts. It is said that, when only 
three years old, he was in the habit of 
sketching almost every object that struck 
his fancy; and that, occasionally, he even 
ventured upon designs in pen and ink. It 
is said, too—but we always receive such 
statements ewm grano salis—that some of 
these designs, yét remaining in the posses- 
sion of his parents, were illustrative of his- 
tory, and surprising for their accuracy. To 
marine subjects—a department of the art, 
in which his talents first became known 
to the public—he was particularly at- 
tached.  — 
Receiving every attention from his father, 
with the view of his adopting the art as a 
profession, Richard Bonington, at the age 
of seven or eight years, made some draw- 
ings from old buildings, at Nottingham, 
which surpassed all his former efforts. 
About the same time, his partiality for 
marine subjects, coast scenery, &c., became 
more decided. At the age of fifteen, his 
ather took him to Paris, where he obtained 
permission to draw in the Louvre. There, 
by his attention to the Italian and Flemish 
schools, he acquired great improvement, 
and attracted much favourable notice. Soon 
afterwards, he became a student at the In- 
stitute, and, also, under the immediate eye 
of M. Le Baron Gros. Rather as _ relaxa- 
tions, than as studies, he, about this time, 
produced several fine drawings of coast 
scenery, fish markets, &c., with groups of 
figures. For these he, at all times, found 
a ready sale. It was at the British gallery, 
in the spring exhibition of 1826, that he 
first became known in England, by. two 
subjects of this description: one of them, 
French coast scenery, the other, the French 
coast, with fishermen. These productions 
were amongst the chief ornaments of their 
class, in the gallery. They evinced a know- 
ledge in grouping, in colouring, in perspec- 
tive, and, especially, in the effects of sun- 
light, that would have reflected honour on 
a veteran of the art. - 
Mr. Bonington’s study from the human 
figure, and, also, from architectural sub- 
jects, was good; but, certainly, his great 
strength and excellence lay in the delinea- 
tion of marine scenery. When he first ex- 
hibited in Paris, his drawing was sold the 
moment the exhibition opened. The next 
time that he came forward, he received the 
gold medal, when Sir Thomas Lawrence 
was decorated with the order of the Legion 
of Honour. : 
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