1829.) 
improvements in, or additions to, harness 
and saddlery; part, or parts of which im- 
provements or additions are applicable to 
other purposes—7th January; 6 months. 
To Archibald Robertson, of Liverpool, 
ship carver, for certain improvements in the 
construction of Paddles for propelling ships, 
boats, or vessels on water—7th January : 
6 months. 
To James Deakin and Thomas Deakin, 
of Sheffield, merchants and manufacturers 
of hardware, for certain methods of making 
from horns and hoofs of animals various 
articles—14th January ; 2 months. 
To John Dickinson, of Nash Mill, in the 
parish of Abbotts Langley, Hertford, paper 
manufacturer, for a new improvement in 
the method of manufacturlng paper by ma- 
chinery ; and also a new method of cutting 
paper and other materials into single sheets 
or pieces, by means of machinery—14th 
January ; 6 months. 
To Thomas Smith, of the borough of 
Derby, engineer, for an improved piece of 
machinery, which, being combined with 
parts of the steam engine, or other engines, 
such as pumps, fire engines, water wheels, 
air pumps, condensers, and blowing engines, 
will effect an improvement in each of them 
respectively—l4th January; 6 months. 
To Chuck Hewes, of Manchester, en- 
gineer, for various improvements in the 
form and construction of wind-mills and 
their sails—14th January ; 6 months. 
To John Uldney, of Arbour-terrace, Com- 
mercial-road, Middlesex, Esq., for certain 
improvements in the steam engine—l4th 
January ; 2 months. 
To William Erskin Cockrane, of Regent- 
street, for an improvement in or on paddle- 
wheels for propelling boats and other vessels 
—l4th January ; 6 months. 
To James Moore Ross, of Symond’s Inn, 
List of Patenis. 
213 
Middlesex, ironmonger, for an improved 
tap or cock for drawing off liquids—19th 
January ; 2 months. 
To John Hopper Caucy, of Aylesbury- 
street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, for certain 
improvements in the construction of um- 
brellas and parasols—2Ilst January; 2 
months. 
List of Patents, which, having been granted 
in February 1815, expire in the present 
month of February 1829. 
4. John Wood, Manchester, for his im- 
provements im machinery for preparing 
and spinning cotton, wool, &c. 
— Joseph and Peter Taylor, Manches- 
ter, for their improvement in a loom for 
weaving cotton, worsted, silk, or other 
cloth. 
— James Thompson, Primrose-hill, 
Lancaster, for an improved process of 
printing cloth made of cotton, or linen, or 
silk. 
7. William Griffith, London, for an im- 
proved toast-stand. 
9. Richard Jones Tomlinson, Bristol, 
for improvements in the method of framing, 
Sc. the roofs of buildings. 
13. William Moult, London, for an im- 
proved mode of evaporation and subliming. 
21. Jonah Dyer, Wootton-under-edge, for 
an improved frame or machine for shearing 
woollen cloth. 
— Joseph Burrell, Thetford, for a sup- 
port and safeguard in getting in and ou} 
of chaises, and other two-wheeled carriages, 
28. Ralph Dodds, and George Stephen- 
son, Killingsworth, for their improvements 
in the construction of locomotive engines. 
28. Samuel Brown, London, for a rudder 
and apparatus for producing effects not 
hitherto practised or known. 
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
LIEUT. COLONEL WILLIAM DICKSON. 
This distinguished officer, (commanding 
the 7th regiment Bengal cavalry, at Kernaul, 
in the upper provinces, ) was in the 47th year 
of hisage. He was the eldest son of the late 
Thomas Dickson, Esq. of Southampton ; 
and, by his mother’s side, descended from 
Colonel Gardiner, whose confessions are 
well known, and who was killed at the head 
of his regiment at the battle of Preston Pans, 
in 1745. Colonel Dickson entered the army 
in 1802, and has all his life been in the ac- 
tive service of his country in the East Indies. 
He was noticed by Lord Lake for his gallant 
conduct in the campaigns of that General, 
and was twice severely wounded. For several 
years afterwards, the management of one 
of the principal stud departments was en- 
trusted to his superintendance. His merits 
as a cavalry officer were well known and 
appreciated by government; and, a very 
few months before his death, the highest 
eulogiums were passed on his meritorious 
conduct, and on the discipline of his regi- 
ment, by Lord Combermere. His death 
was suddenly produced by a violent fever, 
which cut short his career, just as he was 
on the eve of returning to his family in 
England, having completed his period of 
service, and earned an honourable retire- 
ment. This is the third brother who has 
fallen in the military service of the East 
India Company, either on the field of 
battle, or from the effects of the climate ; 
and his mother, who now survives him, at 
a very advanced age, has only one of her 
large family to soothe her declining age, 
(the present Peter Dickson, Esq. of South- 
ampton). Colonel Dickson was married at 
a very early age, and has left a widow and 
several children, who are, we believe, in 
England. He was a man of very consider- 
