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The History and Doctrines of Budhism, popu- 
larly illustrated ; with Notices of the Kappooism, 
or Demon Worship, and of the Ball, or Planetary 
Incantations of Ceylon, By Edward Upham, 
M.A.A.S., with 43 Lithographic Prints, from ori- 
ginal Singalese Designs. Folio £3.3s., coloured 
£5s. 5s. 
An Historical Account of the XXXIX Articles, 
from 1553 to 1571, with exact Copies of the Latin 
and English MSS. By John Lamb, D.D. 
The Testimony of Primitive Antiquity, against 
the Peculiarities of the Latin Church, in Answer 
List of New Works. 
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Strasbourg. S8yo. 6s. boards, : 
Miscellaneous Sermons, preached in the Parish 
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PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 
New Patents sealed in March, 1829, 
To George Haden, of Trowbridge, Wilts, en- 
gineer, for certain improvements in machinery 
for dressing cloths—2d March ; 6 months. 
To William Storey, of Morley, Batley, York, 
plumber and glazier, and Samuel Hirst, of the 
same place, clothier, for certain materials which 
when combined, are suited to be employed in 
scouring, milling or fulling, cleansing and wash- 
ing, of cloths and other fabrics, and by the em- 
ployment of which material, considerable improve- 
ments in those processes are effected.—l0th 
March; 6 months, 
To Riehard Hall, of Plymouth, Devon, tailor 
and wollen draper, for a composition applicable 
to certain fabrics or substances, from which may 
be manufactured boots and shoes, and various 
other articles—10th March ; 6 months. 
To James Wills Wayte, of Drury-lane, Mid- 
dlesex, printer, for certain improvements in 
printing machinery.—19th March ; 6 months. 
List of Patents, which having been granted in 
the month of April 1815, expire in the present 
month of April 1829. 
4. William Vaughan Palmer, Ilminster, for an 
émproved method of twisting and laying hemp 
flax, ropes, twine, wool, silk, §c.; by machinery. 
— Thomas Bagot, Birmingham, for a method 
and machine for passing boats, barges, $c.» 
Srom a higher to a lower level, and vice versa, 
without loss of water. 
8. William Losh, Wallsend, Northumberland, 
for an improved new plan for fire-places or 
furnaces for heating ovens and boilers, and 
converting their fluid contents into steam. 
14. Joshua Shaw, London, for improvements 
in the tool or instrument called the glazier's 
diamond. 
18. William Bell, Birmingham, for a new and 
improved method of making and manufac- 
turing wire of every description. 
20. Michael Billingsley, Bradford, Yorkshire, 
Sor certain improvements in the steam engine, 
25. Samuel John Pauley, London, for improved 
@rial conveyances, and vessels to be steered 
by philosophical or chemical, or mechanicat 
means ; also applicable to vessels or carriages 
on land. 
27. Jacob Wilson, London, Yor improvements 
in bedsteads, and bed furnit&re. 
29. William Bush, junior, Saffron Walden, for 
a method for preventing aecidents from horses 
Salling with two-wheeled carriages, especially 
on steep declivities. 
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
MR. JOHNSTONE. 
The history of the early years of the late 
Mr. John Johnstone, the celebrated thea- 
trical representative of Irish characters, is 
somewhat obscure. Dublin has generally 
had the credit of giving him birth; but, 
according to a source of more probable au- 
thenticity, he was born at Kilkenny, on the 
Ist of August, 1749. One account states, 
that his father was a quarter-master, riding- 
master, and paymaster to one of the regi- 
ments of horse in Ireland ; another, that his 
mother was a dealer in second-hand wear- 
ing apparel, and well known to theatrical 
people; and that, in consequence, little 
Jack acquired an early knowledge of the 
sons of the sock and buskin, became at- 
tached’to the histrionic profession, and en- 
listed under the banners of an itinerant com- 
pany in Iréland. “There is little doubt, we 
believe, that he was employed some years in 
an attorney’s office in Dublin ; and, it is an 
admitted fact, that he was some. time in the 
army, but whether as a private soldier or as 
a cadet, is contested. However, in due time 
he obtained an engagement in Smock ‘Alley 
theatre, Dublin, where he made his first ap-— 
pearance as Lionel, in the opera of Lionel 
and Clarissa. His reception was flattering. 
At that time the favourite songstress of that 
theatre was a Miss Poitier, a young woman 
of unblemished reputation. Johnstone mar- — 
ried this lady, and gradually rose in estima- 
tion as a singer, until he and his wife took 
the lead in that department. Macklin wit-— 
nessed his performances in Ireland, and on— 
his return to London, the veteran recom- 
mended him to Mr. Harris, of Covent-gar- 
den theatre, who engaged him and his wife 
‘for three years, at the weekly salary of four- 
teen, sixteen, and eighteen pounds. It was 
.on the 3d of October, 1783, seven years 
afier he hod made his débi¢ on the Dublin 
stage, that he made his first bow to a Lon- 
don audience, in his favourite part of Lionel. 
He and Mrs. Johnstone were both received 
with considerable éclat. Soon afterwards, 
however, the scandalous chronicles of the 
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