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PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 
| New Patents Sealed in July 1828. 
To John Baring, of Broad-street Build- 
ings, London, merchant, for an improved 
mode of making machines for cutting fur 
from skins for the use of hatters, to be 
called Cant twist blades fur cutter—3d July ; 
6 months. 
To John Johnston Isaac, of Star-street, 
Edgeware-road, Middlesex, engineer, for 
improvements in propelling vessels, boats, 
and other floating bodies —-5th July ; 
6 months. 
To Thomas Reyis, of Kennington-street, 
Walworth, Surrey, watchmaker, for an im- 
proved method of lifting weights—10th July ; 
6 months. 
“To John Hawks, of Weymouth-street, 
Portland-place, Middlesex, iron-manufac- 
turer, for an improvement in the construc- 
tion of ships’ cable and hawser chains— 
10th July ; 6 months. 
To John Henry Anthony Gunther, of 
Camden Town, Middlesex, piano-forte ma- 
nufacturer, for an improvement on piano- 
fortes—10th July ; 2 months. 
To William Muller, of Doughty-street, 
Bedford-row, Middlesex, Captain of our 
German Legion, for an instrument for in- 
structing in mathematical, geography, astro- 
nomy, and other sciences, for the use of 
resolying problems in navigation, spherics, 
and other sciences—10th July ; 6 months. 
To Benjamin Rider, of Redcross-street, 
Southwark, Surrey, hat-tip-manufacturer, 
for certain improvements in the manufac- 
ture of hats, which he intends to denomi- 
nate Rider’s patent hat-tips—1l7th July ; 
6 months. 
- To Joseph Jones, of Amlweh, Anglesea, 
North Wales, Gentleman, for an’ improve- 
ment in certain parts of the process of smelt- 
ing or obtaining metallic copper from copper 
ore—17th July ; 6 months. 
List of Patents, which, having been granted 
in August 1814, expire in the present 
month of August 1828. 
4.—J. Sykes, Sheffield, for improve- 
ments on fire-arms. 
—. J. Collier, London, for a machine 
Sor combing wool, hemp, flax, cotton, &c. 
—. J. Thomson, Yarmouth, Norfolk, for 
making ships governable. 
—. E. C. Howard, London, for separat- 
ing insoluble substances from fluids. 
—. T. Michell, London, for a machine 
Sor raising water with less power than hi- 
therto, and for impelling machinery. 
—. T.S. Pauly, London, for improve- 
ments in fire-arms. 
—. G. Courtald, Braintree, for a spindle 
Sor the manufacture of silk thread. 
—. S. Erard, London, for improvements 
in musical instruments. 
16.—M. Larkin, London, for improve- 
ments in ships’ windlasses. 
17._H. W. Vandercleft, London, for a 
walking staff, to contain a pistol, powder, 
ball, telescope, pen, ink, paper, pencil, 
knife, and drawing utensils. 
22,—R. Salmon, Woburn, for machines 
Sor making hay. 
24,—_J. and G. Dickenson, of Nash Mills, 
for improvements in.machinery for making 
paper. 
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
— 
SIR RALPH WOODFORD, BART. 
This respected and lamented individual 
died on the 17th of May last, in his passage 
from Jamaica to Falmouth. He had been 
nearly fifteen years ‘governor of Trinidad ; 
and his good judgment, steadiness, and sua- 
vity of manners, brought that island from 
its turbulent, self-ruining condition, into a 
state of order, prosperity, and internal hap- 
piness. His health being at last affected 
by so long a residence in a tropical atmo- 
’ e, he made a cruise to Jamaica for 
change of air and scene. But the remedy 
appears to have proved an ill-advised one ; 
for, quitting that island with an increase of 
alarming symptoms, his valuable life termi- 
mated, as has been described, during his 
voyage home, to the more salubrious airs of 
his native country. Sir Ralph Woodford 
was the only son of a worthy and accom- 
plished baronet of the same name; who 
must still be fondly remembered by the few 
Jeft, who, like himself, adorned. by their wit 
and graceful conversation the charming 
circle of the late celebrated Mrs. Montague. 
He was maternally descended from a family 
of old eminence for genius and loyalty—the 
Brideokes, of clerical memory; of whom 
Dr. Brideokes, the ‘‘ sometime’ chaplain 
to James, the fourth Earl of Derby, in the 
reign of Charles I., was one noted instance. 
He afterwards became Dean of Salisbury, 
and, by his extraordinary presence of mind, 
courage, and address, saved the heroic 
Countess of Derby, and her house of La- 
tham, from being stormed by the Cromwell 
army. From this brave and worthy member 
of the church, descended the more imme- 
diate maternal ancestor of Sir Ralph Wood- 
ford, Archdeacon Brideokes, the friend of 
Atterbury : and from whom the family of 
Woodford now possess the Bible which had 
belonged to King James the First. Sir 
Ralph Woodford, the regretted subject of 
this memoir, was, in every respect, worthy 
of his descent from such persons. His 
