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PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 
— 
New Patents Sealed in August 1828. 
To Anton Bernhard, of Finsbuty-square, 
Middlesex, engineer, for a method, or prin- 
ciple, or apparatus, for raising water or 
other fluids—24th July ; 6 months. 
To Robert Wornum, of Wigmore-street, 
Cavendish-square, Middlesex, piano-forte- 
maker, for certain improvements on upright 
piano-fortes—24th July ; 2 months. 
To Joseph Clisild Daniell, of Lumphey 
Stoke, Bradford, Wilts, clothier, for cer- 
tain improvements applicable to the ma- 
nufacturing and preparing of woollen cloth 
—5th August ; 6 months: 
To John Lane Higgins, of Oxford-street, 
Middlesex, gentleman, fer certain improve- 
ments on wheel carriages—lith August ; 
6 months. 
To William Mencke, of Park-place, 
Peckham, Surrey, gentleman, for certain 
improvements in “preparing materials for, 
and in the making or manufacturing of 
Bricks—11th August; 6 months. 
To Lewis Roper Fitzmaurice, of Jamaica- 
place, Commercial-road, Middlesex, master 
in the royal navy, for improvements on 
ship and other pumps, which improvements 
are also applicable by certain alterations to 
turning lathes and other purposes—11th 
August; 6 months. © ‘ 
To William Grisenthwaite, of the town 
of Nottingham, Esq., for a new process for 
making sulphate of magnesia, commonly 
called epsom salts—11th August; 6 months. 
To Henry Maxwell, of No. 99, Pall 
Mall, Middlesex, spur-maker, for an im- 
provement in spring spur sockets—13th 
August ; 2 months. ' 
To Thomas Stirling, of the Commercial- 
road, Lambeth, Surrey, for certain improve- 
ments on filtering apparatus—16th August ; 
6 months. 
To Benjamin Matthew Payne, of the 
Strand, Middlesex, scale-maker, for certain 
improvements on weighing machines — 
18th August ; 6 months. 
To Edward Barnard, of Narlsworth, near 
Minchinhampton, Gloucester, clothier, for 
certain improvements in weaving and pre- 
paring cloth—198th August ; 6 months. 
To Philip Foxwell, clothier, William 
Clark, cloth-dresser, and Benjamin Clark, 
cloth-dresser, all of Dye-house mill, Min- 
chinhampton, Gloucester, for certain im- 
provements on machinery, for shearing, 
cropping, or cutting, and finishing woollen 
and other cloths and kerseymeres—I#th 
August ; 6 months. 
To William Sharp, of Manchester, Lan- 
caster, cloth-spinner, for certain improve- 
ments in machines for spinning, or roving, 
of cloth, silk, wool, or other fibrous sub- 
stances—19th August ; 6 months. 
List of Patents, which, having been granted 
in September 1814, expire in the present 
month of September 1828. 
8. J. Penny and J. Kendall, Lancaster, 
for making pill and other small boxes. 
- 21. W. Lister, Paddington, for improve- 
ments in a machine for separating corn or 
seeds from straw and chaff: 
— J. Taylor, Manchester, for improve- 
menis in a loom for weaving. fe 
— W. E. Sheffield, Somers-town, for 
improvemenis in manufacturing copper 
and other metallic substances. 
— J. Dobbs, Birmingham, for improve- 
menis in manufacturing machines for cut- 
ling and gathering in grain. 
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
MISS TOMLINS. 
Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins, daughter of 
Thomas Tomlins, Esq., a solicitor of good 
practice in the city of London, and well 
known in political circles at the close of the 
last century, was born on the 27th of Fe- 
bruary, 1763. Her vivacity and tenderness 
of disposition—distinguishing features, of 
her character—were fostered by the correct 
taste of an excellent mother. The poetical 
talent, which entitles her to notice here, 
manifested itself at an early age, in several 
“ Tributes of Affection,”’ published under 
that title, by her brother. a 
Without any particular advantages of si- 
tuation, she soon became acquainted with 
many persons of talent, of that period, who, 
through their intercourse with her father, 
professionally, were introduced to her so- 
ciety, and attracted by her intellectual su- 
periority. In the warm and generous feel- 
ings of youth, she, with many others, hailed 
the dawn, as it was then regarded, of a 
better and more refined age; and, subse- 
quently, she mourned the demolition of her 
hopes, by the mock champions of liberty, in 
numerous miscellaneous effusions, yet extant 
in the periodical publications of the time. 
Turning her attention to the composition of 
tales and noyels, she gave successively, and 
in most instances successfully, several vo- 
lumes to the press. The most popular of 
these performances was, “ The Victim of 
Fancy,”’ founded on the model of Goéthe’s 
“¢ Werther.’’ It evinced much of the pathos 
of the original, without the ‘objectionable 
tendency of its moral. Her original pro- 
ductions consist, further, of “ The Baroness 
