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‘The pall was supported by the Lord 
Chancellor, Lord Chief Baron Shepherd 
(the Chief Baron’ of Scotland), Mr. Justice 
Bayly, and Mr. Justice Gaselée, on one 
side, and on the other, Lord Chief Justice 
‘Abbot, Lord Chief Justice Best, Sir Wm. 
Grant, and Mr. Justice Park: After the 
first part of the funeral service had been 
fread, the body was removed to the vault, 
whither it was followed by Mr. W. Gif- 
ford and Mr. C. Gifford (the brothers of 
Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 
the deceased); Mr. Alderson, and Mr. §, - 
Drewe; Sir James Mackintosh, and Mr. 
Drewe ; Mr. Burford, and Mr: Rowe ; Mr. 
Hine, and Mri Sykes: In thie body of the 
chapel, were the i an and’ Solicitor- 
General; Sir Charles Forbes,’ and Mr. 
Spencer; Mr. Serjeant Adams,’ Mr: Ser- 
jeant Cross, Mr. Dover, ‘Mr: Harris, the 
Rey. Mr. Alderson, ‘Mr: Mavild, “Mr. 
a Mr. Nane, Mr. Serjeant’ ‘Rough, 
PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS, 
New Patents sealed, 1826. 
To J. C. Schwieso, Regent-street, mu- 
sical instrument maker, for improvements 
on certain stringed musical instruments— 
Sealed 22d August; 6 months. 
To T. Burstall, Leith, and J. Hill, 
Bath, Engineers, for improvemets in ma- 
chinery for propelling loco-motive carriages 
—22d August; 6 months. 
To F. Halliday, Esq., Ham, Surrey, 
for improvements in raising or forcing - 
water—25th August; 6 months. 
To W. Downe, Sen., Exeter, plumber 
and brass-founder, for improvements on 
water closets—25th August ; 6 months. 
To R. Busk, and W. K. Westly, Leeds, 
flax-spinners, for improvements in ma~ 
chinery for flecking or dressing, and for 
breaking seutching or cleaning hemp-flax 
or other fibrous substances—29th August; 
6 months. 
To W. Day, Strand, trunk and camp 
equipage maker, for improvements on bed- 
steads, which improvements are also appli- 
cable to other purposes—3lst August; 6 
months. 
To T. R. Williams, Gent. Norfolk-street, 
Strand, for a machine for separating burs 
or other substances, from wool, hair, or 
fur—18th September ; 2 months. 
To T. R. Williams, Gent., Norfolk- 
street, Strand, for an improved method of 
manufacturing hats and caps, with the as- 
sistance of machinery—18th September; 6 
months. 
List of Patents, which, having been granted 
in October 1812, expire in the present 
month of October 1826. 
23. Francis Deakin, of Deritend Mills, 
Warwick, for his new method of making 
knife, scissors, and various other cases or 
sheaths. 
23. Thomas Pardoe, London, for anew 
method of working the patterns in’ Kidder- 
minster or Scotch carpeting. 
31. John Lewis, London, for improve- 
ment on horse-shoes and in shoeing horses. 
— William Congreve, London, for an im- 
proved system of securing buildings, &c. from 
fire, and for raising water to the tops of 
buildings. : 
— Edward Charles Howard, of West- 
bourn Green, for a process of preparing and 
refining sugars. : 
Peter Nouaille, Greatness, near 
Sevenoaks, for a method of saving water in 
mechanical and hydraulic purposes. 
— Benjamin Cook, Birmingham, for an 
improved method of making window-blinds, 
fire-screens, doors, picture-frames, and various 
other useful and ornamental articles, 
— William Caslon, London, for his 
improved printing-type. 
— Joseph Bramah, London, for an im- 
proved sysjem of constructing and arranging 
main and other pipes ; for supplying towns, 
Sc. with water, and applying the water so 
conveyed to a variety of other useful pur- 
poses. . 
— Robert Salmon, Woburn, for im- 
proved guards and shades for windows. 
— William Evetts Sheffield, London, 
for improved apparatus and furnaces for se- 
parating metallic and other substances from 
el ores, or whatever may be combined with 
them. 
— Thomas Lea, Kidderminster, for 
certain improvements in the making of car- 
pets. 
MONTHLY MEDICAL REPORT. : ‘ 
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Rain has fallen in great abundance during the last month, ‘and the nights have been 
often extremely cold. This state of the weather has, as‘usual, exerted an influence over 
the disorders of the human frame. 
The prevailing diseases of the month ‘have been 
fever, rheumatism, sore throat, and cholera ; and perhaps of all‘ the catalogue of ‘com- 
plaints, none could be mentioned which are more unequivocally connected with atmos+ 
pheric influence: 
Hii, 
The fever of the last month has been of a remarkably mild character. In the’ practieé 
of a large public institution to which the reporter is attached (the St. Ge 
orge’s! and 
St. James’s Dispensary), and which admits upon an average two hundred patients ina 
month, not a single instance has terminated unfavourably. Many cases indeed 
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