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PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 



Patenfi sealed in August, 1829. 



To George StraVer, South Shields, Durham, 

 ship builder, for an improvement in ship's wind- 

 lasses. ^25th July ; 2 months. 



To Louis Quetin, Great Winchester-street, Lon- 

 don, professor of mathematics, for Iiis improved 

 vehicle, or combination of vehicles, for the crrriage 

 or conveyance of passengers and luggage.— 25th 

 July ; 6 months. 



To Francis Horatia >felson Drake, esq., Coly- 

 ton-house, Devon, for improvements in tiles for 

 covering houses and other buildings. — 25th July ; 

 6 montlis. 



ToJohnNichoIls,Pershall, Stafford, gentleman, 

 for his improvements in the lever, and the applica- 

 tion of its power.— 25th July ; 2 months. 



To Joshua Bates, Bishopsgate-street, London, 

 merchant, for his improved methodofc instructing 

 steam boilers or generators, whereby the bulk of 

 the boiler, or generator, and the consumption of 

 fuel, are considerably reduced. — Ist August ; 6 

 months. 



To Joshua Bates, of Bishopsgate-street within, 

 London, merchant, for his new process or method 

 of whitening sugar. — 1st. August ; 6 months. 



To John Hutchinson, Liverpool, Lancaster, 

 merchant, for his improvements in machinery for 

 spinning cotton, silk, linen, woollen, and other 

 fibrous substances. — 30th July ; 6 months. 



To Nathaniel Jocelyn, London, late of North 

 America, artist, for his improvements iu the 

 preparation or manufacture of blank forms for 

 banker's checks, bills of exchange, promissory 

 notes, post bills, and other similar instruments, 

 or securities for the exchange of payments of 

 monies, by which forgeries and alterations in the 

 same are prevented or detected. — 3d August ; 4 

 months. 



To Thomas Bailey, Leicester, frame smith, for 

 his improvements in machinery form.iking lace. — 

 Sth August; 6 months. 



To Thomas Brown, Birmingham, Warwick, 

 coach-maker, for his improved coach, particularly 

 adapted for public conveyance and luggage. — Sth 

 August; G months. 



To William Shand, esq., Burn, Kincardinsliire, 

 for his improvements in distillation and evapora- 

 tion. — 10th August; 6 moutlis. 



To John MacLeod, esq., Westminster, surgeon 



on the Madras establishment, for his improve- 

 ments iu preparing or manufacturing certain sub- 

 stances so as to produce barilla. — 10th August ; 2 

 months. 



To James Rowland, Heneage-street, Brook- 

 lane, Spitalfields, Middlesex, and Charles M'Mil- 

 lan, of the same place, engineers and millwrights, 

 for their improved process or mode of construct- 

 ing, forming, or making street-ways, carriage- 

 roads, and high-ways in general. — 11th August; 

 6 months. 



To Thomas Hall Rolfe, Cheapside, London, ' 

 musical instrnment maker, for his improvements 

 upon the self-acting piano-forte.— 11th August; 

 6 months. 



To Edward Weeks, King's-road, Chelsea, Mid- 

 dlesex, horticultural builder, for his improvements 

 in raising, lowering, or conveying heated wateri 

 or other fluids, to various distances. — 14th Au- 

 gust ; 6 months. 



To Henry Cruyer Price, and Charles Fox Price, 

 Bristol, ironmongers, for their improvements in 

 and upon certain apparatus, aheaiy known for 

 the communicating of heat, by means of the cir- 

 culation of fluid. — 20th August; 6 months. 



To John Musket, York-square, Regent's-park, 

 Middlesex, gentleman, for a certain medicine, 

 found of essential and peculiar benefit in gouty 

 affections of the stomach, spasms, cramps, in- 

 flammation of the lungs, violent and confirmed 

 couglis, pains after child-birth, and in other pains 

 in the breast and bowels, beyond any other medi- 

 cine or application in like cases.— 20th August; 

 2 months. 



To John Jones, Leeds, Yorkshire, brush-maker, 

 for his improvements in machinery or apparatus 

 for dressing and finishing woollen cloths. — 21at 

 August ; 6 months. 



To William Roger, Norfolk-street, Strand, Mid- 

 dlesex, Lieutenant in the royal navy, for his im- 

 provements in the construction of anchors. — 21st 

 August ; 6 mouths. 



Patent, which having been granted in the 

 month of September 1S15, expires in the pre- 

 sent month of September 1829. 



9. Thomas Ashmore, London, fur his new 

 mode of making leather. 



BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 



THE COUNTESS OF DERBY. 



Considering the great popularity of 

 Miss Fanen as an actress, and tlie extraordi- 

 nary iclat of her marriage with the ICarl of 

 Derby, it is remarkable how slight has been 

 the interest created by her final exit. But, 

 such is human celebrity, l)y whatever means 

 acquired : Nelson and the victory of Tra- 

 falgar, once in every mouth and in every 

 heart, are now seldom mentioned ; and the 

 time will come when Wellington, and the 

 glories of W^aterloo — Wellington, with his 

 premiership to boot — will also fade from 

 the general memory of the land. 



ELza Fnrrcn, born in 17&1>, wii» of a re- 



spectable though not opident family : her 

 father was a surgeon in the city of Cork ; 

 her mother, the daughter of ]\ir. Wright, 

 at eminent brewer at Liverpool ; her pa- 

 ternal uncle a Captain in t)ic CJth regiment 

 of foot, a gentleman distinguished also by 

 his literary taste and talent. Mr. Farren, 

 too fond of gay society, failed in his pro- 

 fession, became a provincial actor, died, and 

 left a young and destitute family at an early 

 period of life. The children were educated 

 by Mrs. Farren, who devoted herself iiide- 

 fatigal)ly to their care. The stage was their 

 only support. Kitty, the eldest of seven, 

 was considered clever in the parts of chani- 

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