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List <yf Patents. 



[Oct. 



and other fire-arms In place of locks. — I'Ah Sep- 

 tember ; 6 months. 



To Geoige Harris, Brompton-cresccnt, Middle- 

 sex, Caplain in the Royal Navy, for his improve- 

 ments in the manufacture ot ropes and cunlage, 

 canvass and other fabrics or articles, from sub- 

 stances hitherto unused for that purpose. — ]5tb 

 Septomher ; 6 months. 



To Jaracs Milne, Edinburgh, architect, for his 

 machine or engine for dressing stones used in 

 masonry, by thj assistance of a steam-engine, a 

 wind, a hoj se, or a water power, whereby a gi eat 

 (juantity of manual labour will be saved.— ISth 

 SSeptetnber; 6 months. 



To John Aitcliison, Clyde-buildings, Glasgow, 

 Lanark, merchant, for his improvements in the 

 oonccni rating and evaporating of cane juice, so- 

 lutions of sugar, and other fluids. — 15th Septem- 

 ber; 6 months. 



To Thomas Cobb. Calthorpe-housc, Hradbury, 

 Oxford, esq., for his iniprovements in the manu- 

 facture of paper, intended to be applied to the co- 

 veiing of walls, or the hanging of rooms, and in 

 the apparatus for cITecting the same.-— IStli 

 September ; *i nifnitiis. 



To Thomas W'estwood, of Princes-street, Lei- 

 cester-squaie, Middlesex, watch-maker, fur his 

 improvements in watches and time-keepers. — 23d 

 September ; C months. 



To Isaac lirown, Gloucester-street, Clerkenwell, 

 Middlesex, watch-maker, for his improvements 

 applicable to watches and other horologieal ma- 

 chines. — 23d September ; 2 months. 



To Hayward Tyler, Warwick-lane, London, 

 brass-founder, for his improvements in tlie con- 

 struction of water-closets. — i3d September; 2 

 m«nths. 



BIOGKAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 



wn. hahon huli.ock. 



Sir John Hullock, Knt., one of the Ba- 

 rons of the Excliequer, was born in the year 

 \^^'>'.^. He was descended from an ancient 

 family in the north, possessing considerable 

 estates near Barnard Castle, in the county 

 of Durham. In early life, lie entered as a 

 bencher of Gray's Inn, and was in due 

 course called to the bar, at which he prac- 

 tised upwards of twenty years with the repu- 

 tation of being one of the soundest lawyers 

 in Westminster Hall. He was then pro- 

 moted to the rank of Serjeant at Law. 

 During the few years that he remained 

 Serjeant, he was engaged in several im- 

 portant causes. He was retained by go- 

 vernment to conduct some momentous pro- 

 Kccutions arising out of the disturbed state 

 of the north. He also presided with great 

 ability on the commission of limacy re- 

 specting the Earl of Portsmouth, which set 

 a few years since. Shortly after this period, 

 on the resignation of Mv. Baron W^ood, he 

 was promoted to the office of one of the Ba- 

 rons of the Exchequer ; a situation wliich he 

 licld till the time of his decease, on the 31st 

 of July. He was " a man of sound discre- 

 tion, great candour, temperate, but fiim, in 

 his judicial capacity, looking upon and ex- 

 poimding the law more in consonance with 

 plain sense and popular construction, than 

 bewildering tlie imagination and embarras- 

 sing the judgment with technical definitions 

 and contradictory precedents. He read the 

 statute with an imprejudiced eye, and ap- 

 plied its provisions with a liberal and learned 

 spirit ; making ample allowance for the in- 

 firmity of human nature, while he executed 

 the duties of his office with a mildness 

 which added grace to the decision of his cha- 

 racter." 



]Mr. Baron Tlidlockhad arrived in Abing- 

 don, as one of the Judges of Assize, of the 

 Oxford circuit, on Saturday, the 25;h of 

 •luly: on the Sunday, he attended divine 

 service at St. Helen's Church, Abingdon, ih 



apparently good health ; but, in the course 

 of tliat night, he experienced a violent at- 

 tack of cholera morbus, and, after a severe 

 illness of five days, he exjjired on the even- 

 ing of Friday, the 31st. His lordship liad 

 been many years married, and his lady sur- 

 vives liim. 



I.ORT} THURLOW. 



The Riglit Hon. Edward HoveU Thur- 

 low. Baron Thurlow, of Thurlow, in tlic 

 county of Suffolk, Register of the Diocese 

 of Lincoln, Patentee of the Bankrupts' 

 Office, Clerk of the Custody of liunatics 

 and Idiots, and Clerk of the Hanaper, in 

 the Court of Chancery, was the son of 

 Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham, who 

 died in 1701, and nephew of the celebrated 

 Lord Chancellor Thurlow, who, on obtain- 

 ing his patent of peerage, had interest suffi- 

 cient to obtain the reversion of his title for 

 the issue male of his brothers. His Lord- 

 ship's mother was Anne, the daughter of 

 A\'illiam Beere, Esq. He was bom on the 

 lOtli of June, \'ihi ; and he succeeded to 

 the title as second Baron, at tlie decease of 

 his uncle, on the 12tli of September, IfOlO". 

 His Lordship married, at the churcli of St. 

 Martin in the Field.s, on the 13th of No- 

 vember, 1813, Jlary Catherine Bolton, an 

 actress of considerable celebrity at Covent 

 Garden Tlieatre, and the eldest daughter 

 of Mr. James Richard Bolton. In conse- 

 quence of the Chancellor's having a family 

 of daughters to provide tor, the fortune to 

 which his Lordship succeeded, with the 

 title, was not great ; but some of the ap- 

 pointment* wliich he enjoyed through the 

 influence of his uncle — that of Patentee for 

 making out the Commission of Bankrupts, 

 in particiilar — were extremely lucrative4 

 Ivovd Thurlow aimed at distinction as a 



poet; and, amongst his publications arc 



Tlie Defence of Poetry, by Sir PJiilip Syd- 

 ney, 1(510 ; — \\'rses on Several Oeca.sions, 

 iai2 ;-_JVJoonlight, a Poem, iyi5;_The 



