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List of Patents. 



[Dec. 



sen. and j un. of Biaintrce, Fsscx, fur his engine 

 for raising cold and hot uater. 



Patents, which hnvitig been granted in the 

 tiionth of December 1815, e.rpire in the pre- 

 sent month of December 1829. 



5. Gcorgo Ynung, London, /or his iinproved 

 method of making canvas- 



— Jean Frederic, Marquis de Cliabamis, for 

 his method of conducting the air andregnlating 

 the temperature in houses and other buildings, 

 and warming and cooling either air or liquids 

 in a more e.rpediti'nis and less e.rpensife man- 

 ner than hath hitherto been done in this king- 

 dom. 



— Jamos Lee, Old Fnrd, Sliddlefiex, /or his im- 

 provements in the method before invented by 

 him of preparing hemp and flax, and by which 

 also olhervsgetablcsubstances may be rendered 

 applicable to many of the purposes for lehich 

 hemp and flax are used. 



5. Cliristopher Dihl, London, /or his improve- 

 ments in the method or apparatus for distilli- 

 tion. 



— John Marrl, London, for his machine for 

 the improvement of all musical performances, 

 which he denominates a mtteonotne. 



9. Samuel Clegg,Westminster,/or/»iszm/?roperf 

 gas apparatus. 



19. Robert Tinder, Liverpool, /or his improved 

 method of propelling ships, bouts, and other 

 vessels. 



— Robert Dickinson, London, /or /«'* imyrove- 

 ment in the hoops and hoopiing of barrels 



', 22, William Plenty, Nenbury, Berks, /or his 

 plough on a new principle ly which land may 

 be pared and ploughed. 



— William Adamson, London, for his disco- 

 vered principle by which an horizontal wheel 

 may be^o moved above Us axis, by water, as to 

 give it a power considerably greater than can 

 be obtained by the application of water to a 

 wheel in any other position. 



BIOGRAPHICAL ME3IOIRS OP EMINENT PERSONS. 



SIR DAVID BAIRD, BART. 



General Sir David Baird, Bart., of 

 Yardley-Bury, in the county of Herts, of 

 Femton, in the county of Perth, G.C'.B. 

 and K.C., was tlie descendant of a family 

 of remote antiquity in North Britain, of 

 which the following tradition is related : — 

 "As King William, the Lion, was hunt- 

 ing in one of the south-west counties, he 

 happened to wander from his attendants ; 

 he was alarmed by the approach of a wild 

 boar ; and, calling out for assistance, a 

 gentleman of the name of Baird, who had 

 followed the king, came up, and had the 

 good fortune to kill the object of his royal 

 master's alarm. For this signal service, the 

 king considerably augmented his lands, and 

 assigned him, for his coat of arms, a boar 

 passant, and, for his motto, Dominns fecit, 

 which arms are to be seen upon an ancient 

 monument of the Bairds of Auchmedden, 

 in the churchyard of Banff. 



The ancestor of Sir David Baird, was 

 George Baird, of Auchmedden, in tlie 

 county of Aberdeen, chief of the clan. He 

 was living in 1568. From hmi, lijieaUy 

 descended, Sir John Baird, Brrt., of New- 

 bytli, in the county of Haddington ; on 

 whose death, without issue, in 1746, the 

 estates descended to his cousin, AViUiam 

 Baird, Esq., the father of the subject of this 

 notice. This gentleman was the eldest son 

 of AViUiam Baird, Esq., one of the baillies 

 of Edinburgh, second son of Sir Robert 

 Baird, Knt. of Saughfon Hall. He mar- 

 ried Alicia, fourth daughter of John- 

 stone, Esq., of Hiltown, in the county of 

 Berwick. The issue of this marriage was 

 six sons and eiglit daughters ; of which 

 sons, Sir David was the fifth, and Robert, 

 his successor in the title, the second. 



This veteran and gallant officer com- 

 menced his military career so far back as 



the year 1 772, in the 2d regiment of Foot ; 

 in 1779, he went to Indi.-;, as captain of the 

 73d ; and, in 1781, after a heroic and des- 

 perate resistance against an overwhelming 

 force, under Tippoo Saib, in the course of 

 which lie received four wounds, he was 

 made prisoner. Captain Baird remained 

 in the power of Hyder Ally three years and 

 a half, during wiiicli he was subjected to 

 great cruelties and privations. After his 

 release he continued to serve. In 1787, 

 he was made major of the 71st; and, in 

 1790, after his return to England, lie ob- 

 t.iined the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 

 same regiment. He returned to India in 

 17''1 ; served there, with great distinction, 

 under the IMarquess Cornwallis ; and, 

 amongst other exploits, he successfully 

 headed a storming party at the taking of 

 Seringapatam. 



In 1797, he arrived at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, where he was appointed Brigadier- 

 General, and placed on that staff in com- 

 mand of a brigade. He returned to India, 

 as IMajor-General, in 1798 ; and, after still 

 further distinguishing himself, he came to 

 England, and was placed on the staff. 



In 1804, he was appointed Lieutenant- 

 General, and entrusted with the command 

 of an expedition against the Cape of Good 

 Hojie, where he landed, and compelled the 

 Dutch to surrender the colony. He also 

 served with the troops embarked for Egypt, 

 by way of the Red Sea; he, with great 

 difficulty, succeeded in crossing the Desert ; 

 and he assisted Lord Hutcninson in the 

 conquest which ensued. For this service 

 he was rewarded by his Majesty with the 

 Order of the Bath, and by the Grand 

 Seignior with the Order of the Crescent. 



In I8O7, Sir David Baird returned to 

 England, and removed from the Colonelcy 

 of the 54th, which he then had, to the Colo- 



