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for shanks, and for forming the same 
into shanks for nails. Dated No- 
vember 8. 
Richard Younger, of Pittman’s- 
buildings, Old-street, in the county 
of Middlesex, gent. ; for an improved 
method of extracting worts from 
malt, barley, and other grains and 
substances. Dated November 12. 
William Freemantle, of Bunhill- 
row, in the parish of St. Luke, Old- 
street, in the county of Middlesex, 
watchmaker ; for improvements in 
the construction of steam engines. 
Dated November 17. 
James Bevans, of Castle-street, 
City-road, in the county of Mid- 
dlesex, carpenter, being one of the 
society of the people called Quakers ; 
for methods of applying machinery 
for the purposes of more expeditious- 
ly striking or sticking mouldings, 
and for rabbetting, ploughing, or 
grooving, fluting, and excavating 
wood, in every manner, now usually 
performed by any kind of plane. 
Dated November 19. 
George Penton, of New-street- 
square, in the city of London, brass- 
founder; for an improvement on 
lamps, commonly called Argand’s 
lamps. Dated November 19. 
James Sturman Searles, of Little 
Alie-street, Goodman’s-ficlds, in the 
parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel, 
-in the county of Middlesex, gun- 
maker, for an improvement or im- 
provements to be applied to any 
kind of fire-arms or defensive in- 
struments. Dated December 3. 
Charles Wyatt, of New Bridge- 
street, in the city of London, mer- 
chant; for a new-invented process 
of purifying ardent spirits. Dated 
December 21. 
Robert Cross, of Quakers Brook 
within Houghton, in the county of 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
Lancaster, tanner, and Thomas 
Southworth, of Houghton, afore- 
said cotton-manufa¢turer ; for their 
new-invented mode of heating such 
pans, vats, cisterns, and other ves- 
sels, as are required to be heated by 
fire, and used for working steam- 
engines, and in the businesses of ca- 
lico-printer, dyer, brewer, paper- 
maker, bleacher, salt-maker, tan- 
ner, and other such like trades ; 
by which invention much expence 
will be saved, not only in the fuel 
to be used in the heating of such 
vessels, but also in constructing the 
vessels themselves. Dated Decem- 
ber 31. 
Particulars relative to the Construc- 
tion of, and Benefits received from, 
sundry Life Boats, built by Mr. 
Henry Greathead, or under his 
Direction, in and since the Year 
1789. 
Account of the South Shields Life Bout. 
ROM the declaration of sir 
Cuthbert Heron, bart. of South 
Shields, it appears, that when the 
Adventure was wrecked in 1789, 
on the: [ferd Sands, he offered a re- 
ward for any seaman to go off to 
save the men’s lives, which was re- 
fused ; and that the greatest part of 
the crew of the Adventure perished. 
within 300 yards of the shore, and 
in sight of a multitude of speétators. 
The gentlemen of South Shields im- 
mediately met and offered a reward 
to any person who would give in a 
plan of a boat, which should be ap- 
proved, for the preservation of men’s 
lives. Mr. Greathead gave in a 
plan, which met with approbation : 
a committce was formed, and a sub- 
scription raised for the building of 
a boat 
