314 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



the instrument purporting to be a 

 French decree, dated in April 

 1811, did not take those cases out 

 of the general operation of the 

 law as described in the orders of 



council ; and that, consequently, 

 those vessels captured under them 

 before the 20th of May last could 

 not be discharged from their ope- 

 ration. 



PATENTS IN 1812. 



John Flasket and Samuel Brown, 

 for a method of making or manu- 

 facturing of casks and other ves- 

 sels by improved machinery, 



Mr. Edmund Griffith (Bristol) 

 for an improvement in the manu- 

 facture of soap, for the purpose of 

 washing with sea-water, hard- 

 w^ter, and other water. 



Mr. James Cuparn (Leicester) for 

 preventing chimney s from smoking. 



3Ir. Thomas Willes Cooper (Old- 

 street) for an apparatus to be fixed 

 at the naves of wheels and beds of 

 axletrees of carriages, so as to pre- 

 vent accidents from the axletrees 

 breakiuij, &c. 



Mr. Peter Joseph Broum (Hen- 

 rietta-street) for an improved con- 

 gtrqction of buoys for ships or ves- 

 sels, and for mooring chains. 



Mr. Joseph Bagiial (VValsal) for 

 a method of making bridle-bits, 

 snafHes, &c. of iron, steel, or other 

 metal. 



Sir Howard Douglas (High 

 Wycorab) for an improved reflect- 

 ing circle or semi-ciicle. 



Mr. Joseph Bastone (Bridge- 

 water) for improvements applicable 

 to bedsteads and various other 

 things. 



Mr. Thomas William Sturgeon 

 (Howland ^ street) for improved 



Sir. Samuel Bentham (Hanip« 

 stead) for an invention for a secure 

 and economical mode of laying 

 foundations applicable to the pro- 

 jections of wharfs and piers into 

 deep water. 



Mr. William Good (London) fpr 

 an improvement in valves for va- 

 rious purposes. 



3Ir. Ralph Sutton (Birmingham) 

 for an improved self-acting curtain 

 or window-blind rack. 



Mr. John Craigie (Craven-street) 

 for improvements on carriages, by 

 which friction may be saved, la- 

 bour facilitiited, and safety ob- 

 tained. 



Mr. Joseph Baker (Cuckfield, 

 Sussex) for kneading dough by 

 means of machmery. 



Mr. Thomas Pearsall (Wills- 

 bridge, Gloucester) for a method 

 of constructing iron-work for cer- 

 tain parts of buildings. 



Mr. William Fothergill (Green- 

 field, Flintshire) for a method of 

 making copper roUersfor printing. 



Mr. John Miers (Strand, Lon- 

 don) for a method of accelerating 

 evaporation, of destroying the 

 noxious effluvia from spent lees, 

 and of generating ap increased de- 

 gree of heat, without additional 

 fuel. 



Mr. John Hudson (Cbeapside, 



London) 



