92 Deaths.—A List of Paients for New Inventions. 
colour ; which proves that no place of the copper is unco-_ 
vered. M. Humboldt has examined this improvement, 
and has declared himself perfeetly satisfied as to its superio~ 
rity in point of wholesomeness and fineness of tone. 
DEATHS. 
On the 23d of June, 1806, died at Broissy, near Ver- 
sailles, in the 83d year of his age, Mathurin Jacques Bris- 
son, member of the French national institute, and author 
of several useful elementary books in chemistry and natural 
philosophy. 
On the 10th September, at Dresden, in the 75th year of 
his age, John Christopher Adelung, author of the celebrated 
dictionary of the German iurenage: 
LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 
To Henry Pratt, of Birmingham, in the county of War- 
“wick, ‘steel toy-maker; for a new toast-stand, or an im- 
provement on the article called cats or dogs, upon which 
things are placed before a fire. Dated October 2. 
_ To Robert Salmon, of Woburn, in the county of Bedford, 
surveyor; for a mathematic-principled safe and easy truss 
for the relief and cure of ruptures. Dated October 2 
To William Cooke, of Chute House, in the county of 
Wilts, gent. ; for certain improvements in the construction 
of waggons, aud other carriages which have more. than two 
wheels. Dated October 2. 
To Ralph Wedgwood, of Charles-street, Hampstead- 
road, in the county of Middlesex, gent. ; for an apparatus 
for producing duplicates of writings. Dated October 7. 
To Ralph Sutton, of Macclesfield, in the county of Ches- 
ter, brazier and tin-plate worker ; for certain ‘improvements 
in an apparatus for cooking either by steam or water. 
Dated October 7. : 
To William Sampson, of Liverpool, in the county of 
Lancaster, millwright ; for an invention to be acted by the 
impulse of wind, in orderto work mills, pumps, ana other 
machinery, suitable to its application. Dated October 7. 
To Archibald Jones and James Jones, of Mile End, in the 
county of Middlesex, printers; for a method of discharging 
colours fram shawls, and other dyed silks, and silk and 
worsted 
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