igo Lisl of Patents for New Inventions. 



conformations of the mouth. The lecturer also proposes to 

 receive into his house a limited number of pupils afflicted 

 with impediments, and to give private instructions in all the 

 various branches of elocution. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



A grant unto Patrick Whytock, of Liverpool, in the 

 county palatine of Lancaster, merchant; for his invented 

 improvements in the manufacture of piece goods, com- 

 posed of cotton, of flax, or of hemp, or of any mixture 

 or mixtures of two or more of these articles, by which such 

 goods will resist the rotting action of wet or moisture much 

 better than similar fabrics manufactured by the methods iu 

 common use. Dated March 8. 



To JohnCurr, of Sheffield-Park, in the parish of Sheffield, 

 in the county of York, gentleman ; for his invented method, 

 different from any that has hitherto been invented or known, 

 of spinning hemp for the making of ropes or cordage. 

 Dated as above. 



To Richard Willcox, of the parish of St. Mary Lambeth, 

 in the county of Surrey, mechanist ; for his invented cer- 

 tain machinery for glazing and graining leather, now 

 usually performed by hand. Dated as above. 



To Edward Dampier, of Primrose-street, in the city of 

 London, manufacturer; for his invented and brought to 

 perfection certain machinery for rasping, grating, or re- 

 ducing into sniall parts or powder, such woods, drugs, and 

 other substances, for the use of dyers and others, as are not 

 easily to be pulverized by mere percussion ; and also in re- 

 gard that he is connected in trade with Edward Jackson and 

 Thomas Shackleton, of Primrose-street aforesaid. Dated 

 March 12. 



To Michael Logan, of Paradise-street, in the parish of 

 Rotherbithe, in the county of Surrey, engineer; for his 

 invented and constructed entire new system of marine, fort, 

 and field artillery. Dated March 13. 



To Charles Robert West, of Plough-court, Felter-ianey in 

 the city of London, optician, and William Bruce, of King's- 

 Head-court, Shoe-lane, in the city of London aforesaid, 

 optical turuer ; for :heir invented certain impruvcmeots in 



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