74 List of Patents for new Inventions. 
To James Brumsall, of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, 
tailor, for certain improvements in different stages of rope-making, 
and in machinery adapted for such improvements.—16th Nov. 
—6 months. 
To Edward Charles Howard, of Westbourn Green, in the 
county of Middlesex, Esq. for certain improvements in the pro- 
cess of preparing and refining sugars — 20th Nov.—6 months. 
To Frederick Cherry, of Croydon, in the county of Surry, 
veterinary surgeon in the army, for certain improvements in the 
construction of various articles of an officer’s field equipage.— 
23d Nov.—2 months. 
To Jeremiah Donovan, of Craven Street, Strand, in the county 
of Middlesex, Esq. and John Church, of Chelsea, in the same 
county, soap-boiler, for their discovered improvement of saponaeous 
compounds for deterging in sea water, in hard water, and in soft 
water—23d Nov.—6 months. 
To Richard Mackenzie Bacon, of the city of Norwich, printer, 
and Bryan Donkin, of Fort Place, Bermondsey , in the county of 
Surry, engineer, for their improvements in the implements or 
apparatus employed in printing, whether irom types, from blocks, 
Gr from plates.—23d Nov.—6 months. 
To James Bodmer, of Stoke Newington, in the county of 
Middlesex, gentleman, for his method of loading fire-arms, can- 
non, and all ordnance, except mortars, at the breech, with a 
rifle or plain bore; and also a touch-hole for fire-arms and ord- 
hance, and also a moveable sight fcr fire-arms and ordnance. 
To Edward Biggs, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, 
brass-founder, for his method of working stamps by a steam en- 
gine, water, or horse power.—23d Nov.—2 months. 
To John ‘Duncombe, of Woolwich, in the county of Kent, civil 
engineer, for his improyement to mathematical and astronomical 
instruments in order to render them more portable, accurate, 
easy, expeditious and certain in their application to topographical 
and nautical surveying, the mensuration of terrestrial and celestial 
angles, and the divete distauces of inaccessible objects, at one 
station, by land or sea, without the usual modes of calculation, by 
a new index which ascertains the measured quantity of an angle 
to any proposed rational degree of precision, by rendering the 
division of the minute parts hitherto imperceptible to the senses, 
truly conspicuous and distinctly legible by the common naked 
eye ; also, by an attached new parallel movement, the natural sine 
and co-sine of such angles are precisely obtained to any eligible 
adius, without tabular or other reference; and by a detached 
similar movement, the direct distance of an inaccessible object is 
accurately sasasubed at one station, without trigonometrical or 
other calentation; and a new improved compass, whose index 
points 
