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wheeled plough-carriages and plough-shares.—23d March.— 
6 months. 
To Henry Osborne, of Bordesley, in the parish of Aston in the 
county of Warwick, for a method or principle of producing cy- 
linders of various descriptions. —23d March.—6 months. 
To John Merryweather, of the castle of Lincoln, in the county 
of Lincoln, gentleman, for certain means of propelling boats and 
yessels through the water.—23d March.—6 months. 
To Abraham Rogers, of Sheft, in the parish of Halifax, in the 
ounty of York, coal merchant, for a method of effecting a saving 
in the consumption of coal, or fuel, by an improvement in the 
mode of setting or heating boilers and steam-engines, and other 
bodies of different descriptions ; and also for heating and warm- 
ing stoves, drying houses, manufactories, and other buildings, 
and for burning different descriptions of gasses.—23d March. 
—2 months. 
To Leberecht Stanhauser, of Old Bond-street, merchant, for 
-@ new or improved castor or roller for tables, sofas, bedsteads, 
and other articles. —23d March.—2 months. 
To James Younie, of Theobald’s Road, Red-lion-square, 
ironmonger, for his discovery for the prevention or cure of smoky 
chimneys.—23d March.—4 months. 
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Meteorological Observations made principally at Edinburgh in 
March 1816. 
Sirn,—We have had the great changeability of the weather 
during the greatest part of the year in the south of England, so 
frequently alluded to by meteorologists, that it may be worth 
while to notice, previous to the regular journal of the weather 
which I subjoin, that the inhabitants of this city say they do not 
remember to have had so changeable a season for many years. 
Since my arrival here on the 2éd of February, the atmosphere 
has been constantly changing; clear frost, snow, rain, and the 
heat of 50° of Fahrenheit, all in the space of twenty-four hours. 
I regret that the multiplicity of other employments has prevented 
_ me from keeping a register of the weather, till the 12th instant. 
_ March 12.—Rapidly succeeding but gentle showers with clear 
jutervals, and gale from the westward, with temperate atmo- 
sphere of about 50° at the maximum. 
March \3.—Very clear morning, followed about noon by 
snow showers, and wind in gales. Fine clear moon-light night, 
and gentle stratus near the ground. 
March 14.—A frost, which came on in the night; all the 
ground hard; the sky was obscure with haze, and at the same 
time gentle wind. Showers of snow and rain in the afternoon 
end night, Stackencloud and wanecloud, 
March 
