1801.) 
four pounds of molaffes or treacle, and one 
allon of water. Heat the whole over 
a fire till the falts are diffolved, and the 
whole made into an uniform liquor. 
Spring-water is preferable to river-water, 
where it can be had, but river-water will 
do. A vacant {pace is to, be left over the 
top layer of fifth, which is to be filled up 
with the molaffes pickle, and the heading 
of the cafk then put on very tight. In 
pickling {prats, as the cafks feldom hold 
more than about ten gallons, a {pace of 
about an inch will be fufficient to leave 
ever the top of the fifh to be filled with 
the pickle. The fifh are to remain in the 
’ cafk at leaft two months, and after that 
time they may be taken out for eating, or 
for fmoaking and drying. Sprats require 
rather more falting and pickling than her- 
rings. ‘The patentee adds, that fine fugar 
would anfwer the purpofe better, but 
would hardly anfwer in point of expence. 
This fweet pickle might be ufed at firft 
to the fith without any farther preparation, 
but it is much fafer to begin with taking 
away the head and entrails, as thefe parts 
are more liable to putrify than any other, 
and might taint the whole. 
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MR. JOSEPH EYRE, of SHEFFIELD, for @ 
METHOD Of IMPRESSING the JAPAN 
upon ORNAMENTED HANDLES of 
KNIVES, &c. 
Tue procefs here mentioned is very 
fimple. The knife-handle, when the pat- 
tern has been imprefled on it, is taken out 
of the prefs (being previoufly marked, fo 
that it may be put in again in the fame fi- 
tuation) and japanned to the requifite 
thicknefs in the ufual method. ‘The prefs 
is then heated to a certain degree, and the 
japanned handle returned into it, by which 
means the varnifh is prefled in, rendered 
firmer, and made capable of bearing a high 
polifh. This method applies to orna- 
mented handles of knives, forks, razors, 
and other cutlery ware, made of wood or 
paper, in imitation of carved horn or 
bone. 
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MRS. MARTHA GIBBON, of KINGSTREET) 
COVENT GARDEN, DRESS MAKER, for 
a NEW INVENTED STAY, for WOMEN 
and OTHERS. . 
Some of the ancient pieces of armour, 
made inthe form of a waiftcoat, with very 
long flaps, and broader both above and 
below than in the middle, will give an idea 
of the form of thefe ftays. They arecom- 
pofed of a front and a back piece, each of 
which is fupported oy ftrips of whalebone, 
nearly paralicl, and the two pieces join to- 
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gether by hooks and eyes, or lacing, or 
any fimilar contrivance, which meet at the 
fide, and will allow of being accommo- 
dated to the fize of the wearer. They are’ 
made fo long, as only,not to be inconve-~ 
nient when fitting down; and they are 
calculated principally for giving fupport 
to the abdomen where this may be thought 
neceflary, and alfo for correcting deformi- 
ties. They may be lined and ftuffed, or 
padded, according to pleafure, 
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MR. JOHN PROSSER, of CHARING CRoss, 
LONDON,SWORD CUTLER, fora NEW 
INVENTED WATER-PROOF PAN aud 
HAMMER, for GUN aud PISTOL LOCKS, 
&c. 
Tue invention here fpecified is inge- 
nious, and (as far as it can .be underftood 
without a reference ta the drawing) the 
following is the principle adopted. In 
common gun-locks it is well known that 
the hammer (or that part on which the. 
flint firikes) is placed direétly over the 
pan, which it covers when the pan is fhut, 
and thus protects it from wind and wet. 
As this however is not always a compleat 
protection, the patentee has contrived ano- 
The hammer is nearly of 
the ufual form, but inftead of the com- 
mon plain fcrew-pin round which it re- 
volves, and which attaches it to the ftock, 
the inventor ufes a very large pin, of fuf- 
ficient dimenfions to allow of its being 
hollowed out and perforated, and in this 
axis of the hammer-he places the pan ta 
contain the priming, and to communicate 
the fire to the chamber of the piece. This 
large pin ferves therefore both to contain 
the pan and to fix the hammer to the 
ftock, by means of afomewhat conical male 
{crew at one extremity, which enters a 
correfponding female {crew in the ftock. 
The hammer is {cooped out at the Jower 
part, in order exaétly to fit the cavity of 
the pan in the above-mentioned pin or 
axis; and thefe two cavities are expofed 
by the falling of the hammer when ftruck 
by the flint. That part of the large pin 
‘which is to the outfide, and when the pin’ 
is {crewed home to the ftock does not 
project at all beyond the eye of the ham- 
mer, is fecured from wet by another fmall 
f{crew, which exactly fits the eye, and thus 
entirely fhuts up the pin. The pin is per 
forated threugh the centre, which perfo- 
ration reaches from the pan which it en- 
ters, to the end of the {crew that enters 
the ftock, and thus the fire from the 
priming is conveyed through the centre of 
the pin into the breech of the picce. To 
prevent the hammer from falling too far 
back 
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