Ces ae New Patents lately enrolled. 
studier. After his first attack of the 
gout, his diuner consisted only of milk. 
But at/supper he was a great eatery He 
seldom drauk much, always mINXing water 
with bis wine. fle would often sleep in 
his chair, and awake the next Morning, 
as refreshed as if he had just risen irom 
his bed. At the time of hfe when he 
siudied most, he wouid be whole months 
in his apartmevt, without leaving it: a 
customs probabis y necessary for the com- 
pletion of the work é had in hand, but 
ertainly very injurious to his Bon, Tp 
accordingly subjected him to a disorder 
in hits legs, which he determined to re- 
medyin his own way, for he thought 
slightly of phy sicians, The consequence 
was that in the latter part of life he could 
scarcely waik, and spent much .of his 
time in bed. 
Kie died at Hanover, the 14th of No- 
vember 1716. In his last moments he 
expatiated on the method proposed by 
Furstenbach of transmuting ron I into gold. 
When onthe point of death, he called for 
paper and ink :—he wrote; but attempting 
t> read what he had written, his eves grew 
did, and he expired at the age of seventy. 
PAULET, MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER. 
This nobleman died in 1572, 
very advanced age of 97. He was ser- 
vant to Henry VII. and for thirty years 
[July ! > 
treasurer to Henry VIII. Edward VE. 
Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth. 
Being asked how he had been able to 
stand up for thirty years together, amidst 
the changes and rus of so many. chan- 
celiors and great personages, he answered, 
. ** Ortus sum e salice, non ex querch.” 
LOUIS XEI. KING OF FRANCE. 
This excelient prince was at one periad 
of his reigi flattered with the title of 
“< Great,” -as ney a by the following cus 
rl0Us verses ‘ 
C4. south ira parteut lovant 
Disant, chantant, descriptant, e 
Vive le Roy Loys le Grand! 
This, however, he had the modesty te 
refuse. When he died, his subjects de- 
servediy Siem pe him a more endear- 
ing surname, that of “ Father of his Peo- 
ple.” 
GUARINTI. 
The Pastor Fido, of Guarini, was first 
represented before Philp IL. of Spain 
with great magnificence. This dramatic 
poem gave rise to a ludicrous misrake, 
When it first appeared, Aubert Le Mire, 
Librarian tothe Archduke Albert, gover- 
nor of the Low Countries, misled by the 
title, inserted st in a list which he w as then 
making of religious buoks , conceiving that 
it was sonie theological treatise upon the 
duties of a pastor, or parish priest. 
NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
See 
MIR. JOHN Lams's (1 spe, for a néw 
polit of distilling fresh Water from 
Sea-Waier on Paced Ship. Aah 
N examining the speciications of new 
qT patents, we are frequently at a loss 
tu know in what the novelty consists. 
This difiiculty we felt in reading the spe 
cuication before us; the methuc d of Ee 
ing fresh water at sea, by distiilation, has 
long | been known, nor has it been unu- 
sual to make the operations of ccokmg 
subservient to this purpose, which is the 
principl e of Mr. Lamb’sinvention., We 
find, i howerer, that what he lays an ex- 
clusive claim to, is the mode of construct- 
ine the fire-place so as to generate, during 
the time of cooking, the greatest quantity 
of steam, with the least expense of fuel. 
bie this view, se fire-place is made 
th dampers, and so separated, that a 
ih: onky, or the whole, may be as at 
once. - Vo the head of the Gale 's is fixed 
a still, which is connected with worm, re- 
fiigeratory, &c. By this yucans a large 
quantity of fresh water is daily collected, 
without any additional expence; and 
it 1s said that less fuel is used than in 
common cases, where no distillation is 
carried on, 
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MR. RICHARD FRIEND'S (SOUTHWARK), for 
Improvements in the Construction and 
working Gun and Carronade Car-= 
riages, for Sea or Garrison Service. 
The carriage is so constructed, that 
the bed or bottom of it, when the. gun is 
fired, shall shde back upon a traversing 
platiorm, similar to the slide of a com- 
mop carronade, with the addition of twa 
von plates tor the wheels of the carriage:. 
to run upon, and is fixed to the ship’s side 
in the same manner asthe slide of acome 
mon carropade. For garrison service 
the slide is made nearly similar to that 
for sea-service ; it rests upon four wheels, 
and may be traversed so as to point the » 
gun in any direction, 
Afver the gun is fred, and the carriage. 
als, 
