or of hemp and flax mixed, more durable than any such articles now manufactured.

William Barley, and Robert Hopwood Furness, for a method of obtaining saccharine matter from wheat, barley, rye, oats, bear, or big.

Joseph Gregson, for a new method of constructing chimneys, and of supplying fires with fuel.

Benjamin Smythe, for a new method of propelling vessels, boats, barges, and rafts of all kinds; and also other machinery, as millwheels, and other revolving pow

ers.

William Day, for various improvements in or on trunks, and on the application of machinery, by means of which they will contract or expand at pleasure.

William Snowden, for an appa ratus to be applied to carriages to prevent them from being overturned.

Simon Hosking, for a steamengine upon a new construction for drawing water from mines, for working different kinds of machinery, and for other purposes.

George Washington Dickinson, for a method for preventing leakage from vessels containing liquids, and for preventing the admission of moisture into vessels or packages intended to be kept dry within.

Joseph Heathcoat, for improvements upon machinery for making that kind of lace known by the names of bobbin net, or Buckingham lace net.

and other keyed musical instru

ments.

Robert Stirling, for diminishing the consumption of fuel; and in particular an engine capable of being applied to the moving machinery, on a principle quite new. Robert Raines Baines, for a perpetual log, or sea ambulator. William Russell, for an improvément upon cocks and vents for general purposes.

John Burker, for an improvement in the means of acting upon machinery.

Robert Ford, for a medicine for the cure of coughs, colds, asthmas, and consumptions.

Walter Hall, for a method of making soft lead out of hard or slag lead.

James Kewley, for improvements in and on thermometers.

Richard Wright, for improvements in the construction and propelling ships and other vessels.

William Dean, for machinery for waxing calico, or any other cloth previous to the process of glazing.

Samuel Brown, and Philip Thomas, manufacturers of iron cables, for a chain manufactured in a peculiar way by a new process, and certain apparatus in performing the same.

William Manton, for an improvement in the application of springs to wheel carriages.

John Raffield, for certain improvements on, and additions to, his former patent for an apparatus to be attached to fire-stoves, &c.

Daniel Wilson, for improvements

John Day, for improvements in the construction of piano-fortes

Robert Dickinson, for a method of preparing or paving streets or

roads

roads for horses and carriages so as to render them more durable. Joseph de Cavaillon, for improvements in the preparing, clarifying, and refining of sugar, and other vegetable, animal, and mineral substances.

William Wall, for a horizontal escapement for watches. George Montague Higginson, for improvements in locks.

Isaac Robert Mott, for a new instrument called the Sostimente Piano-forte.

William Bundy, for machinery for breaking and preparing flax and hemp.

James Atkinson, for improvements on lustres, chandeliers, lanthorns, lamps, &c. and in the manner of conveying the gas to the same.

William Clarke, for a contrivance to be called a safeguard to locks, by which they may defy the attempts of plunderers.

Robert Hardy, for improvements in the manufacturing of cast-iron bushes, or pipe boxes, for all kinds of carriage wheels.

Richard Litherland, for improvements in the escapement of watches.

Richard Holden, for machines for producing rotatory and pendulous motions in a new manner. Daniel Wilson, for gas light apparatus, processes, and philosophical instruments.

William Henry Osborn, for a principle of producing cylinders of various descriptions.

Urbanus Sartoris, for improvements in the construction and use of fire-arms.

Ludwig Granholm, for means of pressing vegetable and animal products.

William Raybould, for an im

provement applicable to fire-stoves, grates, and ranges.

William Panter, for an improvement to facilitate rotatory motion, and lessen or improve friction in wheel carriages and machinery of various descriptions.

John Winter, for a method of joining and combining horn and tortoise-shell together.

David Wheeler, for a method of drying and preparing malt.

Edward Nicholas, for a plough to cover wheat and other grain with mould when sown.

Antonio Joaquin Friere Marroce, for a method of manufacturing an improved machine for calculating the longitude at sea.

William Collins, for an improvement in the composition of a metal for the manufacturing into sheets or plates, and the application of it for the preservation of ships; and for the improvement of chainpumps.

Henry Wilms, for an artificial leg, arm, or hand, on an improved construction.

John Gerard Colbert. for im provements in the method of making screws of iron, brass, steel, or other metals, for the use of all kinds of wood-work.

John Walker, for an improved method of separating molasses or treacle out of muscovado, brown, or new sugar.

Richard Williams, the elder, for improvements in the manufacturing of cards for the dressing of woollen cloths.

Archibald Thomson, for a machine for cutting corks.

William Owen, for a portable table, or box mangle for smoothing linen, &c.

William Bound, and William
Stone,

Stone, for a method of applying certain apparatus for converting the fuel for heating the retorts of gas-lights into coak or charcoal.

Robert Salmon, for an apparatus for the more useful, pleasant, and economic use of candles.

Benjamin Cook, for an improved method of making rollers and cylinders, both solid and hollow.

Leger Didot, for certain improvements upon the machines already in use for making wove and laid paper in continued length.

A GENERAL

A GENERAL BILL of all the CHRISTENINGS and BURIALS within the BILLS of MORTALITY, LONDON,

from December 10, 1816, to December 10, 1817.
Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls 1044-Buried 1085.
Christened in the 17 parishes without the walls 5429-Buried 3939.
Christened in the 23 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surry 12716-Buried 10108.

Christened in the 10 parishes in the City and Liberties of Westminster 4940-Buried 4836.

DISEASES AND CASUALTIES.

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PRICE OF STOCKS FOR EACH MONTH IN 1817.-Lowest and Highest.