a disavowal on the part of Lord Berkeley, and even of Lady Berkeley, of being married previously to that time. The testimony, of all the most precise and important, was that of the Marquis of Buckingham, given, as he asserted, with great pain to himself, and only in obedience to the orders of the House. He had long lived in confidential habits with Lord Berkeley, and he deposed, that his lordship had at various times communicated to him the circumstance of his living with a person, the mother of children by him, to whom he was not married. Lord Berkeley had often pressed him to accept the office of guardian to these children in case of his death, which he had uniformly declined, assigning their illegitimacy as a reason. Lord Berkeley mentioned as a matter that dwelt much on his mind, that from the circumstances of his family, the castle and honour of Berkeley would probably after his death be severed from the title, and not go to his brother, Admiral Berkeley; and he at length suggested to the marquis a plan for preventing this separation, which was, that a daughter of his, one of these illegitimate children (then a young child) should marry the son of the Admiral, in which case he would settle the castle and

The Marquis further deposed to his belief that the words in the register of marriage in 1785 an nexed to the mark of Richard Barns, and also the signature Augustus Thomas Hupsman, were written by Lord Berkeley; and his evidence, in confirmation of so many others, decided the House of Lords to pronounce nem. dis. the judgment, "That the claimant, William Fitzharding Berkeley, had not made good his claim to the titles, &c. of Earl of Berkeley." This determination of consequence sets aside the pretended marriage in 1785, and illegitimates the children born before 1796.

Several other reports of various and important law-cases, will be found briefly recorded in the Chronicle.

Mr. William Clerk's (Edinburgh) for a newly constructed grate for preventing smoke, and regulating heat.

Mr. David Meade Randolph's (Golden-square) for a method of manufacturing all kinds of boots, shoes, &c. by means of a substi

tate for thread made of hemp, flax, or other yarns.

Mr. John Kent's (Southampton) for a new method of moving all kinds of goods or materials to high buildings, or from deep places.

Mr. Winsor's (Pall Mall) for improvement upon his former oven-stove, for carbonizing all kinds of raw fuel, and for extracting the oil, acid, tar, gas, &c.

Mr. Thomas Mead's (Yorkshire) for methods of making circular or rotative steam-engines, upon an entire new principle.

Mr. Edward Shorter's (Wapping) for an apparatus for working pumps.

Mr. Bryan Donkin's (Bermondsey) for a pen of new construction.

Mr. David Matthew's (Rotherhithe) for an improved method of building locks, and for opening and shutting the same.

Mr. John White's (Westminster) for the discovery of a certain substance which is capable of being converted into statues, artificial stone, melting-pots, bricks, tiles, and every description of pottery.

Mr. Richard Wilson's (Lambeth) for sundry apparatus or machinery for the manufacture of felt or stuff hats.

Mr. Bundy's (Camden Town) for a new method of heading pins. Mr. James Frost and Son's (Sutton street, Clerkenwell) for an improvement on cocks, or an improved lock-cock.

Mr. Richard Woodman's (Hammersmith) for a method of manufacturing all kinds of boots, shoes, and other articles.

Mr. Henry Stubbs's (Piccadilly) for a new invented grand imperial

Aulæum, from three to twenty feet wide, without seam, and to any length or colour, for decorating rooms, &c.

Mr. John Is. Hawkins's (Great Titchfield-street) for a certain instrument applicable in mechanics as a balance or equipoise.

Mr. Thomas Pott's (Hackney) for a new process of freeing tarred rope from tar, and of rendering it of use to the manufacturer.

Mr. Johann George Deyerlein's (Long-acre) for a machine, new principle or method, of making bricks and tiles, and other kinds of pottery.

Mr. Peter Stuart's (Fleetstreet) for a new method of engraving and printing maps, &c.

Mr. John Lindsay's (Grovehouse, Middlesex) for a boat and various apparatus, whereby heavy burdens can be conveyed in shallow water.

Mr. Winsor's (Pall Mall) for a fixed telegraphic light-house, &c. for signals and intelligence, to serve by night and by day.

Mr. John Deakin's (St. John'sstreet, Middlesex) for improvements in the kitchen range.

Mr. John Bradley's (Old Swinford, Staffordshire) for a new method of making gun skelps.

Sir Isaac Coffin's for a new invention of a perpetual oven for baking bread.

Mr. Ralph Wedgewood's (Oxford-street) for a new character forlanguage, numbers, and music, and the method of applying the

same.

Mr. William Doughty's (Birmingham) for a method of combining wheels for gaining mechanical powers.

Mr. George Lowe's (Cheapside) for British shirting cloth.

Mr. Egerton Smith's (Liverpool) for a binnacle and compass. Mr.James Bell's (Whitechapel) for improvements in refining sugar, and in forming sugar-houses of a certain description.

Mr. John Gregory's (Islington) for a method of tunning and cleansing ales and beers into casks.

Mr. Arthur Woolf's (Lambeth) for improvements in the construction and working of steam-engines calculated to lessen the consumption of fuel.

Mr. Peter Durand's (Hoxtonsquare) for a method of preserving animal and vegetable food, &c. a long time from perishing.

Mr. John Cragg's (Liverpool) for improvements in the casting of iron roofs for houses &c.

Mr. William Muller's (London) for improvements in the construction of pumps.

Mrs. Sarah Guppy's (Bristol) for a mode of erecting and constructing bridges, and rail roads, without arches or starlings, by which the danger of being washed away by floods is avoided.

Mr. John Stancliffe's (Tooke's court) for certain improvements in apparatus for the combination and condensation of gasses and vapours applicable to processes of distillation.

Mr. Richard Jackson's (Southwark) for an improved method of making the shanks of anchors and other large bodies of wrought iron. Mr. Samuel Hill's (Serle-street) for a more effectual method of joining stone pipes.

Mr. David Loeschman's (Newman-street) for improvements in the musical scales of keyed instruments with fixed tones.

Mr. Joseph Dyer's (Grays'-inn) for improvements in the construction and method of using plates and presses for copper-plate printing.

Mr. Hall's (Walthamstow) for a method of manufacturing from twigs or branches of broom, mallows, rushes, and other plants of like species, to serve instead of flax or hemp.

Mr. Thomas Wade's (Nelson place, Surrey) for a method of imitating lapis lazuli, porphyry, jasper, &c.

Mr. John Statter's (Birmingham and Holborn) for a steamkitchen and roaster.

Mr. Walter Rochfort's (Bishopsgate-street) for an improved method of preparing coffee by compression.

Mr. John Turmeau and Charles Seward's (Cheapside) for a new lamp, called the Liverpool Lamp.

Mr. Joseph Dyer's (London) for a machine for cutting and removing all the kinds of furs used in hat-making from skins, and for cutting the skins into strips or small pieces.

Mr. John Frazer's (Sloanestreet) for a discovery of certain vegetables, and a way of preparing them to be manufactured into hats, bonnets, chair-bottoms, baskets, &c.

Mr. William Bundy's (Camden-town) for an improvement on stringed instruments.