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"were walking in the streets at that 66 juncture found themselves cover❝ed with these insects, which settled "also on the hedges and gardens, "blackening all the vegetables where "they alighted. My annuals were "discoloured with them, and the "stalks of a bed of onions were "quite coated over for six days "after. These armies were then 66 no doubt in a state of emigration,

"and shifting their quarters; and "might have come, as far as we "know, from the great hop-plan"tations of Kent or Sussex, the "wind being all that day in the eas"terly quarter. They were ob "served at the same time in great "clouds about Farnham, and all along the vale from Farnham to "Alton."

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method of keeping in tune certain musical instruments called pianofortes, grand piano-fortes, harpsichords, spinnets, and other stringed instruments. Dated January 23.

John Robert Lucas, of Charltonhouse, in the county of Somerset, esquire; for an improvement in the art or method of making, spreading, or flattening sheet glass, or any other spread glass requiring a polished surface. Dated January 23.

John Jones, of the city of Chester, chemist, for a liquor for print. ing and dying of cotton, linen, and woollen. Dated January, 23.

Frederick Mollerston, of Hackney-wick, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; for a chemical composition, and method of applying the same, in the preparation of hides, skins, and leather; silks, taffetas, and linen, and to all articles already made of skins and leather, thereby colouring and giving a beautiful gloss to the same, rendering them water-proof and impenetrable to hot or corroding liquids, and at the same time preserving them from decay, and keeping them soft and plįable. Dated January 23.

Simeon Thompson, of Redcrosswharf, upper Thames-street, in the city of London, coal merchant; for

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a bushel or bushels, and other measures, upon a new construction, for measuring coals, grain, seed, and other dry measurable commodities. Dated January 23.

James Barrett, of Saffron Walden, in the county of Essex, smith and iron-monger; for an improvement in the construction of maltkilns, so as to prevent damage from fire, and to save fuel in the drying of malt. Dated January 29.

John Heppenstall, of Doncaster, in the county of York, machinemaker and engineer; for improvements in slivering and preparing hemp, flax, and substitutes for hemp and flax, previous to the operation of spinning. Dated February 5.

William Hackwood the younger, of Shelton, in the county of Stafford, potter; for a method of making windows and lights upon new principles. Dated February 5,

John Ball, of the city of Norwich, engineer; for a machine for threshing corn and pulse. Dated February 5.

James Fullarton, surgeon in the navy; for a diving machine, or apparatus, upon an improved construction, applicable to various useful purposes. Dated February 5.

Christopher Perkins, of Stockton, in the county of Durham, builder; for a machine for threshing corn and pulse. Dated February 5.

James Ryan of Doonane, in the Queen's county, Ireland, engineer to the undertakers of the grand canal; for sundry tools, implements, or apparatus for boreing the earth for coal, and all kinds of minerals and subterraneous substances, by which the different strata may be cut out in a cheap and expeditious manner, in cores or cylinders, from one inch to twenty inches and up

wards in length, and from two inches to twenty inches and upwards in diameter, so as to be taken up en. tire at any depth that has hitherto been bored; by which, not only the quality of such minerals and substances, but also the declination or dip of the strata can be ascer. tained beyond a possibility of mistake; and which tools, implements, or apparatus are also advantageously applicable to the purpose of sinking for wells, and giving vent to subterraneous water in bogs, and draining mines and grounds, and ventilating pits and other beneficial purposes. Dated February 12.

Charles Coe, of the parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel, in the county of Middlesex, baker; for a flue upon an improved construction, applicable to the heating of ovens, or any other thing that requires an uni form heat. Dated February 12.

William Martin, of Houghton Pans, in the county of Northumberland, rope-maker; for a mode of fastening shoes to the feet of men, women, and children. Dated Fe bruary 19.

George Dodd, of Great Ormond, street, in the county of Middlesex, engineer; for improvements on the royal York gun-lock, other gun. locks, and the locks of all descrip tion of fire arms. Dated February 28.

John Robert Irving, of the city of Edinburgh, advocate, and Isabell Lovi, of the city of Edinburgh aforesaid, worker in glass; for an improved apparatus for determining the specific gravity of fluid bodies, and the relation that their weight bears to a given measure. Dated March 9.

John Baptiste Denire, of Weststreet, Somers-town, in the county

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of Middlesex, chemist; for a mode of procuring a greater quantity of resinous, bituminous, and oily substances, from various articles. Dated March 9.

Archibald Blair, of Bayford, in the county of Herts, esquire; for a method of retaining cotton and other elastic substances when pressed by means of wrappers. Dated March 9. William Bell, of the town of Derby, engineer; for an improved method of manufacturing blanks or moulds for knife, razor, and scissar blades, and various other edged tools, and of forks, files, and nails. Dated March 9.

Thomas Jones, of Bilstone, in the county of Stafford, japanner; for compositions for the purpose of making trays, waiters, and various other articles, and new modes or methods of manufacturing the same, that is to say, by presses and stamps. Dated March 23.

Richard Brandon, the elder, of Lucas-street, in the parish of St. Mary Rotherhithe, in the county of Surrey; for a composition from British herbs and plants, for the cure of the evil, scrophula, scurvy, leprosy, gout, and rheumatism, and which he has denominated and called, Brandon's British Constitutional Pills, and Liquid and Botanic Ointment, and which, in upwards of 3000 cases, has been attended with the most unparalleled success in the course of the last nine months. Dated March 26.

Jonathan Hornblower, of the borough of Penryn, in the county of Cornwall, engineer; for a steam. wheel, or engine, for raising water, and for other useful purposes, in arts and manufactures, by means of steam. Dated March 26.

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Stuart Arnold, of Wakefield, in the county of York, gentleman; for a chimney safe-guard, for the preservation of houses and buildings from fire, robbery, and foul air. Dated March 26.

George Alexander Bond, of Hatton Garden, in the parish of St. Andrew Holborn, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; for certain improvements in the construction of clocks and other time pieces, whereby they are rendered of much greater utility and service, both by sea and land, than any heretofore made use of. Dated March 26.

Job Rider, of Belfast, in the county of Antrim, in that part of the united kingdom called Ireland, clock and watch-maker; for certain ithprovements on the steam-engine. Dated March 26.

Willis Earle, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, merchant; for improvements in the mode of constructing and working steam-engines, Dated March 26.

Sir George Wright, of Ray-lodge, in the county of Essex, baronet; for an instrument or machine for cutting out of solid stone, wood, or other materials, pillars and tubes, either cylindrical or conical, with great saving of labour and materials. Dated March 30.

Richard Jubb, of Bridge-row, in the parish of St. George, Hanoversquare, in the county of Middlesex, whitesmith; for improvements in making and tuning the musical instrument called the pedal harp; by which the half-quarter note is produced thereon with peculiar sweet. ness and harmony; and the farther addition of an harmonic stop made thereto; and also certain improve. ments in tuning the violin, and other 3 I

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Thomas Rowntree, of the parish of Christ-church, in the county of Surrey, engine maker; for an axletree and box for carriages on an improved plan. Dated April 25.

Charles Hobson, of Sheffield, in the county of York, plater, and Charles Sylvester, of the same place, chemist; for a method of manufacturing the metal called zinc into wire, and into vessels and utensils for culinary and other purposes. Dated April 29.

John Slater, of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, gentleman; for certain improvements upon sawing-mills, or machines for sawing all kinds of timber. Dated May 2.

Mark Isambard Brunel, of Portsea, in the county of Hants, gentle man; for saws and machinery, upon an improved construction, for sawing timber in an easy and expeditious manner. Dated May 7.

John Edwards, of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, in the county of Middlesex, currier and harness maker; for certain improvements on bridles. Dated May 7.

Obadiah Elliott, of the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, coach-maker; for certain improvements in the construcbon of coaches, chariots, barouches,

landaus, and various other four. wheel carriages. Dated May 11.

John Edwards, of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, in the county of Middlesex, currier and har ness maker; for a machine or ap paratus upon an improved construc. tion, for the purpose of preventing persons being drowned, which he denominates The Life Buoy. Dated May 11.

William Horrocks, of Stockport, in the county of Chester, cottonmanufacturer; for farther improvements to a machine for the weaving of cotton and other goods by hand, steam, water, or other power. Dated May 14.

Charles Hobson, of Sheffield, in the county of York, silver-plater, Charles Sylvester, of the same place, chemist, and John Moorhouse, of Sheffield aforesaid, surgeon; for a method of sheathing ships, roofing houses, and lining water-spouts, with a material not heretofore used for those purposes. Dated May 18.

Thomas Pidgeon, of the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; for a saddle upon a new construction. Dated May 18.

Abraham Ogier Strausbury, of the city of New York, in the United States; for locks and keys upon an improved construction. Dated May 18.

John Bevans, of little Queenstreet, Lincoln's-inn-fields, in the county of Middlesex, carpenter and joiner; for a window-frame and sashes upon a principle wholly new, applicable to frames and sashes already made as to new ones, which conceal the sash-lines and exclude the air. Dated May 27.

John Blunt, of the borough of Warwick, in the county of War

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