the instrument purporting to be a French decree, dated in April 1811, did not take those cases out of the general operation of the law as described in the orders of

council; and that, consequently, those vessels captured under them before the 20th of May last could not be discharged from their operation.

John Plasket and Samuel Brown, for a method of making or manufacturing of casks and other vessels by improved machinery.

Mr. Edmund Griffith (Bristol) for an improvement in the manufacture of soap, for the purpose of washing with sea-water, hard water, and other water.

Mr. James Cuparn (Leicester) for preventing chimneys from smoking. Mr. Thomas Willes Cooper (Oldstreet) for an apparatus to be fixed at the naves of wheels and beds of axletrees of carriages, so as to prevent accidents from the axletrees breaking, &c.

Mr. Peter Joseph Brown (Henrietta-street) for an improved construction of buoys for ships or vessels, and for mooring chains.

Mr. Joseph Bagnal (Walsal) for a method of making bridle-bits, snaffles, &c. of iron, steel, or other metal.

Sir Howard Douglas (High Wycomb) for an improved reflecting circle or semi-circle.

Mr. Joseph Bastone (Bridgewater) for improvements applicable to bedsteads and various other things.

Mr. Thomas William Sturgeon (Howland street) for improved

Castors.

Sir Saml. Bentham (Hampstead) for an invention for a secure and economical mode of laying foundations applicable to the projections of wharfs and piers into deep

water.

Mr. William Good (London) for an improvement in valves for various purposes.

Mr. Ralph Sutton (Birmingham) for an improved self-acting curtain or window-blind rack.

Mr. John Craigie (Craven-street) for improvements on carriages, by which friction may be saved, labour facilitated, and safety obtained.

Mr. Joseph Baker (Cuckfield, Sussex) for kneading dough by means of machinery.

Mr. Thomas Pearsall (Willsbridge, Gloucester) for a method of constructing iron-work for certain parts of buildings.

Mr. William Fothergill (Greenfield, Flintshire) for a method of making copper-rollers for printing.

Mr. John Miers (Strand, London) for a method of accelerating evaporation, of destroying the noxious effluvia from spent lees, and of generating an increased degree of heat, without additional fuel.

Mr. John Hudson (Cheapside,
London)

London) for a composition for printing or painting on paper, linen, stuccoed walls, boards, &c. Mr. Jacob Zink (Mile-end) for a method of manufacturing ver. digris.

Mr. Richard Withy (Kingstonupon-Hull) for improvements in his invention for the construction of steam-engines.

Mr. George Dodd (Vauxhallplace) for machinery and the application of steam to communicate heat and motion to wines, porter, &c. in cellars, storehouses, and other places.

Mr. Henry James and John Jones (Birmingham) for an improvement in the manufacture of barrels of all descriptions of fire-arms.

Mrs. Sarah Guppy (Bristol) for tea and coffee urns, &c.

Mr. Thomas Marsh (King-street, Clerkenwell) for improvements in the construction of watches.

Mr. Robert Giles (London) for the invention of a cap or cowl to be placed on the top of chimneys.

Mr. Michael Logan (Paradise street, Rotherhithe) for an instrument for the generation of fire, and various purposes in chemical and experimental operations.

Mr. Andrew Patten (Manchester) for a discovery and improvements in the tanning of leather, by the use of pyroligneous or woodacid.

Mr. William Strachan (Chester) for a method of preparing the ore of cobalt for trade, manufacture, and painting.

Mr. Jeremiah Steel (Liverpool) for a new apparatus, and for distilling and rectifying spirits.

William Everhard Baron Von

Doornik (Wells-street) for an improvement in the manufacture of soap to wash with sea-water, with hard-water, and with soft-water.

Mr. James Adams (Pitkellony, in the county of Perth) for a method of drying malt and all kinds of grains and seeds.

Mr. George Smart (Westminster) for an improved method of preparing timber so as to prevent its shrinking.

Mr. Blenkensop (Middleton, Yorkshire) for mechanical means by which the conveyance of coals, minerals, and other articles is facilitated, and the expense attending the same is rendered less than heretofore.

Messrs. Peter Moore and Co. (London) for a vertical bond in buildings, &c.

Mr. Lawrence Drake (Cloaklane, London) for a method of preparing the various sorts of isinglass from river and marine fish.

Sir Saml. Bentham (Hampstead) for a new mode of excluding water of the sea, of rivers, or of lakes, during the execution of under water works of masonry, or for the security of foundations, applicable to the construction of seawalls, wharfs, piers, &c.

Mr. William Hardcastle (Abingdon) for improved cranes, to prevent accidents from the goods attached to the pulley overpowering the person at the winch, or in the walking wheel.

Mr. George Dolland (London) for an improved method of lighting the binnacle compass, used for steering ships at sea.

Mr. Benjamin Milne (Bridlington) for an improved double bell and gun alarm.

Mr.

Mr. Frederic Albert Winsor (Shooter's Hill) for a method of employing raw or refined sugars in the composition of certain articles of great demand.

Mr. John Justice (Dundee) for an improvement in the construction of stove-grates, calculated to prevent the smoking of chimnies, or to effect their cure.

Mr. John Simpson (Birming

ham) for improvements in the construction of lamps.

Mr. Robert Bill Rathboneplace) for an apparatus to facilitate the operation of washing clothes, and other processes necessary in family and other establishments.

Mr. Richard Waters (Fore-street, Lambeth) for a new method of manufacturing pottery-ware.

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