'To Charles Bagenell Fleetwood, of Parliament Street, Dublin, in that part of the United Kingdom, called Ireland, gentleman, for his new invented liquid and composition for making leather and other articles water proof. Sealed 28th February: six months for enrol ment. To Joel Spiller, of Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, engineer, for his invention of an improvement or improvements, in the machinery to be employed in the working of pumps. Sealed 6th March: four months for enrolment. To John Heathcoat, of Tiverton, in the County of Devon, lace manufacturer, for his invention of a new method of manufacturing certain parts of machines used in the manufacture of lace, commonly called bobbin net. Sealed 9th March: six months for enrolment. To John Heathcoat, of Tiverton, in the County of Devon, lace manufacturer, for his invention of certain improvements in machines now in use for the manufacture of lace, commonly called bobbin net, and a new method of manufacturing certain parts of such machines. Sealed 9th March: six months for enrolment. To John Heathcoat, of Tiverton, in the County of Devon, lace manufacturer, for his invention of an improved economical method of combining machinery, used in the manufacture of lace, in weaving and in spinning, worked by power. Sealed 9th March: six months for enrolment. To William Darker Mosley, of the Parish of Radford, in the County of Nottingham, lace manufacturer, for his invention of certain improvements in the making and working of machines, used in the manufacture of lace, commonly called bobbin net Sealed 10th March: six months for enrolment. - To William Morley, of Nottingham, lace manufacturer, for his invention of various improvements in machines, or machinery now in use, for the making of lace or net, commonly known by the name of bobbin net. Sealed 15th March: six months for enrolment. To Rupert Kirk, of Osborne Place, Whitechapel, dyer, for his invention of a new method of preparing or manufacturing a certain vegetable substance growing in parts abroad, beyond the seas, and imported to, and used in these Kingdoms as a dye, or red colouring matter for the use of dyers, called Safflower, (Carthamas) so as more effectually to preserve its colouring principle from decay or deterioration in its passage from the places of its growth to England and other parts of Europe. Sealed 20th March: two months for enrolment. To Jean Henry Petel pierre, of Chalton Street, Somer'sTown, in the Parish of St. Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, engineer, for his new invented engine, or machine, for making the following articles from one piece of leather without any seam or sewing whatever, that is to say, all kinds of shoes and slippers, gloves, caps, and hats, cartouche boxes, scabbards, and sheaths for swords, bayonets, and knives. Sealed 20th March: two months for enrolment. To James Rogers, of Marlborough, in the County of Wilts, surveyor, for his new invented improved method, or improved instrument or instruments, for determining or ascertaining the cubic contents of standing timber. Sealed 20th March: six months for enrolment. A grant unto John Lingford, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, lace machine manufacturer, for his invention of certain improvements upon machines or machinery now in use, for the purpose of making that kind of lace, commonly known or distinguished by the name or names of bobbin net, or Buckinghamshire lace net. Sealed 20th March: six months for enrolment. To John Heathcoat, of Tiverton, in the County of Devon, lace manufacturer, for his invention of improvements in certain parts of the machinery used in spinning cotton, wool, or silk. Sealed 20th March: six months for enrolment. To Henry Berry of Abchurch Lane, in the City of London, merchant, for his invention of certain improvements on a machine or apparatus for more readily producing light. Sealed 20th March: six months for enrolment. To Jean Jacques Stainmare, of Belmont Distillery, Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall, in the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, in the county of Surry, distiller, in consequence of communications made to him by certain foreigners residing abroad, and discoveries by himself; for the invention of improvements in the process of an apparatus for distilling. Sealed 20th March: six months for enrolment. 224 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC NOTICES. Mrs. Maria Graham will publish next month, in one volume, quarto, her Journal of a Voyage to Brazil, and Residence there during part of the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823, containing an Account of the late Revolution in that country it is to be illustrated with engravings. Mr. J. Skelton, the Author of Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata, has sent into the World the First Part of his Engraved Illustrations of the Antiquities of Oxfordshire: among the Illustrations, which are very numerous, and executed in the first style, will be found a composed Frontispiece, in which is brought together many existing remains of antiquity, a Vignette of Wroxton Abbey, Stanton Harcourt Church, with Pope's Tower, and Ancient Kitchen, and the Spencer Aisle, in Yarnton Church, with many other specimens of Ecclesiastical and Mouumental Architecture, &c. It is to be succeeded by eleven other parts, quarterly, and if they equal the one under notice, it will be one of the most splendid works ever issued from the British Press, and a honour to any age or country. Mr. William Henry Inwood, the Architect to St. Pancras' Church, has in the Press, in one volume, folio, a work entitled, The Erectheion, or Ionic Temple of Erectheus, on the Acropolis of Athens, and other Architectural remains in Greece, with marble and terra cotta fragments of Athenian Architecture, collected and brought to England in the year 1819. The work will be embellished with Thirty-nine Plates, and a Map to exhibit the situation of the Temple of Erectheus, the Temple of the Parthenon, the Propylæm, the Temple of Victory, the Theatre of Bacchus, &c. &c. all of which are represented from original Drawings. The work will also contain an Essay on the Rise and Progress of Ancient Architecture. DIBDIN'S MONUMENT,--Sievier, the Engraver and Sculptor, is engag upon a Monument to the memory of that distinguished Patriot, Poet, Composer, and Vocalist, the late Mr. Charles Dibdin; report speaks highly of the modelled design, and from the specimens already produced of the artist's ability, there can be no doubt but that he will do ample justice to the work. Mr. Cochrane, whose pedestrian peregrinations has excited so much wonder, is engaged Printing an Account of his Travels in Asia and the Northern Regions of the Dominions of the Russian Emperor. It is said that in one direction he pene. trated as far eastward, through this inhospitable clime, as the provinces of Kamschatka, Ochotsk, and Tehuktchi, where he was stopped by authority. His narrative, if faithfully recounted, must be highly interesting. The History of China is preparing for publication by Messrs. Klaproth and Ramusac, at Paris. This work, if judiciously written and contains authentic information, will be extremely desirable, as we have no work, with the exception of Du Haldé, that gives any tolerable account of this singular country and its inhabit LONDON: SHACKELL AND ARROWSMITH, JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLEET-STREET. |