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places, in which gun-powder or other combustible matter is or may be put for the purpose of explosion. Dated April 11, 1807.

Anthony Francis Berte, of the parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the city of London, merchant; forcertain improvements in casting printer's types and sorts, and other articles of metal. Communicated to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad.Dated April 15, 1807.

James Forbes Dalton, of HighHolborn, in the county of Middlesex, coach-maker, for certain improvements in the construction of fourwheel carriages. Dated April 21, 1807.

William Shotwell, of the city of New York, in America, now residing in the city of London, merchant; for certain machines and improvements upon machines, for the purpose of bleaching, washing, and cleansing linen, and every other article that can be done by hand. Dated April 21, 1807.

Abraham Matterface, of the parish of Christ-church, in the county of Surrey, Mill-wright; for certain improvements in the construction of a machine for mashing and mixing malt. Dated April 21, 1807.

Mark Noble, of the parish of Battersea, in the county of Surrey, engine-maker; for a chain-pump, handpump, and an improved extinguishing fire-engine. Dated Ap. 25, 1807. Robert John Stanley, of the town of Gainsborough, in the county of Lincoln, gentleman; for a method of tanning leather without the use or application of bark (or mineral astringent), except in the tauning of backs and bins, yielding a great advantage both in respect to time and expence, whereby as good if not a superior article or commodity is produced; the ingredients required by this method

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of tanning are entirely of a vegetable quality, and principal part thereof the produce of the United Kingdom.— Dated April 28, 1807.

Rudolphe Cabanel, of Lambeth, Surrey, engineer; for improvements in the construction of wheels and axletrees, by which will be obtained the following and other advantages: the carriage will be less liable to overturn; and, in consequence of the friction being almost wholly done away, will move with much less power or labour of the horses, the necessary oil or grease being supplied without separating the wheel from the axle, are so securely attached as to obviate the frequent accident of the wheels coming off, and should they be injured, any other wheel, whether cart, coach, or waggon, may be substituted as a temporary resource, and a wheel or wheels may be shifted at pleasure. Dated May 5, 1807.

James Woods, of Ormskirk, Lancashire, chair-maker; for a machine for churning milk and cream, and which may be used as a pump. Dated May 9, 1807.

William Cubitt, of Walsham, Norfolk, engineer; for a method of equalizing the motion of the sails of windmills. Dated May 9, 1807.

Francis Frome, of Spring-Gardens, Westminster, Middlesex, gentleman; for an improved portable boot-jack, with a guard to prevent the possibility of any accident to the legs or ankles in pulling off the boots. Dated May 11, 1807.

William Bainbridge, of Holborn, London, musical instrument-maker; for improvements on the flageolette or English-flute. Dated May 14, 1807.

John Roebuck, of Warren-street, St. Pancras, Middlesex, civil engineer; for improvements in a machine called The Caledonian Balance. May 14, 1807.

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Chester Gould, of Walworth, Surrey, gent; for improvements on a machine for mangling linen and other articles required to be mangled.Dated May 26, 1807.

Joseph Bowyer, of Kidderminster, in the county of Worcester, carpetmauufacturer; for a method of working or manufacturing carpeting for carpets and carpet rugs not heretofore used. Dated May 29, 1807.

Jolun Brown, of the parish of St. Andrew Hubbard, in the city of London, stationer; for certain improvements in the construction of a press for printing books and other articles, part of which may be applied to presses now in common use. Dated June 2, 1807.

John Bywater, of the town and county of the town of Nottingham; for certain improvements in the construction of windlasses for weighing the anchors of ships and navigable vessels, and various other purposes. Dated June 6, 1807.

Allan Pollock, of Paisley, NorthBritain, at present residing in London, merchant, for a stove of a new construction, and various improvements applicable to stoves, grates, and fire places. Dated June 11, 1807.

Henry Maudlay, of Margate-street, Cavendish-square, in the county of Middlesex, engineer; for improvements in the construction of steamengines. Dated June 13, 1807.

Francis Plowden, of Essex-street, Strand, in the county of Middlesex, esq. for a safe and sure method of preserving, for an extraordinary length of time, at sea and on land, butcher's meat, animal and other comestible substances, in a sweet, palatable, and nutritious state without acid, salt, or drying; the preservation of which apthartic viands he conceives will be of great public utility. Dated June 13, 1807.

John Syeds, of Rotherhithe Wall, in the county of Surrey, compass-inaker; for certain improvements in the construction of a machine for making rope or cordage, either shroud or cable laid, and in the mode of manufacturing the same. Dated June 16, 1807.

Robert Barlow, of Spring Gardens, in the county of Middlesex, chemist and medical electrician; for certai oriental, aromatic, chemical compositions or compounds, to be made and moulded into various forms, shapes, and ornamental devices, as amulets in butter-flies, birds, shells, and animals, and to be worn as an ornamental part of dress by ladies and gentlemen, as rings, broaches, lockets, pins, combs, bandeaus, and other ornam:ents; which oriental, aromatic, chemical composition he denominates "ebenbosamic and ebengavni-bosamic composition or compounds, or aromatic variegated artificial marbles and stones, opaque and transparent. Dated June 16, 1807.

William Atkins, of the city of Norwich, shawl-manufacturer; for cer tain improvements in the construction of a loom for weaving borders or stripes, or different colours, on shawis or any goods made of cotton, silk, linen, or worsted, or any other mixture of the same. Dated June 16, 1807.

James Palmer, of Enon Cottage, Shrewsbury, in the county of Salop; for a method of constructing and erecting bridges. Dated June 26, 1807.

John Dickinson, of the parish of St. Martin Ludgate, in the city of London, stationer; for a certain machine or machinery for cutting and placing paper. Dated June 30, 1807.

William Bound, of Ray-street, in the parish of St. James Clerkenwell,

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in the county of Middlesex, smith and iron founder; for aeceiver applicable to register and other stoves, by which means the cinders and ahes are with cleanliness and safety constantly retained; while the same forms an easy support to a general firescreen. Dated July 4, 1807.

Aspley Pellat, of Saint Paul's church yard, in the city of London, glass manufacturer; for his improved method for admitting light into the internal parts of ships, vessels, buildings and other places. Dated July 7, 1807.

Charles Gröll, of Leicester fields, in the parish of St. Martin, in the city of Westminster, for the discovery of certain improvements on harps. Dated July 13, 1807.

Joha Norton, of Rolls buildings, Fetter-lane, in the city of London, mathematical instrument-maker; for his improved pump. Dated July 13, 1807.

James Bradley, of Maid-lane, Southwark, in the county of Surrey, iron-founder; for his new kind of iron bar to be used in fire-places, for boilers, furnaces, hot-houses, and any other fire-place where bars are used. Dated July 13, 1807.

Gorden Howden, of Oxford-street, in the county of Middlesex, sadler; for his girth ponimel, which most effectually prevents the saddle from getting forward upon any description of horses, however much nature may, in the shape of the animal, work against it. Dated July 20, 1807.

Charles Lucas Birch, of GreatQueen-street, in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, in the county of Middlesex, coach-maker; for certain improvements in the construction of the roofs and upper quarters of landaus, landaulets, barouche landaus, barouches, barouchets, curricles, and other

carriages, the upper parts of which are made to fall down. Dated July 21, 1807.

John Phillips, of East-Stonehouse, in the county of Devon, stone-mason, and sculptor; for his method or methods of constructing and moving offices, counting-houses and other rooms, with desks, drawing boards, and other similar conveniences, which method or methods may also be ap plied in the constructing and remo7ing bridges, coltages, sentry boxes, and to other purposes or erections of a smaller or larger extent. Dated July 28, 1807.

Joseph Astley, of Borrowstoumness, in that part of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Scotland, chemist; for certain improvements in the manufacture of saiammoniac. Dated July 28, 1807.

Enoch Wood, of Burslem, in the county of Stafford, potter; for a method or contrivance of applying power for the purpose of raising water from a lower to a higher level. Dated July 30, 1807.

Robert Dickinson, of Long Acre, in the county of Middlesex, esq; for certain improvements on, or in machinery for improving turnpike and other roads, and for other purposes. Dated August 1, 1807.

Edward Coke Wilmot, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, gent. for an instrument for the purpose of warming beds, and which may be applied to various other purposes.— Dated August 10, 1807.

Richard Rees, of Red Lion passage, in the county of Middlesex, cutler; for certain improvements in trusses for persons afflicted with ruptures. Dated August 25, 1807.

Samuel Hill, of Whiteley Wood, in the county of York, Saw-maker; for a method of making iron and

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steel backs for fixing upon, and using with, the blades of scythes, and of straw and hay knives, whether the blades thereof be rolled, forged, cast, hammered, or otherwise manufactured. Dated August 26, 1807.

Ralph Dodd, of Exchange-alley, in the city of London, engineer; for astill or alembic, with a refrigeratory worm or condenser, and a piston and rod, for the use of distillers, brewers, and other persons using the like machinery. Dated September 8, 1807. James Day, of Church-lane, Whitechapel, in the county of Middlesex, merchant; for a method of making and compounding a certain liquid composition, called Danzig or Dantzic spruce, or Danzig or Dantzic Black Beer. Dated Sept. 9, 1807.

William Pedder, of Norfolk-street, Strand, in the county of Middlesex, esquire; for an addition and improvement to the cattle-mills and water-mills for grinding sugar-canes, or any other mill or machine requiring additional velocity and power. Dated October 19, 1807.

Tebaldo Monzani, of Old Bond. street, in the county of Middlesex, and of Cheapside, in the city of London, music-seller; for certain improve ments in the musical-instrument called the german flute. Dated October 19, 1807.

Edward Shorter, of the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, in the city of London, mechanic; for certain improvements in the machine or instrument, called or known by the name of a Jack for roasting meat. Dated October 21, 1807.

Louis Carou, of the city of Paris, now residing in the city of London, manufacturer; for certain new methods of weaving or manufacturing hair along with silk or thread, or other materials, and of making the

same into perukes or wigs, and vari ous other articles, so as to imitate na ture, and of taking the measure or section, or profile, of the head, by a instrument applicable to that and other useful purposes. Dated Octo ber 21, 1807.

William Chapman, of the town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, civil engineer, and Edward Walton Chap man, of the same place, rope-maker; for a method or methods of making a belt, or flat-band, for the purpose of drawing coals and other minerals up the pits or shafts of mines, and for raising of heavy articles, in any situation whatever. Dated October 30, 1807.

Henry Thompson, of Tottenham, in the county of Middlesex, merchant; for an invention which consists in impregnating Cheltenham or other nåtural medicinal waters, or such as are usually denominated, " mineral wa ters," with one or more of the different gases or aëriform fluids, and in adding other substances to, or com bining the same with, such waters. Dated October 30, 1807.

George Hawks, of Gateshead, in the county of Durham, iron-manufacturer; for a method of making, and likewise of keeping in repair, cast-iron wheels for coal-waggons, aud other carriages, where such wheels are applicable. Dated October 30, 1807.

Account of a Method of cultivating Carrots, and applying them a Food for Cattle. By John Chris tian Curwen, esq. of Workington Hall, in Cumberland.

[From the Transactions of the Society of Arts, &c.]

In Mr. A. Young's valuable and interesting report on the agriculture

of Suffolk, I was much struck with his account of the culture of carrots, and the advantages resulting from the application of them as food for horses. From the very general opinion which prevails, that none but particular soils are applicable to the growth of carrots, the culture of them to any extent has been confined to small districts. I presume, therefore, that it may not be unacceptable to the society to be informed of the success of trials in this matter upon a stiff loam, partaking in a great measure of clay.

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Mr. Young's observations are confined to sowing by broad-cast, which can be successful solely in sandy soils. The method I have pursued has been to trench, plough, and stitch up the ground intended for carrots, as soon as it was clear, leaving it in that state during winter, which greatly facilitates its working in the spring. In April I break it up by giving it three or four ploughings, harrowings, and rakings, which bring it into garden tilth. Previous to the last ploughing, I give from ten to fifteen cart-loads of ashes per acre. The second week in May I have it stitched up, and inade ready for sowing, allowing three feet between each stitch; and I throw the ridges as high as they can be put. The tops of the stitches are smoothed with a very light roller, so as to admit of a furrow being drawn with a hand-hoe.

The seed, ten days or a fortnight before it is used, is mixed with wet sand, and placed in some warm situation, so as to be in a full state of vegetation before it is sown. A fort night is gained by this method, and the carrots are less liable to be injured by the weeds. The plough and harrow are kept at work during the whole summer. The plants are twice

hand-weeded, and afterwards thinned. The expence attending this is considerable, but the value of the crop amply compensates it.

In 1804 I had an acre and a rood, which had been previously occupied by cabbages, and afterwards by tares. The soil was very heavy and strong. The tops of this crop were so abuudant, that they would have fed twenty head of cattle for a month. I began cutting them too late, by which means I lost a great part. It is essentially necessary to get the carrots dry, to enable them to keep. I endeavour, if the weather be favourable, to have them up by the first or second week in October. I employ women to take them up with forks, which costs 101. The crop yielded 829 Winchester bushels, equal to 4143 stone (of 14 pounds). Estimating the carrots at 6d. per stone (the price of oats at that time) they were worth to me 1031.

Each working horse in my employ is allowed 8 pounds of oats per day. One half was taken away, and supplied by an equal weight of carrots, and this was continued while they lasted. The general opinion was, hat the horses improved in their condition upon this food.

In 1805 I had three acres and three roods of a similar soil sown with carrots, which had previously borne a crop of oats. The first part of the season was uncommonly cold, and afterwards unusually wet, which checked the growth of the tops, so that they never got to any size, and were eaten off by sheep. In order to facilitate the work, and at the same time to save expence, I made a trial of the plough to take off the earth from the carrots, and then setting in and turning them up.

The injury was trifling, and the expence

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