roads for horses and carriages so provement applicable to fire-stoves, as to render them more durable. grates, and ranges. Joseph de Cavaillon, for improve William Panter, for an improvements in the preparing, clarifying, ment to facilitate rotatory motion, and refining of sugar, and other and lessen or improve friction in vegetable, animal, and mineral wheel carriages and machinery of substances. various descriptions. William Wall, for a horizontal John Winter, for a method of escapement for watches. joining and combining horn and George Montague Higginson, for tortoise-shell together. improvements in locks. David Wheeler, for a method of Isaac Robert Mott, for a new drying and preparing malt. instrument called the Sostimente Edward Nicholas, for a plough Piano-forte. to cover wheat and other grain William Bundy, for machinery with mould when sown. for breaking and preparing flax Antonio Joaquin Friere Marroce, and hemp. for a method of manufacturing an James Atkinson, for improve- improved machine for calculating ments on lustres, chandeliers, lan the longitude at sea. thorns, lamps, &c. and in the William Collins, for an improvemanner of conveying the gas to ment in the composition of a metal the same. for the manufacturing into sheets William Clarke, for a contri or plates, and the application of vance to be called a safeguard to it for the preservation of ships; locks, by which they may defy the and for the improvement of chainattempts of plunderers. puinps. Robert Hardy, for improvements Henry Wilms, for an artificial in the manufacturing of cast-iron leg, arm, or hand, on an improved bushes, or pipe boxes, for all kinds construction. of carriage wheels. John Gerard Colbert, for im. Richard Litherland, for improve- provements in the method of makments in the escapementofwatches. ing screws of iron, brass, steel, or Richard Holden, for machines other metals, for the use of all for producing rotatory and pen- kinds of wood-work. dulous motions in a new manner. John Walker, for an improved Daniel Wilson, for gas light ap method of separating molasses or paratus, processes, and philoso- treacle out of muscovado, brown, phical instruments. or new sugar. William Henry Osborn, for a Richard Williams, the elder, for principle of producing cylinders of improvements in the manufacvarious descriptions. turing of cards for the dressing Urbanus Sartoris, for improve- of woollen cloths. ments in the construction and use Archibald Thomson, for a machine of fire-arms. for cutting corks. Ludwig Granholm, for means of William Owen, for a portable pressing vegetable and animal table, or box mangle for smoothing products. linen, &c. William Raybould, for an im William Bound, and William Stone, Stone, for a method of applying Benjamin Cook, for an improved certain apparatus for converting method of making rollers and cythe fuel for heating the retorts of linders, both solid and hollow. gas-lights into coak or charcoal. Leger Didot, for certain im Robert Salmon, for an apparatus provements upon the machines for the more useful, pleasant, already in use for making wove and economic use of candles, and laid paper in continued length, A GENERAL 22 Burnt 98 Evil 2 119 3 Rasla I 2 IO 45 Grief II bread, & Water in the head} 419 Spasm.. A General Bill of all the CHRISTENINGS and Burials within the Bills of MORTALITY, LONDON, from December 10, 1816, to December 10, 1817. Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls 1044 – Buried 1085. Christened in the 17 parishes without the walls 5429-Buried 3939. DISEASES AND CASUALTIES. 41 6 Purples 1 Choaked.. Aged 1875 Fevers of all kinds. 1299 Quinsy. 2 Drowned Agae 2 Fistula .. 2 Excessive Drinking spoplexy and suddenly 462 Flux.. 9 Rheumatism 11 Executed * Asthma 743 French Pox 86 Scrophula. 5 Found Dead 29 6 Fractured. Small Pox. 9 4 Sore Throat 5 Killed by falls and several Sores and Ulcers. 65 other accidents 25 Killed themselves. 34 7 Murderer 24 Poisoned Colds 14 Jaundice 75 St. Vitus's Dance 1 Scalded Cholick, Gripes, &c. 7 Jaw Locked. 2 Stricture 8 449 Strangled. 111 Suffocated Cow Pox Measles. 725 Tumor Cramp.. 1 Miscarriage 6 Water in the Chest 68 Total 367 109 Mortification 304 Worms 6 162 Bruised Whereof have died, 929 Forty and fifty. 1983 Eighty and ninety.. 683 A hundred and three 706 | Fifty and sixty. 1788 | Ninety and a hundred. 156 A hundred and five. Decreased in the burials this year 348. * There have been executed in London and the County of Surry, 26; of which number 10 only have been reported to be buried within the bills of mortality. 1 Shot 4 1 1 | Teeth 244 | Thrush 3 Croup I 2 PRICE OF STOCKS FOR EACH MONTH IN 1817.- Lowest and Highest. Exchequer bills. 3d. . Omnium. cons. cons. 15 pr. pr. 675 63 ģ January... 2241 63 5 226 { February.. - 240 25 pr. 5 246 9 pr. 681 99 72 pr. 2 256 777 894 105 183 214 14 82 pr. 10 pr. Bank 3p. ct. 3p. ct. 4 p. ct. 5 p. ct. Long. India India S. Sea Irish Stock. 5 p.ct. 6 943 10 pr. 65 § 95 } 18 1994 18 pr. 674 | 97* 70% 87 100 19 203 42 pr. 17 pr. 70} 43 pr. 112 pr. 99% 2 19 209 100 14 pr. 711 100, 18% 211 86 pr. |18 pr. 724 101 S 250 724 14 June.. 1021 2 273 90 1054 19 218 94 pr. 13 pr. 1044 5 274 75 75} 951 103 | 19 231 10 pr. 80 1041 July.. 1 294 835 835 | 94 108 23 248 116 pr. 34 pr. 824 105 § 28.1 797 79; 1011 103} 201 226 111 pr. 25 pr. 794 105 August. . | 284 813 81% | 964 106 214 2314 12. pr. 35 pr. 804 105} 804 79 984 105% 20% 229 40 pr. 18 pr. 791 1064 September 80% 814 984 1063 | 21 240 107 pr. 23 pr. 791 107 5 280 80 81 874 10620 75 pr. 16 pr. 79105 285} | 82 834 99 1084 215 2451 118 pr. 24 pr. 815 1061 21 2464 98 pr. 19 pr. 106 83 83% 99109215 250 102 pr. 21 pr. 1071 ş 803 834 98 108% 20247 December. 1074 1 2941 99 llog's | 215 248 102 pr. 20 pr. 1077 92 pr. |