roads for horses and carriages so as to render them more durable. Joseph de Cavaillon, for improvements in the preparing, clarifying, and refining of sugar, and other vegetable, animal, and mineral substances. William Wall, for a horizontal escapement for watches. George Montague Higginson, for improvements in locks. Isaac Robert Mott, for a new instrument called the Sostimente Piano-forte. William Bundy, for machinery for breaking and preparing flax and hemp. James Atkinson, for improvements on lustres, chandeliers, lanthorns, lamps, &c. and in the manner of conveying the gas to the same. William Clarke, for a contrivance to be called a safeguard to locks, by which they may defy the attempts of plunderers. Robert Hardy, for improvements in the manufacturing of cast-iron bushes, or pipe boxes, for all kinds of carriage wheels. Richard Litherland, for improvements in the escapement of watches. Richard Holden, for machines for producing rotatory and pendulous motions in a new manner. Daniel Wilson, for gas light apparatus, processes, and philosophical instruments. William Henry Osborn, for a principle of producing cylinders of various descriptions. Urbanus Sartoris, for improvements in the construction and use of fire-arms. Ludwig Granholm, for means of pressing vegetable and animal products. William Raybould, for an im provement applicable to fire-stoves, grates, and ranges. William Panter, for an improvement to facilitate rotatory motion, and lessen or improve friction in wheel carriages and machinery of various descriptions. John Winter, for a method of joining and combining horn and tortoise-shell together. David Wheeler, for a method of drying and preparing malt. Edward Nicholas, for a plough to cover wheat and other grain with mould when sown. Antonio Joaquin Friere Marroce, for a method of manufacturing an improved machine for calculating the longitude at sea. William Collins, for an improvement in the composition of a metal for the manufacturing into sheets or plates, and the application of it for the preservation of ships; and for the improvement of chainpumps. Henry Wilms, for an artificial leg, arm, or hand, on an improved construction. John Gerard Colbert. for improvements in the method of making screws of iron, brass, steel, or other metals, for the use of all kinds of wood-work. John Walker, for an improved method of separating molasses or treacle out of muscovado, brown, or new sugar. Richard Williams, the elder, for improvements in the manufacturing of cards for the dressing of woollen cloths. Archibald Thomson, for a machine for cutting corks. William Owen, for a portable table, or box mangle for smoothing linen, &c. William Bound, and William Stone, for a method of applying certain apparatus for converting the fuel for heating the retorts of gas-lights into coak or charcoal. Robert Salmon, for an apparatus for the more useful, pleasant, and economic use of candles. Benjamin Cook, for an improved method of making rollers and cylinders, both solid and hollow. Leger Didot, for certain improvements upon the machines already in use for making wove and laid paper in continued length. A GENERAL 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. Christened in the 23 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surry 12716-Buried 10108. Christened in the 10 parishes in the City and Liberties of Westminster 4940-Buried 4836. DISEASES AND CASUALTIES. Apoplexy and suddenly .... Asthma ....... ... ... 6 Purples 1299 Quinsy. 3 Rash 9 Rheumatism 24 Small Pox. 6 Fractured. 105! Frighted.. 5 Killed by falls and several II other accidents 25 Killed themselves..... ... . 7 Murdered ....... Bursten and Rupture 6 Gravel, Stone, Strangury 45 Grief ..... 4 Sore Throat. ..... Sores and Ulcers. Cancer.. 99 head, & Water in the head 419 Spasm.. Chicken Pox 1 Imposthume.. .......... Childbed. 252 Inflammation ..... Colds 14 Jaundice Cholick, Gripes, &c. 7 Jaw Locked. Consumption 4200 Livergrown Convulsions 3242 Lumbago 2 St. Anthony's Fire... 1002 Stoppage in the Stomach 75 St. Vitus's Dance 2 Stricture 76 Swelling 1 Teeth. Cough and Hooping Cough. 645 Lunatick Cow Pox. I Measles. 244 Thrush 725 Tumor 304 Worms. 3 Palpitation of the heart.. 718 Palsy.. ...... .... 6 Water in the Chest Broken Limbs 162 Bruised ... I Starved 449 Strangled. 111 Suffocated Christened, Males 12,624-Females 11,505—In all 24,129. | Buried, Males 10,033-Females 9,935-In all 19,968. Under two years of age 5698 Twenty and thirty... 1614 | A hundred.... 1224 A hundred and one..... 1 683 A hundred and three 1 * 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. |