John Lingford, for a self-regulating truss. Ben. Steevens, for an improved method of making soap. Richard Trevithick, for improvements on the high pressure of steam-engines. Julien Jorett, John Postel, and Lewis Contesse, for a method of extracting gold and silver from refiners' cinders. John Taylor, for a mode of producing gas for the purpose of affording light. Charles Whitlow, for working manufactures from certain plants of the genuses Urtica and Asclepias. Robert Brown, for improvements on the machinery of ploughs. James Gardner, for improvements on a machine for cutting hay and straw. William Pope, for improvements on wheel-carriages, and methods of making them go without animals. Grace Eliz. Service, for new methods of manufacturing straw. John Taylor, for methods of refining sugar. Charles Sylvester, for improvements in bobbin lace. Robert Baynes, for improvements in vertical windmill sails. Robert Dickinson, for improved means for the propulsion of vessels through the water. Samuel Balden and John Burtenshaw, for a machine for the better heating of ovens. William Madeley, for an improved drilling machine. John Lewis, for an improved shearing machine. David Mushet, for improvements in the manufacturing of iron. William Edridge, for an improved fire-engine. Joseph Harvey, for a machine for the better striking and finishing of leather. Richard Dixon, for improvements in the construction of trunks and portmanteaus. John Street, for improvements in the making and working of bellows. John Edwards, for a method of preventing leakage in ships and other vessels. John Chesholms, for a method of constructing register and other stoves. Stephen Price, for a machine for shearing woollen cloths. Thomas Field Savery, for a salt possessing the property of the Sedlitz water. James Carpenter, for an improved curry-comb. William Bemman, for improvements in ploughs. Thomas Ashmore, for a new mode of making leather, T VOL. LVII. Y A General A GENERAL BILL of all the CHRISTENINGS and BURIALS within the BILLS of MORTALITY, LONDON, Christened in the 23 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surry 12,210-Buried 9385. Abortive and stilborn..... DISEASES AND CASUALTIES, 804 Evil .... ..... 7 Pleurisy.. Abscess. 105 Fevers of all kinds.. Aged. 1757 Fistula ....1309 ..... Quinsy 3 Rash Ague. ..... 5 Flux.... 65 Rheumatism Apoplexy and suddenly 421 French pox. ... 22 Scrophula. Asthma.. 630 Gout .... 67 Scurvy.... 2 Gravel, stone, and strangury 16 Small Pox Bile 5 Grief. 5 Sore throat. Bleeding .... 23 Headmoldshot, horshoe Sores and ulcers. 383 Bursten and rupture...... 34 head, & water in the head. Spasm ...... Cancer.. Chicken Pox. Child bed. Coids. ... 88 Imposthume. 4 St. Anthony's fire.. ....... 2 Inflammation 953 Stoppage in the stomach 1 Surfeit Colick, gripes, &c. 1 Teeth.. Consumption. Cough and hooping cough. .... 232 Influenza. 16 Jaundice 26 Lethargy 4210 Livergrown. 4 Measles .... 87 Miscarriage 6 Mortification. 792 Palpitation of the heart.. ... 3 Christened, Males 12,281-Females 11,133-In all 23,404. | Buried, Males 9882-Females 9678-In all 19,560. 1 Palsy There have been executed in the city of London and county of Surrey, 20, of which number 8 only have been reported to be buried within the bills of mortality. Total 363 1 TABLE OF THE NUMBER OF BANKRUPTCIES IN ENGLAND, From Dec. 20, 1814, to Dec. 20, 1815, inclusive. Total Bankruptcies.. 1285. Increased from the last year...219 Average Price of Corn per Quarter in England and Wales, 1815. 64 4 37 10 30 3 | 23 10 36 0 Price of the Quartern Loaf according to the Assize of Bread in London, 1815. The Assize was then abolished by Act of Parliament. A Statement of the Quantity of Porter brewed in London by the Twelve first Houses, from the 5th of July, 1814, to the 5th of July, 1815: Combe, Delafield, & Co. 105,081 2 72,080 56,982 51,294 Barclay, Perkins, & Co.. 337,621 Cocks and Campbell.... 38,107 Statement of the Quantity of Ale brewed by the Seven principal Houses, from July 5, 1814, to July 5, 1815. Barrels. Stretton and Co. ... Wyatt and Co. 27,074 Hale and Co. ... Barrels, 10,134 Charrington and Co. .... 20,444 Thorpe and Co. 5,433 14,491 |