come branchy and thin, yielding a poor watery juice; and to this they are sometimes liable.

3. The worm is another evil which generally visits them every few years a beetle deposits its egg in the young cane. The grubs of these remain in the plant, living on its medullary parts, till they are metamorphosed into the pupa state. Sometimes this evil is so great, as to injure a sixth or an eighth part of a field; but what is worse, the disease is commonly general where it happens, few fields escaping.

4. The flower is the last accident they reckon upon, although it scarcely deserves the name; for it rarely happens, and never but to a very small portion of some few fields.

Those canes that flower have very little juice left, and it is by no means so sweet as the rest.

The lands occupied with the sugar cane in the zemindaries of Peddapore and Petta pore, exclusive of those islands formed by the mouths of the Godavery, amount to five hundred and fifty vissums, or eleven hundred acres, and their annual produce is forty-four hundred weight per acre: their whole produce will, therefore, be twenty-se

ven hundred hogsheads, of eighteen hundred weight each, or about one fourth part of the produce of the island of Jamaica. It is acknowledged by all, that this quantity might be increased to any extent, with advantage to the zemindar, the farmer, and government. This observation applies with double force to the upper provinces on the Ganges, as far as Rohilcund, where the sugar lands are of indefinite extent, and where, with a culture infinitely less perfect than that above described, great quantities of sugar and jagary are already made by the natives.

All that seems necessary in these immense tracts, is to open a market to the ryut, and secure to him a strict agreement to his lease with the zemindar.

Transgressions in this point are the great bar to Indian husbandry; for, in a good season, the zemindar raises his demands, and makes the farmers of all denominations pay, probably, a fourth more than the rent agreed on. Custom has rendered this iniquity common, and the farmer has no idea of obtaining redress of an evil, which to him appears as irremediable as the ravages of the elements.

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List of Patents for new Inventions, &c. granted in the Year 1803.

OBERT Wilson, of the parish of

Stephen Hooper, of Walworth, Surry; for machines, or machinery, upon improved principles, and methods of using the same, for the

plaisterer; for an apparatus for the purpose of stopping ungovernable horses. Dated January 20.

Joseph Jacob, of Greek-street, of the parish of St. Ann, Soho, Middlesex, coachmaker; for a metal box for the axle-trees of wheels, carriages, mills, engines, and machines. Dated January 20.

George Matcham, of the city of Bath, esquire; for a principle or mechanical power for raising weights, in preventing ships from sinking, in raising ships when sunk, in rendering ships, which are disproportioned to shallow water, capable of entering rivers, passing bars or shoals, or otherwise moving in shallow water; and for a variety of other useful purposes. Dated January 29.

Edward Stephens, of the city of Dublin, for a furnace stove, or fire place, which can conveniently be applied to the burning of limestone, at the same time that it is used for the heating of all manner of cornkilns, evaporating stoves, and drying houses. Dated January 29.

James Gayleard, of New Bondstreet, Middlesex, staymaker; for long stays, short stays, and corsetts, on an improved construction.Dated February 1.

harbours, and preventing bars from making. Dated February 5.

William Henry Clayfield, of the city of Bristol, wine merchant; for a method of reducing and extracting lead, and other metals, from a compound substance commonly known by the name of regulus. Dated February 10.

Timothy Cobb, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, woollen manufacturer; for improvements in the manufacturing a certain kind of piece goods, called shag, or plush. Dated February 21.

Jonathan Woodhouse, of Ashbyde-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, engineer; for a method of forming a cast iron rail, or plate, which may be used in making iron rail roads, or ways, for the working and running of waggons, carts, drays, and other carriages, on public and other roads, and also a new method of fixing, fastening, and securing, such cast iron rail or plate on such roads, Dated February 28.

Robert Kirwood, of Edinburgh, engraver and copper plate printer ; for improvements on the copper plate printing press. Dated February 28.

Thomas Johnson, of Bradbury, Cheshire, weaver; for a method of preparing

preparing and dressing cotton warp. Dated February 28.

Robert Mason, of Cumberlandstreet, Portsea, Hampshire, gentleman; for improvements on a common waggon, whereby the same may be separated, and used as two carts, which he denominates the "Patent Hampshire waggon." Dated February 28.

Benjamin Haden, of the parish of Sedgley, Staffordshire, bagging weaver; for an improvement in the manufacture of bagging, for packing of nails and other purposes. Dated February 28.

Barker Chifney, of London, gentleman; for improvements in the manufacturing and preparing roofing slates, and in laying the same. Dated March 8.

James Bennet, of Oldham-street, Manchester, Lancashire, manufacturer; for a method of felting woollen cloth, and also of felting cloth manufactured of sheep's wool, and other combined materials. Dated March 10.

Samuel Miller, of the parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex, engineer; for his improved method of applying the repelling or repulsive force of nature, in order to give a stronger impulse to any substance or body in motion, as well as to destroy the bad effects of its baneful activity. Dated March 16.

Edward Shorter, of New Crane, Wapping, Middlesex, mechanic; for an apparatus for working of pumps. Dated March 21.

Robert Clark, of Fitzroy-place, Middlesex, instrument maker; for improvements in the construction of a truss, to be worn in the case of rupture. Dated March 23.

Deers Egg, of the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, Middlesex,

gunmaker; for improvement upon fire arms. Dated March 23.

William Bainbridge, of Little Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Middlesex, musician; for improvements on the flagelet or English flute. Dated April 1.

William Boond, of Manchester, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer; for a new invented manufacture of mixed and coloured cotton velvets, velveteens, velverets, thicksets, cords, and other cotton piece goods, commonly called fustians. Dated April 5.

Richard Francis Hawkins, of Woolwich, Kent, gent. for a method of applying a certain power to the working of ships and other windlasses, ship and other winches, cranes and other purposes, to which the same hath never been employed. Dated April 5.

John Leach, of Merton abbey, Surry, calico printer; for improvements on steam engine boilers, which improvements are applicable to boilers in general. Dated April

7.

Daniel Paulin Davis, of Bloomsbury-square, Middlesex; for a method of cleansing and sweeping chimnies. Dated April 11.

John Todd, of Bolton, Lancashire, cotton spinner; for a method of weaving and manufacturing woollen cotton, linen, silk, and worsted cloth or stuffs; and also certain improvements on, and additions to the machines used in weaving, by means of looms wrought by water, steamengines, or any other power. Dated April 14.

William Horrocks, of Stockport, Cheshire, cotton manufacturer; for improvements on the loom for weaving of cotton, and other goods, by steam or water. Dated April 20.

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Samuel Day, of Charter-house, Hinton, Somersetshire, esq. for an engine or time piece, which he denominates, "The Watchman's Noctuary and Labourer's Regulator." Dated April 20.

James Hall, of Mellor, in the parish of Glossop, Derbyshire, weaver; for improvements upon looms. Dated April 27.

Elizabeth Bell, of Hampstead, Middlesex, spinster; for a method of sweeping chimnies, and of constructing them in such a manner, as to lessen the danger and inconvenience from fire and smoke. Dated May 10.

George Beaumont, of South Crossland, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and Walter Beaumont, of the same place, manufacturers of woollen goods; for a mixture to be used in the preparation of sheep or lambs wool, for various purposes. Dated May 17.

Joshua Green, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, manufacturer; for a method of manufacturing corded and ribbed shags or plushes, composed of different materials, on a principle entirely new. Dated May 17.

James Roche, of King-street, Holborn, Middlesex, gent. for a medicine for the cure of the hooping cough. Dated May 23.

stone, for stuccoing and washing new and old stone, and brick buildings; and for cementing the joints, and tucking and pointing all stone and brick works that require proof against water and damps. Dated May 28.

Chester Gould, of Red Lionstreet, Clerkenwell, Middlesex; for a glass on a new principle, to be used by mariners at sea, instead of the common sand glasses when heaving the log, for the purpose of ascertaining the ship's rate of sailing; and also for other uses, either on land or at sea. Dated May 28.

Thomas Fulcher, the elder, of Ipswich, Suffolk, surveyor and builder; for a water-proof composition, in imitation of Portland

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John Gamble, of Leicester-square, Middlesex, gent. for improvements on and additions to a machine for making paper in single sheets without seams or joinings. Dated June

1.

John Randall Peckham, of White Lyon-street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, watchmaker; for improvements on a lock to a musket, fuzee, carbine, fowling-piece, or pistol. Dated June 10.

James Fussell, of Mills, Somersetshire, iron manufacturer; for a method of working water-wheels for raising of water, and, in a great measure, preventing water-wheels from being flooded, and other useful purposes. Dated June 14.

John Wood, of Manchester, Lancashire, machine-maker; for improvements upon machines for spinning and reeling of cotton. Dated June 14.

James Thomson, of the city of Edinburgh, bell-hanger; for improvements in the hanging of bells, window-curtains, window and other blinds. Dated June 14.

John Harriott, of Wapping, Middlesex, and Edmund Cobb Hurry, of Gosport, Southampton, esqrs. and William Crispin, of Gosport aforesaid, shipwright; for a method of making and working windlasses. Dated June 14.

Thomas Newstead, of Kingstonupon-Hull, Yorkshire, chemist; for a method of preparing barrilla and kelp, and the neutral salts obtained therefrom. Dated June 18.

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Peter Storck, of John-street, Tottenham-court-road, Middlesex, baker; for a substitute for brewer's yeast, which may be made and used in all weathers and climates. Dated June 21.

Thomas Brown, of Alnwick, Northumberland, whitesmith; for a machine for the cutting of tobacco, tallow for tallow-chandlers and soapboilers; and also for the cutting of turnips, cabbages, carrots, and other kind of roots, for the feeding of cattle. Dated June 21.

Joseph Everett, of Salisbury, Wiltshire, clothier; for an article manufactured of different materials, and wove in a peculiar manner, so as to give it an appearance of velvet, which he denominates "Salisbury Angola Moleskin." Dated June 28. George Woods, of Barbican, in the city of London, gent, for a method of constructing harps, harpsichords, piano-fortes, violins, guitars, and other stringed musical instruments. Dated June 28.

Archibald earl of Dundonald; for a method of treating or preparing hemp and flax, so as materially to aid the operation of the tools called hackles, in the division of the fibres, and which is likewise attended with other advantages. Dated June 28.

Edward Warner, the younger, of Little New-street, in the city of London, brass-founder, for an improvement upon the air-lamp, the properties whereof consist in reflecting a more general and stronger light by means of certain valves, and a newly-constructed burner. Dated June 29.

James Roberts, of Abbotston Farm, Southampton, yeoman, and George Cathery, of New Alresford, in the same county, gent. for a method of completely and effectually

eradicating smut from wheat; and that wheat, when cleansed by their invention, will produce flour of as good quality and value as flour made from wheat of the best growth. Dated July 6.

Joseph Manton, of Davies-street, Berkley-square, in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, Middlesex, gun-maker; for a hammer, upon a new construction, for the locks of all kinds of fowling-pieces and small arms. Dated July 6.

James Stuart, of London-street, in the parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex; for a method to strengthen ships or floating vessels. Dated July 27.

John Norton, of Roll's-buildings, Fetter-lane, Fleet-street, London, mathematical instrument-maker; for an improvement in the construction of a water-mill. Dated July 28.

Thomas Kentish, of Baker-street North, Portman-square, Middlesex, esq. for a dewick, for the purpose of more expeditiously, with less labour, and at less expence than heretofore, loading and unloading ships and vessels, removing heavy bodies in any direction, and which is also applicable to other useful purposes, Dated July 29.

Arthur Woolf, of Wood-street, Spa-fields, Middlesex, engineer; for an improved apparatus for converting water or other liquid, into vapour or steam, for the working of steam-engines, for the heating of water or other liquid employed in brewing, distilling, dying, bleaching, tanning, and other processes connected with arts and manufactures ; calculated also to make a stronger extract than can be obtained by the processes commonly in use from a given quantity of any vegetable or

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