Jonathan Jessop, of York Town, Pennsylvania, a balance bridge, July 1.

Christian Bergh and Peter Shermerhorn, jun'r., of New York, for spinning and winding rope yarn, July 2.

Charles McMurtry, of New Marlborough, Massachusetts, in the forge bellows, July 8.

Robert Miller, of Lexington, Kentucky, for breaking hemp and flax, July 13.

Allen Harrington, of Ostego county, New York, in medicine cases, July 16.

John Staples, of Richmond, Virginia, a pendulum steam engine, July 18.

John Hughson, of Clinton county, New York, in kilndrying corn and malt, &c., July 18.

Haziel Smith, of Philadelphia, a machine for chopping meat or any other substance fine, (a), July 19.

Archelaus Putnam, of Philadelphia, an improved accelerating wheel head, July 20.

Leonard Sommer, of Downington, Chester county, Pennsylvania, in horizontal wooden springs for carriages, (b), July 22. Jacob A. Dana, of Casanovia, Madison county, New York, a flax and hemp break, July 23.

Jonathan Righter, of Downington, Chester county, Pennsylvania, a machine for making sacket and sand shovels, July 23. Richard Sealy, of Newark, New-Jersey, in the still and condenser, July 25.

William Hollingsworth, of Elkton, Maryland, in tanning, July 30.

Samuel B. Hitchcock and John Bement, of Homer, Cortland county, New York, in boot and shoe making, July 30.

Hawley Emmerson, of Hancock, a wear for catching fish, August 14.

(a) Where meat is cut up on a large scale, this contrivance will greatly

diminish labour.

(b) These springs are fixed to the Lancaster stage carriages, and to other stages, and are much approved of. Editor.

Jesse Reed, of Kingston, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, in cutting and heading nails, August 14.

William Miller, of Lampeter township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in mill stones, August 15.

Michael Morrison, of Boston, for picking wool, &c. called the wool picker, August 15.

William Gorsuch, of Baltimore, a perpetual lime kiln, August 17.

Bennet Lies, of New York, in the sea motion pump, August 19. John Sanford, of Sharon, Litchfield county, Connecticut, in varying the motion of a plough, August 20.

Nathaniel Miller and Philip W. Miller, of Franklin, Norfolk county, Massachusetts, in weaving, August 20.

Charles Reynolds, of East Windsor, Connecticut, a mode of propelling carriages by steam, August 21.

Robert Hare, of Philadelphia, a mode of ripening and keeping malt liquor and cider, (a), August 22.

David F. Launey, of Philadelphia, in the electrophorus, Au

gust 23.

Abraham Lands, of Georgetown, Columbia District, in the water wheel, August 28.

Theodore Hart, of New York, a double spring angular truss, August 30.

Andrew Henshaw and Nathaniel Harlow, jun'r. of Banger, Hancock county, Massachusetts, in constructing and working pumps for the use of ships, &c., August 30.

(a) The patentee states that malt liquor and cider may be kept on draught in the patent casks as ripe as in bottles, and may be preserved without vent, during transportation, in the warmest weather, by sea or land. They are of various sizes. The smallest holds about as much as three and an half dozen porter bottles, the middle size five and a half dozen, and the largest eleven dozen.

By means of a pipe, annexed by a simple contrivance, the liquor will spontaneously mount into a bar room, and being received in a keg furnished with a vessel for holding ice, may be drawn at pleasure, cool and foaming. This improvement is now in operation in Philadelphia, in various taverns.

Editor

THE PAULUS HOOK STEAM FERRY BOAT.
(With a Plate.)

THE danger and inconvenience of the ferry across Hudson's river, from New-York to Jersey city, has been sensibly felt by all who were necessitated to pass by that route, which is one of the most frequented from Maine to Georgia. In head winds and strong tides, it has often required three hours to make the passage, and in a calm it has been next to impossible to get over such a boat as would be able to take a horse and carriage. Even under the most favourable circumstances, the risque and inconvenience of putting a carriage and horses into a sail boat, was daily experienced, and the passage of the Hudson pressed like a load on the mind of the traveller who was under the necessity of crossing it. A bridge in this situation is rendered impracticable, in consequence of the width of the river, the depth of the water, expense of construction, and the injury which it would cause to the navigation. But, happily, a novel work of art has removed all those difficulties: Mr. Fulton has constructed a Steam Ferry Boat, the complete success of which seems to give every advantage which could be expected from a bridge, at least during the