POLITICAL PERISCOPE.

Panorama Office, Aug. 26, 1809. A KIND of lowering interval, which occurs between the violences of a storm, is what characterises the present moment. Austria, by her armistice with Buonaparte, is lying on her arms; the issue is unknown.

Sweden also suffers no great additions of affliction at present: there is rather a stagnation of offence between her and Russia than a real confidence or harmony.

Denmark has exhausted her efforts by sea; she may continue an appearance of them somewhat longer by land; but the source of her supplies is diminished, if not cut off. Holland is in trepidation; deprived of her trade, which is her sole dependance; and equally harassed by friend a.:] foe.

The north of Germany has manifested its sentiments against its oppressor, very freely. It has produced men who could fight for liberty; though their efforts were not crowned with success. We suspect, that were the particulars of the retreat of the duke of Brunswick Oels, and his troops, fully known, they would prove decidedly that enmity to the French is the ruling passion in that region. We have no conception how it could be possible for so small a body as two thousand men to traverse the extent of country they did, unless they had found friends in their route.

The south of Germany, has certainly some of the same feelings as the Tyrol; otherwise the insurgents from that country could not have penetrated as they have done;-even into the rear of Buonaparte's army.

This disposition of the minds and opinions of the people of Germany, and its neighbourhood, could not but be known to Austria: it may contribute to justify the conduct of that power; but we cannot warrant that this conlusion is legitimate.

Spain is in a state of uncertainty: her enemies diminish; yet she makes no great progress in expelling them; diseases thin their Tanks, yet the Spaniards hardly second the efforts of those auxiliaries with spirit. The French are weak; the Spaniards are weak; and the actual condition of the peninsula demonstrates that in modern times, the resources of a nation must be calculated by other data than the mere enumeration of its inhabitants capable of bearing arms. A numerous population, athletic peasants, hardy bodies and iron minds, are necessary, are indispensable, when the protection of the country is in question; but the days in which we live by the power of system and management, have rendered preparations, stores, supplies, and regularity in the procuring and adminis. tering them, equally necessary as men. The British army has found the truth of this observation. It willingly advanced on the French; but the Spaniards were tardy: it

repulsed the French, and that heroically; but the provisions which it wanted before the battle, that battle did not procure it. If it was on the point of retreating, because it was not supported by supplies, it could reap no advantage from the destruction of the enemy; since it was nothing the nearer to obtaining food. But the inferences which in ordinary times would be justified from these facts, would be unjust at this moment; because we cannot possibly make sufficient allowances for the state of derangement into which treachery had thrown all the resources of Spain; and could we penetrate the secrets of the Junta, we should find that under the state of privation to which they were reduced, and the state of suffering of half their territories, they had done wonders; and had exceeded what nations apparently more alert, could have accomplished. We are no friends to delay; yet sometimes delay is the best auxiliary by which a state can be assisted; the Frencn certainly find their troops perish ing by the mere vis inertia of this invisible opponent, in Spain.

Britain has made a great exertion in seiz. ing the islands at the mouth of the Scheldt. The exertion is honourable to Britain, as it shews what the United Kingdom can do; though, we apprehend, it can do much more, if urged by imperious circumstances. This we do with ease; what more we could do, must not be inferred from this. The advantages of this acquisition may appear hereafter. Should Britain retain the island of Walcheren, ultimately, it will vex Buonaparte; it will reduce all his edicts and prohibitions of importation, and certificates of origin, to the mere brutum fulmen of an edictfrom the Vatican.

A propos of edicts from the Vatican. An excommunication of Buonaparte by the Pope has been circulated; and it would be an interesting document were it beyond suspicion genuine. We have our doubts concerning it; yet we know that a copy of it was received here, from our minister in Sardinia. As an individual the Pope may be pitied: ssa public person, we are ready to conjecture, that when he expires, his office will expire with him. We almost venture to valicinate that the triple crown will comprize that of the West, the Mitre, and the Crescent. Stranger things have happened: for who could have foreseen that the man of sin "should have turned off the " of Babylon," with so little ceremony, after having enjoyed her favours, in an uncommon degree?

Whatever private information we receive from France, states the discontent of the people. Fresh conscriptions must be called out; and whisper says, those of twe years in advance. This may not be true; but every thing leads to the conviction that the loss of France in lives, has been enormous.

LIST OF PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS, JSSUED

BETWEEN JAN. 1, AND JUNE 21, 1808.
[Compare Panorama, Vol. V. p. 1167.]

John Brierley, of River Bank, Flint; for a new mode or process of setting b'ue lead, for corroding the same juto white lead. Jan. 17.

James Goddart, of Newinan-street, Mary-le-bone, Middle. sex, gent.; for a method of, and machinery for, manafacturing a ertain description of wooden boxes, called chip boxes or mil boxes, of all the various sizes and shapes hitherto made. Jan. 29.

John Pk, of Charlotte-row, Fort-nlace, Bermondsey, Surrey, millwright; for a machine for casting printing types, by which three motions out of five nade in the ordinary method of casting types are saved. Jan. 29.

Edward Stracey, of Parliament street, Westminster, Esq.; for an improved method of hanging the bodies, and of constructing the perches, of four-wheel carriages, by which such carriages are renderd less liable to be overturned, and of constructing perch-bolts and collar. braces. Jan. 29.

Samuel Whitfield, of Church-street, Birmingham, brazier and scale beam-maker; for a method for the ap plication of stamps, dies, and piercing tools, to the manufacturing of ears, handles, d bevel's, for culinary articles of every description, whether in wood, iron, brass, copper, tin, silver, or any mixed metals. Jan. 23.

Michael Logan, of Rotherhithe, Surrey, civil engineer; for a transcendant ordna ce or improved cannon, for either marine, fort, or field service. Jan. 26.

Anthony George Eckhardt, of Berwick-street, Soho, Middlesex, gent.; for a method or methods of casting metallic and other bodies, together or separately, in moulds, in the state of fluidity or softness, in order that the said bodies may preserve the figures thus obtained when they shall afterwards become solid or consistent bv cooling, or by any chemical or other change, which shall or may take place, or be produced, in the nature, order, proportions, or quantities of the component parts or in gredients of the same. Jan. 28.

John Dickinson, of the parish of Saint Martin Ludgate, London, stationer; for certain improvements on his patent machinery for cutting and placing paper; and also certain machinely for the manufacture of paper by & new method. Jan. 19.

George Finch, the younger. of King-street, St. Anne, Soho, Middlesex, orris weaver; for certain methods of manufacturing various kinds of metal laces, so as to imitate gold and silver laces; and also of manufacturing gold and silver open laces. Feb. 4.

Thomas Potts, of Hackney, Middlesex, gent.; for a new process of freeing tarred ropes from the tar, and rendering it fit for the use of the manufacturer. Feb. 4.

Frederick Albert Winsor, of Pall Mall, Westminster, Middlesex, Esq.; for certain improvements upon his former patent oven, stove, or apparatus for carbonising all sorts of raw fuel and combustibles, and reducing them info superior fuel of coke and charcoal, as well as for extracting and saving, during the same process, the oil, tar, pyroligeneous vegetable acid, and ammonial coal liquors; and, for extracting and refining all the inflammable air or gas, so as to deprive it of all disagreeable odour during combustion, and rendering the gas itself salutary for human respiration, when properly diluted with atmospheric air. Feb. 7.

Willian Congreve, of Cecil-street, Strand, Middlesex, Esq.; for a mode of construction or arrangement for any building, so as to afford security against hire, with other advantages. Feb. 7.

Archibald Thomson, of Manchester, Lancaster, engineer; for certain improvements or macames applicable to various kinds of spinning. Feb. 7.

Willian Everhard Baron Doornik, of Old Lisle-street, Leicester-square, iu the county of Middlesex; for certain improvements in the manufacture of soap to wash with sea water, with hard water, and with soft water. Feb. 7.

John Stead, Leith walk, Edinburgh, card-manufacturer; for a method of manufacturing cards which are employed in the carding and spinning of flax, tow, wool, cotton, and silk, so as to combine the quality of a fine card with the strength of a coarse one, Feb. 9.

James Grellier of Aldborough Hatch, Essex, Esq. for a building of a peculiar construction, for the purpose of burning coke and line, whereby the superfluous heat of the fire used in burning the coke is applied to burn the lime; and also, whereby such fire may be rendered perpe tual, and which he depominates, The Union and Perpetual Kiln." Feb. 15.

Stephen Hooper, of Walworth, Surrey, gent.; for a thermometer, or machine for ascertaining the heat of bars' ovens, and various other purposes. Feb. 13.

David Meade Randolph, a citizen of Virga, in the United States of America, but at present residing near

Golden-square, Middlesex, merchant; for a method of manufacturing all kinds of boots, shoes, and other artcles, by means of a substitute for thread made of her fax, or other yarns. Communicated to him by a frien and correspondent residing within the United State. Feb. 21.

Joseph Hett, of Stratford, Essex, calico printer; for a method of producing hist greens on cotton, and various other articles. Feb. 21.

Leger Didot, of Two Waters, Hertford, gent.; for improvements in the construction of umbrellas and parasols. March 1.

Richard Scantlebury, of Redrath, of Cornwall, brazier; for a machine by which he counter-balances the weight of any volume of water or other fluids, required to be lifted by any steam or water engine, or other machinery either worked by animals or men, which gains a very considerable power over any machine now in use. March 1. Edward Steers, of the Inner Temple, Esq.; for a mo thod, directed by machinery, of using the screw, by which its mechanical power or its motion is increased. March 1.

Abraham Seward, of Lancaster, in Lancaster, tin plateworker; for an improved hook for bearing up the hears of horses in drawing carriages. March 1.

Thomas Clatworthy, of Winsford, Somerset, Sheepshears-maker, and John Clatworthy, of the same plac. sheep-shcars-maker, his son; for shears, on an improved construction. for shearing sheep. March 1.

William Proctor, of Sheffield, York, optician, for improved methods of raising or supplying tubes or lam with oil, so as to remove away the shade of the vol containing the oil, and in form and use equal to Fiv mould or wax candle, which he denominates * Proctor's spiral Argand and Candle-lamp." March 9.

Frederick Bartholomew Folsch, of Oxford-street, Middiesex, merchant, and Willian Howard, of Bedford street, Lockfields, Surrey, gent.; for a certain machin:, instrument, or pen, calculated to promote facility in writing; and also a certain black writing-ink or composition, the durability whereof is not to be affected by time of change of climate. March 11.

John Heathcoat, of Loughborough, Leicester, lacemanufacturer; for a machine for the making and mana facturing of bobbin lace, or lace nearly resembling fore.gt lace. March 20.

James Hakewill, of Beaumont-street, Saint Mare-lebone, Middlesex, artist; for an improvement in the construction of tables, chairs, and stools, for domestic, military, and naval service, and in the packing of the same. March 20.'

Simeon Thompson, of Maddox-street, Hanover-square, Middlesex, gant for a machine or machinery for 2sing, lowering, drawing, driving, forcing, impressing, a moving, bodies, substances, materials, fluids, articles, or commodities. March 20.

Charles Valentine, of Saint James, Clerkenwell, m

Middlesex, japanner; for a new mode of ornamenting and painting all kinds of japanned and varaished wares of inetal, wood, paper, or any other composition, and various other articles. March 20.

James Youne, of Theobald's Row, Middlesex, smith; for a machine or instrument, to be applied to stoves of grates, for preventing accidents by fire, and whereby the fires in stoves or grates may be put out and extinguished with safety and facility. March 23.

Elizabeth Perryman, of Greek-street, Soho, Middleser; for a street and hall lamp, and the necessary apparatra for expediting the trimining, lighting, and cleansing, the said street and hall lamp. March 29.

Richard Willcox, of St. Mary Lambeth, Surrey, ma. chanist; for sundry apparatus or machinery for acceler ting the manufacturing of felt or stuff hats, and for cat ting and removing by machinery the furs of beavers, tabbits, and the whole variety of skins, the furs or wood of which are used for the purpose of hat-making. Aprils.

Richard Willcox, as above; for certain machinery for facilitating the manufacturing of stuff, wool, and other hats and bonnets felted. April 5.

John Thomas Groves, of Great Scotland-yard, White hall, Middlesex, Esq.; for an improved mode of cop structing buildings by which great expense, labour, a d time is saved, and buildings secured from dry-rot with other advantages. April 3.

John Frederick Archbold, of Great Charlotte-street, in Surrey, gent.; for a method of converting salt or S water into fresh water both on land and on board of ship at sea. April 15.

William Pleasants the elder, of Abby-street, in the city of Dublin, Bachelor of Arts, for a self-mwer, or mi chine which can keep itself in notion. April 19.

Phillips London the cider, and Phillips London te younger, of Saint Luke's, Chelsea, Middlesex, genti for certain new and improved methods or processes ar manufacturing, refining, and purifying muriate of 2001 or common sait. Aprit 19."

Phillis Bown Tucnason, wife of Edward Thomason, of

Birmingham, manufacturer; for improvements in the making of umbrellas and parasols. April 19.

Matthias Wilks, of Brabant-court, London, merchant ; for a compound substance or cake for the feeding of hor ses and other animals. April 20.

John Barton, of Tunbridge, Kent, gent.; for a ma

chine for raising weights or water with greater facility, and at less expense, than any at present used. April 25. Richard Trevithick, of Rotherhithe, Surrey, engineer, and Robert Dickinson, of Great Queen-street, Middlesex, Esq.; for certain inventions calculated to improve naval architecture and navigation, and to contribute to the comforts and better subsistence of mariners. April 29.

William Francis Hamilton, of Lower Mount-street, Dublin; for a new mode of preparing soda and other mineral waters; spirituous, acetous, saccharine and aroma. tic liqueurs, and sundry improvements relative thereto. May 4.

Thomas Noon, of Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, clock and watch-maker; for improvements on guns, pistols, and other similar fire-arms, and which improvements are applicable to cannon and other large guns. May 4.

Nugent Booker, of Lime-hill, Dublin; for a plan for improving and erecting time-kilns, whereby a very considerable saving is made in fuel, and the lime most perfectly burnt in a short time, which he denominates Grellier and Booker's lime-kiln. May 9.

Bartholomew Folsch, of Oxford-street, Middlesex, merchant; for improvements on certain machines, instruments, or pens calculated to promote facility in writing. May 9.

for a

William Johnson, of Blackheath, Kent, gent., new or improved process for heating fluids, for the purpo ses of art and manufacture. May 15.

Edward Manly, of Uffeulme, Devon, clerk; for a plough upon an eutire new construction. May 30.

John Lindsay, (late lieutenant-colonel of the 71st regiment), of Grove-house, Edgeware, Middlesex; for a telegraph or apparatus for conveying intelligence by night or by day. May 30.

Edward Cragg, of Hertford, Chester, carpenter, and William Gragg, of Oldford, Middlesex, builders' agent; for certain new modes or improvements in the making or preparing of salt. June 8.

John Frederick Archbold, of Great Charlotte-street, Surrey, gent.; for improvements in the system of distillation, rectification, and brewing. June 8.

Thomas Wells, of Erdington, Warwick, cock-founder; for a method of making and constructing barrel cocks and water cocks, whereby leakage and the sticking or setting ast of the key or plug are prevented, and the cocks are less liable to be out of order, and more easy to be repaired.

June 8.

Mark Dobito, of Kirtling, Cambridge, farmer; for an improved plough for underdraining land. June 8.

John Philip Fesenmeyer, of St. Clement Danes, Midlesez, gent.; for certain improvements in the construction and working of steam and atmospheric engines, by which they may be more advantageously worked than hitherto. June 15.

George Alexander Thompson, of Great Charlotte-street, Surrey, gent.; for a piece of machinery or instrument for cutting the wick of a lighted candle, and keeping the zame in perfect trim and of a proper length. June 15.

Charles Norton, of Birmingham, Warwick, builder; for certain improvements in the construction of horses and other buildings, whereby a considerable expense will be saved in the erection thereof, and the same rendered more dura[le and secure from fire.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. FROM THE 20TH OF JULY, TO THE 20TH OF AUGUST, 1809.

BIRTHS.

Of Sons. At the house of her Noble Consort, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, Lady Craven. At his house in Harley-street, the lady of Thomas Hoseason, Esq.-Mrs. Woodhall, the lady of J. Woodall, jun. Esq. Chief Magistrate of Scarborogh.

Of Daughters.On the 12th ulto. the Countess of Abendeen.-At his house in Stratford-place, the lady of Robert William Elliston, Esq.-Fridey morning, July 21, at the Vice Royal Lodge, Phoenix Parh, Dublin, her Grace the Duchess of Richmond.-The lady of the Rev. Dr. Myddleton, at his seat at Gwaynynog,

near Denhigh.-The Countess of Abingdon, at the Earl of Abingdon's residence in London.The lady of Thomas Reed Kemp, Esq. at Herstmonceux Castle.-On the 31s ult. at Meadow.

place, Edinburgh, Mrs. Colonel Lauriston.

MARRIAGES.

At Donington, Leicestershire, Sir William Rumbold, Bart. to the Hon. Eliz. Parkyns, daughter of late Lord Rancliffe.-At North Berwick, Capt. Brown, of 6th Dragoons, to Miss Dalrymple.-Col. Osborne, to Miss Davis, with a fortune of 60,000l.-At Godstone, the Rev. Littleton Powys, to Miss Hatsell, of Spring Gar den Terrace. At St. George's Hanover-square, F. George Syms, Esq. of Doctor's Commons, to Miss Grenwollers, of Brentford Butts.-At the Countess de Vaudreuil's, Park-lane, Amand de Froyer, to Miss Holamby, of Battersea.-Lord Grey de Ruthyn, to Anna Maria Kellam, of Ryton-upon Dunsmore, Warwickshire.-At Aston, near Birmingham, Charles Henry Harry, M.D. of Cheltenham, to Emma Mary Bedford, of Birches Green, Warwickshire.-At St. John's, Westminster, T. Daniel, Esq. of Millbank-street, to Anna Maria Wallinger, of Hare-hall, Essex.

DEATHS.

At his house, in Old Burlington-street, Sir John Hayes, Bart. in the 60th year of his age.At an advanced age, at Lockhaw Castle, Sir S. Agnew, Bart.-At Manchester-street, Henry Pye Rick, Esq. one of the Commissioners by Act of Parliament, for the Treaty with America.— Aged 75, Mr. Spencer, watch-maker, of Newgate-street. In his 48th year, after imprudently drinking a quantity of cold water, whilst warm, in attending his hay makers, the Rev. Henry Lewis, M.A. Vicar of Mucking and Broxted, in Essex. At Shuckburgh Park, Warwickshire, Sir Stewkely Shuckburgh, Bart. in an apoplectic fit. -In Sloane-street, the Hon. Mrs. St. Leger.~ Aged 103, Mr. J. Robertson, many years a carpenter and builder in Long-alley, Moorfields.Major Ormsby, Keeper of the Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin.-At King's Grange, A. Copland, Esq. of Colleiston.-At Lord Mortford's, at Chertsey, after a very short illness, Bernard Austin Brocas, Esq. of Beaurepaire, in the county of Southampton, only child of the late Bernard Brocas, Esq

The ancestor of this family came over to England with William of Normandy, and the Conqueror gave him Beaurepaire as a reward for his services, which the family have possessed ever since-At Dublin, Richard Lord Viscount Powerscourt.-At Hollybrook, county of Wicklow. Mr. Luke Wilkin, of Chowdean Hall, nerr Gateshead Fell, farmer, aged 50. Without any previous c. mplaint or indisposition, he dropped down in his hay-field, and expired instantly. -At Foxgrove, near Beckenham, Kent, Robert Hoggart, Esq.-At South End, near Bromley, Kent, the lady of Lieut.-Colonel Charles Fraser. -Mrs. Hamerton, wife of C. Hamerton, Esq. of Whitefriars.-At Hammersmith, in consequence of a fall from a chaise, Mr. Thomas Cloud (many years Proprietor of the Hammersmith coaches), in the 58th year of his age.-In Hill-street, Berkeley-square, Lady Amelia Hume.-At Ramsgate, Capt. John Gouger, aged 83.-On the 25th ult. in Basque Roads, in a gallant attempt to cut out a French brig from under a strong battery,

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

STAFF, &C. IN 1809.

War Office, August 1.

Third Reg. Dragoons.-Lieut. Shallcross Jarson to be Captain of a Troop.

21st Ditto.-Lieut. Alex. Leckey to be Captain of a Troop.

29th Reg. Foot.-Lieut. John Humphrey to be Captain of a Company.

32d Ditto.-Lieut. Thomas Jones to be Captain of a Company.

70th Ditto.-Lieut. Charles Martin to be Captain of a Company.

72d Ditto.-Lieut. Charles Gardiner, from 2d Foot, to be Captain of a Company.

87th Ditto.-Lieut. James Erskine, from 6th Foot, to be Captain of a Company.

New Brunswick Fencibles.-Brevet Major John Foster Fitzgerald to be Major.

August 8.-1st Reg. Foot, Brevet Major William Gray, from half-pay of 33d Foot, to be captain of a company.

35th Ditto.-Lieut. Henry Rutherford to be captain of a company.

38t

Ditto.-Lieut. George Henry Dansey to be captain of a company.

UNIVERSITY PROCEEDINGS AND
PROMOTIONS.

Oxford.

July 15.-On the last day of act term, the following gentlemen were admitted to degrees: Doctor in Divinity.-Rev. James Cox, of Wadham.

Bachelor in Civil Law.-Rev. C. Kissling, ditto. Bachelors in Medicine.-Wm. Hamilton, of Magdalen-hall, and Wm. St. Clare, of Christchurch.

The Rev. J C. Cockle, B. D. and Fellow of Magdalen college, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, to the vicarage of Blyton, in Lincolnshire, on the presentation of the Right Hon. the Earl of Scarborough.

The Rev. Craven Ord, B. A. of University college, is instituted by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, to the vicarage of St. Mary Le Wigford, in the city of Lincoln, on the presentation of the Rev. Dr. Ord, of Fornham, Suffolk.

The Governors of the Charter-house have presented the Rev. John Parker, M. A. late of Worcester college, to the living of Cold Norton, in Essex, vacant by the deprivation of the Rev. Francis Stone.

July 29.-Mr. Sheriffe, of Trinity college, Mr. Smyth, of Merton, Mr. Kilgour, of Wadham, and Mr. Grantham, were elected Demies of Mg lalen college. And on Wednesday Messrs. Grantham ani Parsons, of Mag lalen, and Mr. Randell, of Brisenose, were elected Fellows of Magdalen college.

On the 26th died, at Maysey, Hampton, aged 62, the itev. G. Clarke, B. D. rector of the parishes of Maysey-Hampton and Rissington

Bankrupts and Certificates, between July 22 and August 15, 1809, with the Attor nies, extracted correctly from the Lon don Gazette.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

Bailey, J. Chancery Lane, stationer.
Bennett, B. Hillsham, brewer.
Jones, B. Coventry, draper.

Ollivant, W. and T. Manchester, cotton-manufacturers.

JULY 92.

BANKRUPTS.

Cowley, E. Threadneedle Street, merchant. Att. Dawes, Angel Court.

25.-Custins, S. T. Bishopgate Street, glover. Air. Bar rew, Threadneedle Street.

Dixon, T. Bath, chinaman. Att. Shephard and Ading. ton, London."

Hart, T. Bristol, wharfinger. All. James, Gray's Inn
Square.

Hawksley, J. Arnold, Nottinghamshire, merchant.
Seymour and Muntrion, London.

Landbeck, G. W. Old Bethlehem, broker. Alt. Wis
Devonshire Street.

Newstead and Cooke, Hull, soapmakers. Att. Exley a Stocker, London.

Purnell, C. Lympsham, coal-merchant. Att. Blakes, London.

Russell, J. Altham Mills, Lancashire, miller. A. Bane, Chancery Lane.

Swain, R. Liverpool, confectioner. Att. Blackstock, St. Mindred's Court.

29.-Anderson, J. Cannon Street, merchant. 27. Swain, Stevens, and Co. Old Jewry.

Blackburn, W. Aldersgate Street, watch-spring maker. All. Bord, East In a Chambers.

Bury, R. C. Sa.ford, Manchester, merchant. Att. EY Chancery Lane.

Foxall, W. Edmonton, coach-master. Att. Phillipson and Brewer, Staple's Iun.

Gough,, J. Exeter, dealer. Att. Williams and Brocks,

Lincoln's Inn.