The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-08 00:00:00

NEW INVENtIONS.

A Gentleman named Mollerston has obtained a
Patent for a chemical composition' for.- preparing
hides, skins; leather, silk, linen; &c. in pieces or
made, up, giving them• colour and.gloss, and ren-
dering them water-proof, arid impenetrable to trot
' or corroding liquids, and at the same time preset',
ink them from decay, and keeping them salt and
pliable.
Mr. Woods has. obtained a Patent for construCt-
ing variouistringedinstruments in such a manner as
seldom to require, tuning, by preserving an exact
equality of tension, by means of leavers fixed at the•
end of. the strings, so that one .m6venient of the
leaver shall affcet the. whole or a great number.of
the strings.
Another new lamp has been invented, which,
however, appears .to possess no other claim to no.
tice. than the novelty of its constrinElion; it is 61111.;
pended. on an axis, on which it moves while burn..
ins : the oil is on one side, and a counterpoising,
weight cm the:other. As the weight `of oil de,
creases,'the lamp on the side of ;the burner dips so
as to.formosn angle of 45 degrees, by which mea!ig
it is Conceived the lamp will be fed more freely.
The South American horse,hides, which being
dried in that climate, all their natural mJisture is
parched up, have hitherto borne low prices.at our
market.. .4-A tanner, in the .Borough,, has fiturd,
that by soaking them in soft stinking water,, for
ten or twelve days, and afterwards leaving them
for fourteen days, .they are sufficiently soft to be.
'nand:tamed into Spanish or Morocco leather.
A Patent has becn obtained foe converting parch.
merit or vellum into leather, .and' making it Water.'
proof:. " The skins of vellutri .Or parchment are to
he h,iaked twenty-four hours in water,. they are
thin to be Winced,
,and steeped. an equal time in -1
liquorconSisting of twenty gallons of water, one
pound and a half. of. white copperas, bruized fine,
•orte ounce of .sal-atnrooltiac, and a pound of cream
of. tartar,' which is. sufficient for fifty skins,
The liquor is then to be strained off into another
vessel, and it, are to he Mixed a pint of spirit
of marine salt,' one pound,of spirit of-nitre, and ten
poun'ds of oil of vitriol. The skins put into this .
solution are to be constantly'stirred about till they
have discharged all the lime; they:are then..to be
immersed-for twelve hours in clear river water, and
afterwardi tined out as dry as possible. Now
pur'thern into a' decutlion made of twenty pounds
of oak bark, five pnunds'of elm bark, three pounds
of Hewn vita chips, three pounds of sassafras, arid
seven pounds of sumach, put into a large copper
with twenty gallons of water. boil the whole
gentlY for twenty-four hours, stra:n it, and let it
cool 'until blood wann : then dip:'the skins in it
one-after another for about five minutes, after which
put themin tan.pits, with, a weak solution of oak
bark, or with sumach, where they arc to remain,
till properly tanned, or !about four or five days.—
To make them waterproof, they must be soaked.
about the same number of days in nut or. linseed;
oil, then wrung out as dry as possible, and brushed
over several times with a composition made in she .
following manner : to red.lead, litharge,, copperas,.
sugar of ,lead, resin, bees wax and pitch, each one
pound, add seven gallons of nut, linseed or fish. oil,
and boil than in an iron or earthen pot zill7the
whole is as thick as treacle ; when cold it is to •be
spread on the leather, or brushed on when warm,
or spread when cold three or four dines, and in a
few days it will be fit for use." • . •

The other Patents recently obtained are by a
dyer in Lancashire. for .dying cloth,44c. of a nan.
keen, or buff colour. By a sail.cloth maker, at
Castle Eden; Dothatn, fora new method Of indnu.
,ka6toring sail.cloth with &tibia or single thread
warp, without starch car any substitute fur stiffen.
ing, and without the double threads being twisted
together: By a person at Nottingham for a method
of Clothing and unclothing windmills while in mo.
icon, provided of the Dutch, or ordinary construe.
►ion. And by a flax—spinner in. Durham,, for a,
machine for hackling flax, and, at the' same time
carding the tow.

Saturday morning, ,between three and four
o'clock, as one of the Bath coaches, on its way to
London, stcipped to water at a public.hoube near
Maidenhead, the, coachman having quitted the
horses, they ran off in the direlion for Maiden.
head Thicket. An immediate search took place,
but only one of them could be found, who had
broken from the traces. At day:light, however,
the coach was discovered at a distance on the Com.
mon, much damaged. There, were four Ladies in
the coach when the animals ran off, but they re.
eel ved no material injury.

,
The Barracks At Dorchester had, on Tuesday
night, nearly been destroyed by fire, in consequence
of some of the German Legion having retired to bed
with their pipes in their Mouths ; they had fallen
abler!,, and the lighted tobacco haring communicated
to the bad eloaths, the whole, ward was in a blaze
before the accident was discovered.

ArTeMrr. AT SU. IC Iv t..Betweett four and five
O'clock on 'thurstlay afternoon a woman of the name
of Ventris,
,who resides .at No. I'4 in Hemlock.
court, Cary-Atttet,Jeft her husband at his tea, and
wrnt down stairs, *aiing she found herself rather uti.
well, as what she drank with Mrs. Booth, where
she had b,te'n on a visit, did not agree with her„—
Shortly •after, klittle girl, who went down stairs
for aviug. of .water, ran ue in a fright, cryiug out,
" Mar.my, matOmy,. Mrs. Vent [if is. below in the
kitchen, kicking 1" Het het...band hewing-the alarm,
and thinking, as she complained of being unwell,
that she was in a fir, ran down stairs, and, to his
attoni knew, I,und the 'unfortunate woman sus.
pended by a rope, from the-leaden water-pipe which
ran across the cieling of the kitchen. She was in-
stantly cat down, and ,Mr. Staunton, a Surgeon,
who
,lives faCing Somerset.house; Strand, sent for,
who, after bleeding her; and 'administering some
metlicines,•• so far recovered her, that she is supposed
so be out of danger.
A poor, woman named, Wcbb, 67 years of age,
drowned herself on Aiunday 'near ,Italer's 'Hole,
Norwich. •