220 New Coinage. 



the entrance of Baffin's Bay on the northern coaft of 



America. 



Gil. Moli read, for Cit. Andrieux, a tale in verfe entitled 

 Le Doj'e?i de Badajoz. 



The Inftitute then adjudged the prize propofcd the IVth 

 year, the fubje£t of which was " the condruftion of a 

 pocket time-piece proper for determining the longitude at 

 fea, &c." 



The National Tnftitute at Paris has applied to the Direc- 

 tory for permiffion to convoke a deputation of the Literati of 

 all countries in amity with the French Republic, to ellablifli 

 a uniformity of weights and meafures throughout the civi- 

 lized world. 



A Society of Agriculture and Rural Economy, which has 

 already among its members Creuze-la-Touche, Gilbert, 

 Thouin, Desfontaines, Dubois, Crettc-Palluel, Teffier, Cha- 

 bert, &c. has been cftablifhcd at Paris. As this fociety will 

 hold public meetings, the information it muft diftufe in its 

 memoirs will no doubt tend greatly to ameliorate the Hate of 

 ^n-riculturc, and to improve this ufeful art. 



On the evening of the 17th inft. the Members of the 

 Roval Academy of London, by defire of government, held a 

 meeting at Somerfet-houfe to confider of fome beautiful 

 device for our coin, which may render counterfeiting more 

 difficult, and imprefs foreigners with an idea of our national 

 tafte. The idea is good lb far as it goes, but it ought 10 go 

 farther. Our coinage ought to be fo managed as to ferve 

 for a real hiftorical feries and chronology of all important 

 public events, whether of a profperous or adverfe nature. 

 The Royal Society and Royal Academy would be ufefully 

 employed in producing the necefiary devices, legends, &c. 

 We lay ufefully, for we know of no means that could with 

 equal facility give fo much information to all ranks in the 

 community. The events recorded on our coins ffiould not 

 be thofe only that are of a political nature : the aera of ufeful 



inven- 



