Dually elected from tlie hereditary governors', and the whole 
eftablifhment is under the government of a committee of 
fifteen directors. 
The Gallery was originally intended to have been doled 
during the time of the annual exhibition at the Royal 
Academy, becaufe, as they exprelfed in their own account, 
the Rritilh Gallery did not with, in any refpect, to inter¬ 
fere with it; but, on re-confideration, it has been thought 
that keeping both the exhibitions open at one time, may 
be of mutual advantage to each ; for, when a party fet 
out on a picturefque tour, they ufually vifit all the col¬ 
lodions they can in one day. Confidered as a whole, this 
-Gallery has a very fplendid appearance. The fcarlet-co- 
loured paper with which it is covered gives, at firlt fight, 
the idea of a magnificent fuite of rooms in a private fnaji- 
fion, not originally intended for pictures, though recently 
decorated with them. 
One great objection to the exhibition at the Royal 
Academy has been the over-bearing majority of portraits 
which ufurp the belt fituations in the rooms. Thefe me¬ 
morials afford little that can lead to the improvement of 
the ftudent, and Hill lei's that can tend to the gratification 
of the connoilleur. From this Gallery thefe elfufions of 
vanity are very properly excluded, by which means there 
is fome chance of every picture being taken from fome 
llory in which an artilt that has any abilities may difplay 
them. 
This Inftitution has propofed the following pre¬ 
miums for pictures by artifts of, or refiding in, the united 
kingdom, painted in the prefent year, and fent to the 
Britifh Gallery,on or before the 4th of January, 1812 : viz. 
lit. For the befl pidure in hiftorical or poetical compo¬ 
sition, three hundred guineas. 2d. For the next bell 
pidure in hiftorical or poetical compofition, two hundred 
guineas. 3. For the next belt picture in hiftorical or 
poetical compofition, one hundred guineas. Another 
proof of the liberality of the directors of this Inftitution 
is their having juft now (April 1811) purchafed, at the 
price of three thouland guineas, Mr. Weft's famous 
pidture of Our Saviour healing the Sick in the Temple, 
which oth'ervvife was to have been fent to America. 
4. The Surrey Institution for the diffufion of Li¬ 
terature and Science was planned in the year 1807. This 
eftablifhment is laid to be in the Methodift connection, 
and is intended to promote the fame objects as the Lon¬ 
don Inftitution. The building lately occupied as the 
Leverian Mufeum, on the fouth end of Blackfriar’s Bridge, 
has been fitted up for the ufe of the proprietors and fub- 
icribers. The reading rooms were opened on the 25th of 
March, 1S0S ; lectures on natural philofophy, aftronomy, 
and chemiltry, were begun by Mr. Jackfon in October of 
the fame year; and Mr. Accum began a courfe on mine¬ 
ralogy in the following year. At prefent there are two 
reading-rooms ; one in which the London daily papers 
are upon the table, and the other where the reviews, 
magazines, foreign journals, and popular pamphlets, are 
read. The proprietors of this Inftitution are limited to 
ieven hundred, and they paid thirty guineas for each (hare, 
for which they are entitled to perfonal admiftion, and to 
a transferable ticket. The library is intended not only 
to comprife a collection of works of reference, but is alio 
to contain all modern publications, which are to be cir- 
•culated among the proprietors and fubfcribers. 
5. The Russel Institution, eftablifhed in the year 
a808, occupies an elegant building in Great Coram-ftfeet, 
near Ruffel-fquare, the centre having a handfome portico 
•with four pillars. It was built a few years ft'nce, for an af- 
fembly-room, &c. TheobjeCt of the Rullel Inftitution is the 
•gradual formation of a library, confining of the molt ufe- 
lul works in ancient and modern literature; the effcabliRi¬ 
me n t of a reading-room, provided with the belt foreign 
and Englilh journals, and the periodical publications; and 
lectures on literary and fcienttfic fubjefts. The books in 
the library areuircuiatcd for reading among the proprietors. 
■under certain regulations. The proprietors are limited to 
feven hundred, at twenty-five guineas each. 
6 . The National Institution, founded in the year 
1810, at the Pantheon in Oxford-llreet; “for improving 
the manufactures of the united kingdom, and the arts con¬ 
nected therewith ; for promoting the general interefts of 
its commerce, both foreign and domeftic ; and for aiding 
the profperity of every clafs of its manufacturers.” Tim 
eftablifhment is not yet completed ; nor do we think, from 
the Plan we have feen, that it will be of a natures, to re¬ 
quire notice in a work like the prefent. 
I'NS.TITU'TIONARY, dftj. Elemental; containing the 
firlt doctrines, or principles of doctrine.—That it was not 
out of fafhion Ariftotle declareth in his politics, among 
the inflilutionary rules of youth. Brown. 
INSTITU'TIST, f. {from infliiute.~\ Writer of inlli- 
tutes, or elemental inftructions.—Green gall the inJHtutifs 
would perfuade us to be an efteCt of an over-hot Itomach. 
Harvey. 
IN'STITUTOR, f. [Latin.] An eftablifher; one who 
fettles.—It might have fucceeded a little better, if it had 
pleafed the injlitutors of the civil months of the fun to have 
ordered them alternately odd and even. Holder. —In- 
ftruftor; educator.—The two great aims which every in- 
flitutor of youth Ihould mainly and intentionally drive at* 
Walker. 
To INSTOP', v. a. To clofe up; to ftop: 
With boiling pitch another near at hand 
The learns inflops. Dry den. 
INSTOTJR AMENTUM, J. [Latin.] In old records, 
the aCt of flocking a farm. 
To INSTRUCT',, v. a. part. pret. inflruEled or inflruEl ; 
\inflru80, Lat. fnflruire, Fr.] To teach; to form by pre¬ 
cept; to inform authoritatively; to educate; toinftitute; 
to direCt.—Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, 
that he might inflruEl thee. Dent. iv. 36.—His God doth 
inflruEl him to diferetion, and doth teach him. Ifa. xxviii, 
26.—Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, inflruEled about the 
fong, becaufe he was fkilful. 1 Ghron. xv. 22 ; 
He ever by confulting at thy Ihrine 
Return’d thewifer, or the more inflruEl 
To fly or follow what concern’d him molt. Milton. 
It has commonly in before the thing taught.—They that 
were inflruEled in the fongs of the Lord were two hundred 
fourfeore and eight. 1 Ckron .—Thefe are the things wherein 
Solomon was inflruEled for building of the houfe of God. 
2 Chron .—To model; to form. Little in ufe. —They fpeak. 
to the merits of a caufe, after the pro.dor has prepared 
and inflruEled the fame for -a hearing before the judge. 
Aylijfc. 
INSTRUCT'ING, f. The aCt of giving inftruCtions. 
INSTRUC'TIO'N, f. The aft of teaching; informa¬ 
tion.—We are beholden to judicious writers of all ages, 
for thofe difeoveries and difeourfes they have left behind 
them for our inflruElion. Locke. 
It lies on you to fpeak, 
Not by your own inflruElion, nor by anv matter 
Which your heart prompts you to. Shakefpeare. 
Precepts conveying knowledge.—Will ye not receive in- 
JlruElion to hearken to receive my words ? Jer. xxxv: 
On ev’ry thorn delightful wifdotn grows, 
In ev’ry ftream a fweet inflruElion flows ; 
But fome untaught o’erhear the vyhifp’ring rill, . 
In fpite of lacred ieafure, blockheads ftifi. Yyung. 
Authoritative information; mandate: 
See this difpatch’d with all the hafte thou can’ft; 
Anon I’ll give thee more inflruElion. Shakefpeare. 
INSTRUCTIVE, adfl Conveying knowledge.—With 
variety of mftnCElwe expreffions by fpeech man'alone is en¬ 
dowed. Holder. —I would not laugh but to inftruftj or, if 
my 
