1796.| Proceedings of the Confervatory of Muficy at Paris. he) 
the artiffSs DuRAaNpD and TuiBaup, of 
Paris, for their plan of a Temple to be 
erected to Equality, on the area of the 
Garden of Beaujon. The Jury pro- 
nounced this plan to be novel, replete 
with character, and perfectly correfpond- 
ing tg the ideas of the Programma. 
They judged the Garden Beaujon, how- 
ever, to be not extenfive enough for the 
ground-work of fo auguft a ftructure. 
Some inferior prizes were then ad- 
judged to feveral artifts, for the beft 
plans of Rural Edifices, Primary Affem- 
blies, Decadary Temples, Prifons and 
Houfes of Arreft, and Baths and Foun- 
tains, &c. , 
‘The models of National Theatres did 
not gain the approbation of the Jury, 
and no prizes were beftowed. 
Percier, of Paris, and FONTAINE, 
of Pontoife, obtained the firft pecuniary 
prizes, for their plans of embellifhment 
for Panise, 
The projeét of the Temple of Equa- 
lity is the only one which will be recom- 
mended by the Jury to Government, as 
worthy of being ereéted at the public 
charge. It does not follow, however, 
that the other plans difcovered a medio- 
crity of genius or invention inthe artilts ; 
many of them certainly evinced confide- 
rable genius, but as the conftruétion of 
National Edifices muft neceffarily require 
much time and immenfe expence, the 
Jury was obliged to exercife a rigid feve- 
rity im its decifions, and to exclude all 
defigns which did net approximate to 
their own ideas of perfeétion. 


THE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. 
On the firft of Brumaire (O&. 22) the 
f{chool of mufical inftru€tion was open- 
ed at Paris, in the Confervatory of Mufic, 
in prefence of a deputation of the National 
Inititute, and the Direétor-general of 
public inftruétion, in the name of the 
Minifter of the Interior. The fitting 
was public; the members of the Con- 
fervatory were prefent, and about four 
hundred pupils of both fexes, with their 
relatives, &c. ‘The deportment of the 
proteflors, and the fedate yet eager at- 
tention of the {cholars, muft neceffarily 
have made an impreffion even on fuch as 
from the want of organs, inftruétion, or 
reflection, attach the leaft value to the art 
‘of mufic. 
_ After reading the law which authoriz- 
ed the eftablifhment of the Conferva- 
tory, JARRETTE, commiffary of orga- 
nization, pronounced a difcourfe, wherein 
he laid open the faults in the ancient 
medes of mufical inftruction, the immenfe 
lols juftained by the art a number of years 
paft, in the want of all inftruétion, even 
the moft imperfeét, and the advantages 
likely to redound to harmony trom the 
prefent eftablifhment, and the modes of 
culture!introduced into it. The regula- 
tions propoled by the commiffary, adopt- 
ed by the Infpectors of Inftruétion, and 
approved by the Executive Directory, 
were then recited. 
The fitting terminated with a concife, 
but interefting oration, delivered by Gos- 
sEC, dean of the infpectors of inftruc- 
tion. 
The general effeé& of this fitting could 
not fail to excite the moft ardent hopes in 
the breaft of every lover of che art; hopes 
which feem to be on the point of being 
realized. On the following day, the five 
in{pectors proceeded to examine the pu- 
pils, with a view to diftribute them into 
claffes. ‘This important duty, difcharged 
with a truly paternal zeal, took up the 
whole of the eight following days ; and 
on the 6th Brumaire, the learners, whe 
had been previoufly examined, were ar- 
ranged into clafles. The zeal of the 
adminiftrators, and of the different pro- 
feflors, keeps pace with that of the in- 
fpectors of inftruétion, and the inftitu- 
tion would be already in a ftate of entire 
eftablifhment, if temporary embarraff- 
ments did not intervene. It is expeéted, 
however, that the prompt and vigorous 
alliftance of government w:ll remove 
thefe confiderable obttacles, &c. 
[In our next we fhall have the plceafure of 
prefenting to our Readers, the ufeful. Proceed- 
ings of all the Sittings of the Lyceum oF 
Arts. ] 

MATHEMATICAL CORRESPONDENCE. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
IS your Magazine for Auguft, a cor- 
refpondent, under the fignature of 
Exotericus, has made fome remarks on a 
little work of mine on Algebra, lately 
publifhed ; and I might, perhaps, have 
rather left the noticing of them to others, 
had not an opportunity been thus offered 
to me, of correéting an error in my ob- 
fervations on Cardan’s Rule. Exotericus 
chas properly brought the inftance of the 
equation #3%-+-274—28—=0, in which I 
deny the propriety of following the ufual 
mode, by making a+-4=1; for as the 
Soy former 

