55 
t 
Apis handfome edifice, con f&ructed un- 
der the able direétion of R. Jupp, 
Esq. is from eafito welt 190 feet in length. 
Fhe principal ftory is plain funk ruftic, 
with five circular-headed windows in each 
wing. The portico, from a Grecian ex- 
ample (the temple of Minerva Polias at 
Priené.) Upon. the centre of the pedi- 
ment of the portico will be an emblema- 
tical figure of Britannia; on the eaft fide 

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL 
India Houfeus.Erenc). National Fafiitutes. 
_ building the height of two ftories. 
.: ee 
DESCRIPTION. os tHe NEW INDIA-HOUSE is LEADENBALL-STREET. 
(With aw Engraved Elevation.) . 
Pe erret 
a id 
Afia; on the welt Europe,.. On: the Rey- 
ftones of the windows ofthe principal 
ftory within the portico are to be heads in 
relicf, emblematical of the greateft rivers 
in. India, The ftory over the principal 
ftory is neat, and occupied in the ofd 
The 
whole is to be covered with handfome 
baluttrades. 
INSTITUTE 
OF FRANCE. 3 
Notices of the Memoirs prefented to the Inftitute, during the laf? Quart er. commeeicilen 
in the Public Sitting of O&. 16ib. 1797. ; 
Cuass oF Moran AND Political 
Science. By DaAunovu. 
1 Rewonepbocay read fome, obfer- 
44 vations upon the contents of the 
Petits Auguflins, oc Mufeum of French 
Monuments. CREUZE-LA TOUCHE 
read a difcourfe upon philojopbical Into- 
Zerance as well as one upon refgious In- 
zolerance : TOULONGEON, a me- 
moir, intitled, The Influence of a Na- 
ional Objervance of a dictetic Regimen upon 
the political Coud:t:on of Juch Nation: and 
RDERER a dialogue upon the: fol- 
lowing queftion : Is if poffible to unite men 
fo perfectly in fociety, that they have no 
‘eceafion for Chiefs to control them, nor 
for coercive Laws ? 
~ Levesaue& in an ideological me- 
moir upon fome <cceptations on the 
word Naiure, did away the abufes 
which arc made of this word, in the three 
wavs jt is ufually expreffed : The Man 
of Nature, the Religion of Nature, and 
naixral Law. Man, according to Le- 
refque, never ceafes to be the man of 
nature. It ts true, that in paffing through 
the different periods of the focial ftate, 
he Yuccellively acquires the ideas they 
foppofe. or infpire ; but the progreffions 
evhich he makes therein, are only thofe 
which nature permits, or even which 
fhe commands him to make at the pe- 
riods which fhe herfelf has fixed. Vhe 
@ntetlectual faculties, which the pro- 
giefs proportions to itfelf, at the dir- 
ferent agcs of édach fociety, were made 
the objeét of another memoir, wherein 
TOULONGEON defcanted in the way of 
an analy(i, upon Jenjations and tdeas. He 
compared. the faculties 
IeGual with thofe of the /enfitive, diftri- 
buted over the furface of the human 
pody ; and he has entered largely. into 
thofe relations, which are found to exift 
between the one and the’ other. 
purely intel- ftruélion is, without doubt, 
The titles of men of genius have been 
given to thofe in whom it has been be- 
lieved that thought, more exerted, more 
ftrong, or more happy, had fuddenly en- . 
riched the arts and the f{ciences with 
ufeful and illaftrious creations. But has 
there truly exifted a man of genius ? 
Mercier has put ir in doubr; and 
in two memoirs which he read to 
the clafs, he expatiated on the fenfe, and 
explained the motives, of his opinion. 
He admits among tne mental ca- 
pacities, fenfible incqualities, very dif- 
cernible fhades: he further acqnowledges 
that the fciences and the arts im their 
courfe from age to age are enlarged and 
perfected. Difcoveries are made, in- 
ventions are proclaimed $ but, according 
to MeRcIER, they. are never on a 
{udden, and therefore, of eonfequence, no 
one ought to be confidered as the work 
of an individual. Jt is to the human 
underftanding he is wilhng we fhould 
render homage, and not to the under- 
ftanding of an individual. That which we 
call invention is (fays the author) only 
a fuccefiion of trials and attempts which 
follow each others) more or lefs eafily or 
laborioufly, in the courfe of many ages ; 
and the man to’ whofe name one is 
wont to attach all the glory, would find 
it dificult to recognize all the attributes 
of the work imputed to him, or even to 
comprehend the Jeffons of thofe who be- 
lieve themfelves, and above all, call 
them{elves, his difciples. 
Among the caufes which are wont to 
exert an influence upon the progrefs of 
the human underftanding, public in- 
the. mof 
powerful! This has been the object 
of “a work in’ which MéenreLie 
has reconciled the ‘various confiderations 
upon primary f{chools, with thofe of the 
central {chools. The law and the in- 
* ftruction 
