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_ Citizen Peyre has found the method of 
‘proportioning the flatue of peace to the 
different objects with which fhe would be 
environed, and ot mafking the aukward 
raccordement of the ancient church, with 
the dependent part of the dome. He de- 
4eribes this method in the plans which he 
has prefented. 
twill be objeGted, perhaps, that the 
printings with -which the infide of the 
dome are ornamented, repredent fubjects 
drawn from the hiftory called facred; but 
according to our colleague, thefe paint- 
ings ought to be confidered as monuments 
proper to cherifh a love for the arts; we 
ought to be no more aftonifhed to fee 
them ina place where the fiatues of peace, 
of victory, and of the French Republic 
are only fymbolical figures, than we ought 
tobe, to fee in a galierv deftined to pub- 
lic affemblies, fubjects taken fromthe 
practices of the Egyptians and Greeks, or 
flatues formerly adored by thofe na- 
tions. . . 
Citizen Gracin, affociate in the fec- 
tion of antiquities and monuments, has 
given an account, in the name of a {pecial 
commiffion, of the refult of fome ‘opera- 
tions relative to a new difcovery commu- 
nicated to the National Inftitute, by Ci- 
tizens Dit and GHERARD. The object 
was to preferve to colours the fame tone 
which the hand of the artift had given 
them, in painting upon porcelain. 
‘The colours have pertedtly refifted the 
ation of fire, as well as the different 
tints prepared in prefence of fome mem- 
bers of the fpecimen, who had put the 
double {pecimen under their feal. They 
haye acquired the glofs of varnith; this 
Walpoliana, No. 1X. " 
Dead 
is the cnly change which they have under- 
gone. 
This difcovery is of great utility im 
the art of painting, and efpecially in 
the line of flower painting. Hitherto no 
procefs could preferve the drawings in all 
their frefhnefs. 
Citizen GIBELIN has made a repoit in 
his own name, ona Spanifh memoir, thé 
objest of which is to fhew, that the mode 
of election adopted by the National Initi- 
tute of France, and difcovered by Citizen 
Barba, amember of thé feftion of ma- 
thematics, is the cniy one conformable 
to reafon and juttice. 
Thethree other methods, known under 
the denominations of abjolute plurality of 
the two thirds of ihe votes; of plurality of 
half of the votes and a cafting one; relative 
plurality of fuffrages, are falle, erroneous, 
and unjult, and only tend to difappoine 
the wifhes of the great majority. 
The author of the Spanifh memoir, 
Don josera-Isip0RE MoRALES, fup- 
ports his opinion by very accurate ealcu- 
lations, in which our time will not per- 
mit us tofollow him. He is aftonifhed 
that the mode put in. practice by the In- 
ftitute, is almof unknown in France; 
‘¢ Ina nation,” adds he, * wherein they 
held it for an axiom, thai it bas no other 
danger to avoid than that of its elections.” 
‘¢ Bread and public games,”’ faid the 
Romans; “ National feftivals and repub- 
lican inftitutions,’’ fays, at this day, the 
Great Nation. The inftitute had named a 
cominiffion, charged to make a report to 
it on the firft of thefe two objets. The 
report was prefented tq it by Citizen 
MONGEZ. 

WALPOLIAN 
ja Ue 
OR, BONS MOTS, APOPHTHEGMS, OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE AND LITERA- 
. TURE, WITH EXTRACTS FROM. ORIGINAL 
HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. 
LETTERS, OF THE LATS 
NUMBER IX. 
bee This Article is communicated by a Literary Geitleman, for many years in habits of intimacy 
gsth ASr. WALPOLE. 
It is partly drawn up from a colleétion of Bons-Mots, &c. in his own 
band-writing 3 partly from Anecdotes written down after long Converfation with him, in which 
be would, from four oClock in the Afternoon, till tavo in the Morning, difplay thofe treafures of 
Asecdote with which bis Rank, Wit, and Opportunities, had replenifhed his Memory 5 and partly 
from Original Letters to the Compiler, on fubjetis of Tajle and Literature. 

CXXVI. GIBBON. 
HE firft volume of Gibbon’s Hiftory 
is fo highly finifhed, that it refem- 
bles a rich piece of painting in enamel, 
The fecond and third volumes are of in- 
ferior compofition. The three laft feem 
tome in a medium, between the firft yo- 
fume and the two next, 
CXXVIE. STUPID STORIES. 
A ftupid ttory, or idea, will fometimes 
make one laugh more than wit. I was 
once removing from Berkeley Square ta 
Strawberry Hil!, and had fent off all my 
books, when a meffage unexpeétedly ar- * 
rived, which fixed me in town for that af- 
ternoon, Whattodo? — defired my man 
te” 
