1800.) — 
The firft reoular meeting was held at 
the houfe of the Prefident of the Royal 
Society, who has long been eminently dif- 
tinguifhed as the patron of fcience, and the 
promoter of ufeful inventions. Here it 
received a regular form; a confiderable 
fum of money was fubfcribed, and a plan 
drawn up, and direéted to be publifh- 
ed. ; 
This was no fooner done, than fubfcri- 
bers flocked in from all quarters, and the 
founders perceived that it would foon be 
in their power to conduct their favourite 
fcheme on an extenfive f{cale ; and as their 
funds were already refpectable, they pur- 
chafed an extenfive building in Albermarle 
Street, which they fitted up fo as to an- 
{wer the prefent purpofe. It was necefla- 
ry, however, that the fociety fhiould be in- 
‘corporated, not only that their property 
‘might be fecure, but that the laws which 
might be framed for the government of the 
Inftitution might be properly enforced. 
For this purpofe'a petition was prefented 
to the king, praying that he would grant 
them a charter ‘of incorporation, with 
certain rights and privileges, as is ufual 
in fuch cafes. ‘Io this he was not only 
gracioufly pleafed to affent, but defired he 
might be confidered as the patron of the 
efiablifhment, and that it might be called 
the Royal Inftitution, By this charter, 
‘which is dated the 3oth of January of the 
prefent year, the members of the inftitu- 
tion areconftituted a body politic and cor- 
porate, by the name of THe Royat In- 
STITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
The government -of the Inftitution is 
vetted in a prefident and nine managers, 
‘The inembers of the fociety confift in three 
clafles. 1. Proprietors ; 2. Members or 
fubferibers for life ; 3. Annual Subferi- 
bers, 
A proprietor is a hereditary governor 
of the inftitution, and has a perpetual trans- 
ferable fhare in the houfe of the inftitu- 
tion, and in all the property belonging to 
it; has a voice in the election of mana- 
gers and vifitors, and has two transferable 
tickets of admiffion into the eftablifhment, 
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379 
and to all the philofophicad lectures and 
experiments. 
A fubfcriber for life has one ticket (not 
transferable) of admiffion ito the efta- 
blifiment, and to all the lectures and ex- 
periments. The fame privilege is enjoy- 
ed by an annual fub{criber during the 
year of his fub{cription. 
The nine managers are chofen by and 
from the proprietors by ballot; three of 
them for three years, three for two years, 
and three for one year, capable, however, 
of being re-elected. Befides the managers, 
there is a committee of vifitors, to affitt 
in framing the bye-laws, to infpeét the 
Inftitution annually in detail, and to exa- 
mine and audit the accounts of the re- 
ceipts and difburfements of the Inftitution ; 
this committee is compofed alfo of nine 
perfons, chofen by and from the proprie- 
tors of the Inftitution; three for three 
years, three for two years, and three for 
one year, capable of being re-elected. 
‘The prefident has the privilege of nomi- 
nating two of the managers as vice-prefi- 
dents ; a treafurer and fecretary are chofen 
by the managers from among the pro- 
rietors. 
The following are the prefent officers: 
of the Inftitution. ‘The Earl of Winchel- 
fea, Prefident; the Earl of Morton, the 
Earl of Egremont, and the Right Hon. 
Sir Jofeph Banks, Vice-Prefidents ; the 
Earl. of Befsborough, Count Rumford, and 
Richard Clark, efq. Chamberlain of the 
City, Managers for three years ; the Earl 
of Egremont, Sir Jofeph Banks, and Ri- 
chard Jofeph Sulivan, efq. Managers far 
tevo years; the Earl of Morton, the Right 
Hon. Thomas Pelham, and Sir John Cox 
Hippifley, Bart. Manzagers for one year 3 
the vifitors are, the Duke of Bridgewater, 
the Bifhop of Durham, and Thomas Ber- 
nard, efq. for three years ; Lord Palmer- 
*fton, Lord Teignmouth, and Rowland 
Burdon, efq. for two years ; Earl Spencer, 
Lord Somerville, and-Samuel Thornton, 
efq. for one year; the Rev. Dr. Glaffe is 
Secretary, and Thomas Bernard, efq.Trea- 
furer. 

A CORRECT LIST or NEW PUBLICATIONS in APRIL. 

AGRICULTURE: 
A Treatife on the Cultivation of Larch 
and Scotch Fir Timber, with Diredtions for 
Planting in various Soils and Situations, by 
W. Pontey, nurferyman of Huddersfield, 3s. 
Mawman. 
DRAMA. 
The Siege of Cuzco, a Tragedy, by Wm. 
Sotheby, efq. 2s. 6d. Wright. 
Speed the Plough, a Comedy, as performed 
at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, by 
Tho. Morton, efg. 2s. Longman and Rees. 
The Piccolomini, or the Ari Part of Wale 
302 lenficin, 
