1800. } 
inftitutes in Paris and in the depart- 
ments. | 
LETTER XIV. 
TUTE. 
The plan of ‘this inftitution compre- 
hends all the arts and {ciences partitioned 
among the former different academies, as_ 
likewile logic, ethics, and political econo- 
my. There are 144 members in Paris, 
and an equal number of affociates in the 
departments. The Inftitute may like- 
wife admit eighty foreign aflociates ; but 
they have not yet been choten. 
vided into fections and clafles, of which 
Mr. B. gives a circumftantial account, 
with a lift of the names of all the mem- 
bers of the firft clafs. Each clafs aflem- 
bles twice in each decade, and elects a 
prefident and two fecretaries, whofe of- 
fice lafts fix months. On'the fifth day 
of the firft decade of each month, the three 
clafles affemble together, and the oldeit 
prefident of them is prefident of the whole 
Inftitute. Four times a year, onthe 15th 
of the months of Vendemiaire, Nivofe, 
Germinal, and Meffidor, public meetings 
are held. Each clafs annually propofe 
prize-queftions ; and in thefe folemn mect- 
ings the anfwers are made known, and 
the premiums diftributed. “The three 
united feétions of painting, fculpture, and 
architecture, chufe the pupils, who. are- 
fent to Rome at the expence of the repub- 
lic.’ The Inftitute fhould likewife chufe 
two young men to travel for three years 
in France and foreign countries, for the 
purpofe of fiudying rural economy. - Six 
members of the Infiitute itfelf are alfo to 
travel at the public expence; but, proba- 
bly from want of money, none of thete lite- 
rary expeditions has yet been undertaken. 
On hif arrivalin Paris Mc.B received from 
the then prefident of the phyfical and mathe-. 
matical clafs a printed card, on one fide of 
which was, ‘* Citoyen Buggé, membre et 
commiffaire de T’Infiitute National des Sct- 
ences et des Arts; on the other fide, << Le 
Citoyen Buggés commifjaire des poids et me- 
fures, envoyé de Dannemark.” As long 
as he ftaid in Paris, he had free admiffion 
to all the meetings of the Inftitute and of 
the different cafles ; and highly praifes the 
politenefs and friendfhip of the moft cele- 
brated members towards him. The library 
contains about 16,000 volumes, ameng 
which are the Memoirs and Tranfactions of 
ci devant French Academies, and of fo- 
reign literary focieties. There is. like- 
wife a collection of machines and models. 
Mr. B. gives an account of fome of the 
_ meetings at which he was. prefent. Once 
an eflay by a certain conful Felix was 
4 
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The NATIONAL INSTI- 
Neglected Biography. 
Te is di-». 
453 
Defeffartz, the phyfician, inquired 
read, 
‘who was the author; and when the prefi- 
dent named him, the former exclaimed 
with the jovial mien peculiar to him, Fe- 
ix qui fcripfit, infelix qui audivit ! When 
a foreigner or a Frenchman fends any of 
his works to the Inftitute, the prefident,’ 
always appoints a learned: member, well 
verled in the branch of {cience of which 
he treats, to.examine it ; he makes concife 
extracts from it, which he reads to the 
Inftitute. Thefe abridgments are always 
well and impartially written; and give a 
faithful {ketch of the contents of the 
work, 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
' Beg leave once more to call the atten- 
tion of your numerous readers, to the 
fubject of Neglected Biography. JI have 
to thank many of your correfpondents for, 
fome interefting and valuable communi- 
cations, in anfwer to my occafional in- 
quiries; but I have to lament, that many 
of thofe inquiries flill remain unnoticed 5 
and that the fubjeéts of them, though men — 
deferving of memorial, are likely to pals 
away into the gulph of oblivion, without 
the flighteft record to fhew, that == 
_ 6 Such men were, 
_ €¢ And were moft precious to us.”* 
T have endeavoured fo recover the nameg 
of many. eminent charafters, and to pre- 
ferve the memory of them-in my BioGra- 
PHICAL DicrioONnary, recently pub- 
lifhed ; and it affords me fatisfaction to 
reflect, that my inquiries have enabled 
me todo fome jufice to fo many worthy 
characters; but {till 1 am confcious, that 
there are fome errors and omiffions in that 
work, which I earneftly with to fee filled 
up: and poffibly there may be many er- 
rors, which your correfpondents will enable 
me to correct. I, therefore, requeft again 
communications on the fubjeét of neglested 
Biography, and fuch further information 
as may render my work more complete, 
from your intelligent readers. 
And am, your’s, &c. 
London, May 15. jy. Warxins, 
EE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
nal HE following is a regeipt for making 
vinegar; and, in my opinion, is not 
lefs cheap and fimple’in its ingredients 
and method of preparation, than any you 
have inferted in your Magazine. I have 
feen it frequently tried; and, when pro- 
petly conduéted, never knew it fail. 
To 

