272  Objervations an the New Planet, by Mr. W. Walker. [April 1, 
The improvements wich Citizen Brong-- 
niart has introduced into the fabrication of 
porcelains, and the good tafte which pre- 
fides in the forms employed by him, are 
equally remarkable. 
A fociety has been lately formed at Pa- 
ris, on a large fcale, entitled ** Socteté 
d@ Encouragement pour [Indufirie Nation- 
ale 3 or, a Society defigned to encourage 
the Efforts of National Indufiry.” The 
labours of this fociety, although fixed at 
Paris as its centre, will embrace the 
whole extent of the republic, and all the 
departments will fhare alike in the bene- 
fits which it pronofes to diftribute. Its 
objects and intentions are, .to collect from 
all parts difcoveries and ioventions ufeful 
or neceflary to the progrefs of the aits; 
to beftow annual encouragements, either 
by prizes, by gratuities; or, laftly, by 
taking a certain number of fubfcriptions 
for fuch memoirs as fhall explain the de- 
tail of new inventions ; to propagate in- 
ftruction, either by giving greater publi- 
city to ufeful difcoveries, or by drawing 
up manuals on different objects of the 
arts, or by inviting an afflemblage of the 
lights of theory with the refults of prac- 
tice, or, lafily, by conftructing at its own 
charge, and diftributing among the public 
in general, and particularly among the 
workfhops, fuch machines, inftruments, 
and apparatus, as are frequently loft for 
want of publicity, or of execution ; to di- 
reét certain effays and experiments calcu- 
lated to afcertain the utility of fuch mo- 
dels as are likely to produce great advan. 
tages 3 to relieve diftinguifhed artilts, un- 
fortunately reduced in their circumftances; 
to colleét and unite by new ties of affinity 
all fuch as by their fituation in life, their 
tafte, and their talents, feel an intereft in 
the progrefs of the arts, or may fuccefsfully 
contribute to it ; and, laftly, to become the 
centre of fimilar inftitutions, which are al- 
ready defired and called for in the principal 
manufacturing cities of the republic. To 
attain the propofed objects, a number of. 
committees will be formed, confifting of 
men the moft enlightened in the know- 
ledge of the arts; thefe committees will 
divide among. them ail the branches of 
induftry ; they will be authorized to re- 
ceive and to examine inventions and dif- 
coveries ; to propofe fubjects of prizes ; 
to pronounce on the competition of candi- 
dates ; and, in a word, to prepare the 
whole Jabour. A committee of correfpon- 
dence will be eftablifhed to maintain a 
conreétion throsgh all the cities of the 
republic; to collect faés, and diffeminate 
knowledge. .A committee of expence 
will be likewile appointed, confilting of 
citizens of eftablifhed charaéter, for aéti< 
vity and generous philanthropy, to regu- 
late the expenditure of monies, and which 
will, periodically, give an account of its 
labours. The minifter of the interior 
has’ been pleafed to offer a place of 
meeting, for the different departments 
of this fociety. It is propofed to have 
two general meetings in the year. Each 
member to contribute to it annually not 
le(s than thirty-fix francs. The minifter 
of the interior, and feveral members of the 
National Inititute, as well as of other 
learned focieties, have fet an example, by 
fubfcribing the firfi for an eftablifhment, 
all the efforts of which will conduce to 
the public profperity, and will bea monu- 
ment raifed by the national fpirit to the- 
glory of French induftry. This fociety held 
a general fitting, in which, after having 
agreed upon the plan of their organization, 
they nominated Citizen CHaPTAL, Minif- 
ter of the Interior, Prefident; and Fro- 
CHOT, Prefect of the Department of the 
Seine, Vice prefident; they likewife ap- 
pointed the Committees of Difbu:fements, 
of the Mechanical Arts, of the Chemical 
Arts, of Agriculture, of the A:ts rela- 
tive to Domeftic Economy, and of thofe- 
relative to Commerce. 
[The following Communication came to 
hand too late to appear in its proper places 
and we were unwilling todefer it on account 
of the interefting nature of its contents. ] 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
bisa rae amongft my aftronomical 
A" friends as well as in the public in ge- 
neral a very high degree of folicitude re- 
{fpecting the appearance, fituation, «and 
other attendant circumftances of the newly- 
difcovered planet, the Ceres Ferdinandia, 
I think it right to fend to your ufeful 
Magazine the lateft fituation amongft - 
the neighbouring ftars, that the month 
will admit; that- your readers may be 
enabled by a common nighi-glafs, or a 
pocket telefcope anda little attention, to 
afcertain it. Ifan imaginary line is drawn 
from the ftar Theta Leonis, through Beta 
or the Lion’s ‘Tail, and continued tothe — 
fame diftance to the left a little above that 
termination, aclufter of ftars will be feen _ 
forming an equilateral triangle; the two 
weftern-moft ftars being of the fourth 
magnitude, and the other point of the tri 
angle formed by a ftar of very minute 
fize. This laf far forms alfo a fmaller 
equilateral triangle with two ftars of mi- 
nute fize, nearer to it than the larger ek 
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