Star.
London, England, 1802-04-26 00:00:00

APRIL 21.

Fotracitoy and Rocncasa, Counfellors of State,
were admitted into the Hall of the Le 'Dative
Body in its fitting of the Both Germinal (April
so? to prefent a mefage from the Government
re peeing the law for the organization of public
inaruaion.

#0 U II clear prefented the projet of the law, which
he introduced by a fpeech of Tome length, in which
he explained the views of the Government in form-
ing this code of public education.
We lay before our Readers the outlines of this
plan.
By the firft general article, public feminaries
are to be divided into four dares, the primary
fchools, the fecondary fchools, the lyeek and the
fpecial fchools. The primary fchools are to be-
long to one or more communes in proportion to
their population and other local circumftances.—
The election of the teachers in thek feminaries is
to be veked in the Mayor and Municipal Magif-
trates, who are to provide for them a fuitable
lodging, to be furnifhed by the commune, and fix
the amount of their falary, which than be paid by
the parents of the children educated in there fchools.
It was the with of the Government that the fecon-
dary rebook thould be eftablithed at the expellee
of the Republic, but this arrangement, it was
found, would be attended with an inconvenient
i
degree of eipence. The ellablithment of onl two
hundred of there fchools colt two millions of B-
yres), and this number was confiderably in erior
to that of the Colleges under the Monarchy. Un-
der fuck circumftances it was found neceffary to
leave their eftablithment to individual induftry,
and to afford them that encouragement which
arifes from local gratifications and from the admit
Pion of the pupils who have di ftinguithed themfelves
at public trials into the fuperior fchools where edu•
cation and fubfiftence is gratuitous. Every fchool
is to be confidered as fecondary, whether eftablith-
ed by the communes or kept by individuals, where
the Latin and French languages, Geography,
Hiftory, and Mathematics are taugh.o loth-
tntion of this kind is to be formed Vithout the per-
=Mon of the Government.

In the Lycea (Lyeees) which are to replace the
Central Schools, Literature and Modern Hiaory
in all its departments, the Mathematical and Phyfi-
cal Sciences neceffary in the greatell number of
profeffions, and whatever pertains to a liberal edu-
cation. The inftruilion is to admit of modifica-
tions with refpeift to diverfities of climate, of in-
duftry, of habits, of relations with various foreign
nations. In every diftriA in which there is a
Tribunal of Appeal, there is to be at leafs one of
thefe Inßitutions. Into there Lycea there are to
be admitted the pupils introduced direaly by the
Government, the pupilsfrom the ficonciary facials,
who have dillinguillsed themfelves at public exhi-
bitions, and thole young people whole parents
!hall be willing to pay the expence attending
their education. The courfe of (ludic& is to em-
brace fix years. In each lyceum there is to be a
patron (prow:Aar) j a perfon to fuperintend the
fludies (tailor) ; and one who is to manage the
adminifiration of the eliablifhment. The Cu :sr
Cousut is to have the power of appointing three
Infpedors General for the whole of thefe eitablifh-
menu, whole office is to contra in examining the
ccoonomy of each, and to lay the refult of the ex-
amination before the Government. They are to
lay before the Chief Cantu' a lift of two candidates
for the appointment of Adminifirator or Profeffor;
the fubitquent vacancies are to be filled up by she
Profefrors of each ellabliffiment.
In the Special SchOoli the different degrees of
ingruition are to be completed. Medicine, Natu-
ral Hillary •Law sad all other ufsfig fees

are to be taught in there fchools in all their depth
and extent. The fehools of this defcription, now
in exigence, are to be continued. Ten new in-
Ritations for the Rudy of law are to be created,
and three are to be added to the prefent num-
ber of Medical Schools. Four new ones are to be
opened for Natural Hißory, Pity& ChemiarY,
and the higher branches of Mathematics.
Two fchools for the encouragement of the Me-
chanical Arts, and the Rudy of Chemitiry, as
conflated with the Arts generally, are to be
founded.

A Special Military Academy is to be formed,
which shall, however, not interfere with exilling
ellablifhments of this kind.

A fourth School for the Fin'e Arts is to be open-I
ed, and Government expreifes a determination to
grant every poffible encouragement to fchools of
this defcription in Belgium.
The nomination of Profeffors for the Special
Schools is in the firft inftance to be made by the
Chief Conful from two candidates fixed upon by
the Inftitute and the Infpeaors General. The
eleaioa is to be afterwards made by the Pro-
feffors from among three candidates. The Spe-
cial Schools are to be placed near the Luca,
and are to be governed by the fame Administra-
tive Council.

Five hundred pupils, of whom two hundred
fhall be chofen from the national dew: of the
Lycea, and three hundred from the foreign or
penfionary pupils, at a public exhibition, (hall be
admitted into the Special Military School, where
they !hall be fupported for two years at the ex.
pence of the Republic. There two years of in-
firuftion are to be reckoned as two years of fey-
vice, and thofe diftinguifbing themfelves Ihall ob-
tain the rank of officers.

Of fix thoufand four hundred penfionaries fup-
ported by the Republic, two thoufand four hun-
dred are to be taken from among the children of
foldiers or public funflionaries, and during ten 1
years from among the children of citizens of
the re-united departments, though they be not
foldiers or public funaionaries. The remaining
four thoufand four hundred are to be taken out of
the fuccefsful pupils of the fecondary fchools,
1 Two tenths of the pupils who have &tithed their
education at the Lycea shall be maintained at
the fpecial fchools at the ezpence of the Repub-
lic from two to four years.
The whole plan concludes by laying certain re-
gulations refpefting the edifices. which are to re-
ceive the name of a Lyceum, or Inllitute ; the
penfions to be given to Profeifors after zo years
fervice, or for bodily infirmities ; and the manner
in which donations for the fupport of public fe-
minaries are to be applied.
The additional expence of this new plan will be
about two millions of livres.