Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-04-21

one hundred wears 20 come Put tho sax
oas and the French adop, no such pro
7 cessos, and the latter have far transcribed
( their maSto.s-m the beauty OF their fabric
We shall say nothing about tho p-cpa
ring mou'dug, baking, painting. varntsh
nag gliding, aud tie like. These consti-
tute, as every one understands, a very
complicated series of processes, which,
though delicate, and requiring art, taste,
and experience, are n6w well known 70 be
mo more mysteries, than any other com
/ phcaicd process. They are possessed. Do
different degrees, by thousands Of arii-
Gers 10 all countries where this fabric is
MAIDS.
il has been made in China from time
ilnaaemoual. The first authentic annals,
in relation to it, date about the fifth ceutu
ny Of our era. The Chinese used to make
the article more beautiful IN former times
THIS. instead Of being attributed to their
being retrogade 10 skill, as has been idly
supposed, is clearly owing TO the great de
mand, since the English and Americans
have opened such an extensive trade with
them in the article. The demand has IN
creased beyond the supply: aud they have
yielded to the consequent temptation TO
iabrcate more easily wrought and inieri-
or article.
The finest and the greatest quantity is
manufactured IA kug-te-C Chin; though a
considerable amount is made in tho pro-
vince Of Quang-tong, or, as we call 1t,
Canton; and in Fokion The inferiority
of the latter to the former, Is probably
owing 10 the inieriorily Of the materials.
Porcelain is also made in Japan, 10
Vienna, IN Berlin, and a very beautiful
kind 10 Dresden. We doubt not. most Of
our readers are aware of the touchiug and
beautiful story Of Miss Edseworlh, turn
lag upon premium offered by the King Of
Prussia for the handsomest deslgI Of
painting for Il particular piece of porcelain
and iaiqmtously gained by a Jew from
the real designer, poor and beautiful
GIRL.
In Italy there are manufactures of por-
ceIaln at Naples and Florence. 1t Tas
wrought at many places 10 France But,
before the time of Beamur, Of kind very
inferior to that OF Dresden, which had
bcea carried 10 the next degree Of perlec
lion to that of the Chinese. Reanur dis
covered in France carihs so much like the
laoLn and petunsee Of China, as 60 make
equally beautiful ware The article which
there answers for kaolln, ls white argyll
laceous earth, filled with mica-and the
petunsee Is a hard quartzose stone. Rea-
muir made many discoveries, touching the
iuslbiity and the relative proportions re
quisite for harshness, Gncness and semi |
transparency. Mouligny, and especially |
Mdcquer, carried these Improvements still /
larthcr---and the royal establishment of
Seve. or Scves, on the road from Paris 10
Versailles, became, as It were, national |
school-in which, loI beauty, bnllance,
taste in painting, and elegance Of the fin
ish. nothing in the world can compare
With the article there wrought. We have
had an opportunity TO examine complete
services of this ware, and were sensible |
that 10 description would give an adequate
idea of its beauty. Ii must be seen TO be
valued Alright This splendid fabric is
now despatched 70 orders from lhe opulent
and tasteful in all countries. The cstab-
hshmcut gives employment to a vast mum
Der of hands, and in France, labor Is
connaratiyely high. The design for pam
ing and enamellng operate more eliica-
ciously. than a thousand inert academies, !
with their premiums. 10 elicit taste, 10 pro-
duce emulation IN lnyeniion-lud 10 The /
noblest walk. and IN de highest ends 10
cultivate the fine arts. France derives |
more real glory from lhe Scvcs mlnuldc
tosy dian from al! her trumphal arches. !
aud all her victories purchased by blood
aud tears. Ii Is a source OF uatiOnol
wealth and emulation ~ the walk OF the
Gna arts. What triumph Of at can be
nroudcr. Than 10 convert masses Of earth
into the most beautiful fabric that ,he lma
pipation can picture-iOrmng the basi
Of the most splendid coiorlngs that art can
prepare? Whoever orders the article.
can sketch the landscape Of hts own DOM
icie, paint his own river, brooks, grounds
cattle, horses and dogs, and have them
returned TO HIM. wrought IA briliance To-
vic with Cinderella coach; and ia beauty
and fidelity Of painting, which marks the
Improvement of modern times, and more
than all, of tie French IN THIS walk.
The next question 10 be settled Is, have
we 10 thls place the materials for this fab
rc, 50 as TO be easily and cheaply acces-
sible! Thus immense valley is well known
10 be aliuvial, Of secondary formation; a.
BIOLOGISTS say, every where bounded y I
primitive formation, aud, Of course co"
tanning all the gradatioBs and conbina- /