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mendicants themselves, and to beget in them habits of indus- 

 try, cleanliness, and sobriety. 



In pursiiini^: the plans of oeconomy necessary to give tlie 

 greatest efficacy to these improvements in Bavaria, he was led 

 to devote his attention to the means of providing the greatest 

 quantity of nutriment with the least possible expense, and at 

 the same time pleasing and palatable. The oeconomy of fuel 

 also claimed his attention ; and to these laudable motives we 

 think the world is chiefly indelUed for the philosophical in- 

 vestigation of those important particulars so ably conducted 

 by count Rumford in his various Essays, and from which, in 

 former volumes, we have laid several interesting abstracts 

 before our readers. 



The estimation in which these services rendered to Bavaria 

 were held by the elector may be estimated by the marks of 

 honour conferred by him on the person who rendered them ; 

 who was created count of Rumford, knight of the orders of the 

 white eagle and St. Stanislaus ; and appointed chamberlain, 

 privy counsellor of state, and lieutenant-general in the service 

 of the duke of Bavaria, colonel of his regiment of artillery, 

 and commander in chief of the general staff of his army. 

 The monument erected at Munich in 1795, in commemora- 

 tion of his public services, of which our readers will find an 

 account in our fifth volume, pages 205 and 312, will serve to 

 hand down to posterity the remembrance of the gratitude of 

 those who erected it. 



To dwell upon the benefits resulting to society from pur- 

 suits like those in which the count has been occupied is al- 

 together unnecessary : the public kitchens in almost every 

 town and village in the kingdom are practical commentaries 

 upon them, v^^hich speak more to the feeling mind than could 

 the most elaborate eulogium. 



Of living characters propriety demands that we should say 

 but little. Before closing, however, this very brief sketch, we 

 must take notice of the zeal manifested by the Count for even 

 the future furtherance of the advantages resulting to mankind 

 by the oeconomy of fuel. For this purpose, on the 12th of 

 July 1796, he deposited with the Royal Society one thousand 

 pom ds stock in the three per cent, consols^ " to the end that 



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