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der. Sir Joseph Banks. Naval Service, and Experiments. 



Made Under-Secretary of State. Loyalists in England. 

 Judge Curwen. Dr. Gardiner. President Laurens. Dis- 

 astrous Intelligence. Thompson commissioned as Lieutenant- 

 Colonel for Service in America. Arrival in Charleston, S. C. 



In Action there. Arrival in New York. His Command. 



Recruiting. Presentation of Colors. Severe Charges 

 against Thompson. Colonel Simcoe's Reflections. Returns 

 to England. Promotion. On Half-Pay for Life. Agency 



for Loyalists. . . . . . . . . .100 



CHAPTER IV. 



Thompson receives Permission to travel on the Continent. 

 Gibbon and Laurens. Meeting with Maximilian de Deux 

 Ponts. Intercourse with French Officers. Visits Munich. 



Goes to Vienna. Returns, by Invitation of the Elector, to 

 Munich. In England. Knighted. Permitted to enter the 

 Service of the Elector. His Career and Services in Bavaria. 



Offices and Honors. Schemes. Essays. Years of Prepa- 

 ration. Work-Houses at Mannheim and Munich. Military 

 Reforms. Soldiers' Gardens. Mendicancy : its Abuses, 

 Measures for its Removal. Wise and Efficient Plans. Seiz- 

 ure of Beggars. Experiments on Food. Minor Schemes of 

 Reforms. Sickness. Travels in Italy and Switzerland. 

 Visits to Hospitals and Poor-Houses. Returns to Munich. 

 Convalescence. Writes his Essays. Goes to England. 

 Economical Schemes there. Publishes his Essays. Visits 

 Ireland. Sends for his Daughter. . . . . . 1 5 j 



CHAPTER V. 



Count Rumford's Family in America. Correspondence with 

 Baldwin resumed. Prepares for his Daughter. Correspond- 

 ence of Sarah Thompson. Friendship of President Willard of 

 Harvard College. Thompson's Provision for his Mother. 

 Sends over his Essays. Intention to visit America. Auto- 



