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pique of some enemy ready to do the Count a wrong in 

 his repute or in his feelings. He refers to the same 

 misfortune again in his Essay on the Management of 

 Fire. The register of his experiments on this subject 

 was so voluminous that he had left it at Munich, other- 

 wise it would have shared the fate of his other papers. 

 To the statement of this fact he subjoins the remark: 

 " I have many reasons to think that these papers are 

 still in being. What an everlasting obligation should 

 I be under to the person who would cause them to be 

 returned to me ! 



On his arrival in England, Lord Pelham, his very 

 warm friend, then Secretary for Ireland, gave Rum- 

 ford a pressing invitation to visit that Island. The 

 Count willingly responded, and went there in the 

 spring of 1796, spending there two months. He at 

 once employed himself in introducing into the hospitals 

 and workhouses of Dublin many important improve- 

 ments, and in heating a church by steam. He left there 

 a collection of models for a number of useful mechan- 

 ical inventions. His friend Pictet, who followed in his 

 track some four years afterwards, says that these inter- 

 esting objects were the first to engage his attention in 

 his visit to the Dublin Society, and he furnishes an 

 account of them for the BibliotJieque Britannique. 



Very marked attentions and honors were lavished upon 

 Count Rumford in Ireland. The Royal Academy there, 

 and the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and 

 Manufactures, elected him an honorary member. After 

 he had left the country he received an address of 

 thanks from the Grand Jury of Dublin, an official letter 

 from the Lord Mayor of the city, and one from the 

 Viceroy of Ireland. These documents, which I have 



