232 Life of Count Rumford. 



Count himself sent several copies to his friends in this 

 country. A fifth edition of three volumes appeared in 

 London in 1800. In 1802 a fourth volume was added, 

 containing many of Rumford's Philosophical Papers, 

 and this was issued again the next year. His Essays 

 on the Treatment of Pauperism were published sepa- 

 rately in London in 1851, and again in 1855. His 

 works were at once translated into German and French. 

 During this period of his stay in England, making 

 excursions to Ireland and Scotland, as we learn from his 

 daughter's narrative, the Count was in the full enjoy- 

 ment of his social and scientific distinction. Un- 

 doubtedly this was to himself the most satisfactory 

 period of his life. His fame was now established on 

 claims and services which partook equally of scientific 

 and philanthropic contributions to the welfare of hu- 

 manity. Farther on in his career we shall find that an 

 element of embitterment and antagonism entered into 

 his experience and his relations with some of his con- 

 temporaries and scientific associates, and led him to nar- 

 row the range of his intercourse, even to a degree of 

 isolation and self-seclusion. But while in England on 

 this visit, and on the even more important one which he 

 made two years afterwards, he seems to have found an 

 unqualified pleasure in his work in the appreciation of 

 it by the public, and in the respect and attentions ex- 

 hibited towards him by very many persons of the highest 

 social rank. He certainly was fond of such attentions. 

 He was deferential to rank and station, and craved inter- 

 course on confidential terms with many of the nobility, 

 no doubt persuaded that his talents and the uses for 

 which he employed them made him a peer of those 

 whom birth, fortune, or circumstances had lifted in the 



