Life of Count Rumford. 339 



His Majesty's Minister at that place was directed to communi- 

 cate to you privately, on your arrival there, the nature of the 

 Representation to be made by Mr. Paget. 



" As this course has been precluded by your actual arrival in 

 London, and as you have been apprized here of the circum- 

 stance in question, I conceive it will be more agreeable to you 

 that the substance of the Representation with which Mr. Paget 

 was charged, should be transmitted by you to the Elector, 

 rather than thro' any other channel. With this view I shall 

 acquaint Mr. Paget, that he may forbear to execute his In- 

 structions, except in so far as relates to the assurances to be 

 given to H. E. H. of His Majesty's constant and Invariable 

 Friendship, & of His Willingness to receive as His Electoral 

 Highness's Minister any Person whose nomination is not liable 

 to objections as strong as those which I have already stated." 



[Copy.] 



"DOWNING STREET, Sept r 21, 1798. 



" HoN ble ARTHUR PAGET. 



" SIR, Count Rumford being arrived in London and hav- 

 ing been apprized of the objections which His Majesty had 

 stated to receiving him in the Character of Minister from the 

 Elector of Bavaria; and having undertaken to transmit to His 

 Electoral Highness a statement of the grounds upon which 

 these objections are founded, I have written to him a letter, a 

 copy of which I herewith Inclose, and in conformity to which 

 you will be pleased to regulate your conduct on the subject of 

 the Instructions contained in my Dispatch of the I4th Instant. 



Count Rumford was then forty-five years old. A 

 portrait in oil, now in the possession of Joseph B. 

 Walker, of Concord, N. H., had been taken of him 

 at or about that time. It presents a man of fine appear- 

 ance, with imposing presence and beautiful features. 

 An engraving from it serves as the frontispiece to this 

 volume. 



Of course, therefore, the Count never exercised the 



