Life of Count Rumford. 365 



" 1799. Brompton Row, No. 45, 25th August. The 

 Count takes his daughter and only child in a coach and four 

 to Gravesend, to embark for America, in ship Minerva, Cap- 

 tain Turner, under protection of a Mr. and M's. Cushing." 



Near the day upon which the Count parted with his 

 daughter in England, Colonel Baldwin addressed the 

 following letter to her grandmother : 



"WoBURN, August 29, 1799. 



" DEAR MADAM, I have received your letter of the 

 i8th ult., but the distressing sickness which has for so long 

 time grievously afflicted my late dear companion in life, and 

 which ended in her dissolution the 8th inst., has prevented my 

 answering it until this time. However, the bills have been 

 ready for your order ever since the period for drawing them 

 commenced. In addition to all my troubles I have to lament 

 with you that we are not to see that man favored above all 

 men, your dear son, and his daughter, in this country, the pres- 

 ent season. For by two letters from the Countess to Mrs. 

 Baldwin, one dated the i6th day of March, and the other the 

 6th April last, which we received a? little before Mrs. Bald- 

 win's death, we were first made acquainted with this disappoint- 

 ment. Sally was very well at the date of both these letters, 

 and desired to be remembered to all her relations and friends. 



" I have this day received a letter from your son, the Count, 

 dated I4th March last, with a paragraph in it which seems to 

 belong to you as well as to myself, and notwithstanding there is 

 too much in it that will excite our regret, yet there is something 

 also to elevate and add satisfaction to the mind. [The para- 

 graph is as follows : (see letter on page 361.) The portion 

 quoted is l I will not attempt .... the time appointed.'] 



" I think, madam, that after this elegant and reasonable 

 apology, nothing that I can say will do any good. The pamph- 

 let which the Count alludes to is the plan of a new institution 

 for founding a society in the capital of the British dominions, 

 the principal management of which, I understand, is intrusted 

 to his care. There is another consolation for us, that although 



