434 Life of Count Rumford. 



turcs. Gannett published two syllabusses, which the managers 

 objected to. On the i6th of February Rumford engaged Davy. 

 On March u Davy came. On the I5th of June the resigna- 

 tion of Garnett was accepted. On July 6, Rumford was au- 

 thi.ri/.ed to engage Dr. Young. 



" It is very clear to me that Count Rumford fell out with 

 Mr. Bernard, and with Sir John Hippesley. The fact was that 

 Rumford's idea of workshops and kitchen, industrial school, 

 mechanics' institution, model exhibition, social club-house, and 

 scientific committees to do everything, &c., &c., was much too 

 big and unworkable for a private body, and was fitted only for 

 an absolute wealthy government, and was going rapidly into 

 difficulties which, in 1803, led to the proposal to shut up the 

 affair and sell it off. Rumford, seeing he could not have his 

 way, went to Paris. Mr. Bernard and Sir John Hippesley 

 again took up the Institution, and by Davy's help carried it on, 

 without any workshops, or mechanics' institute, or kitchen, or 

 model exhibition, but with experimental researches, libraries, 

 and a mineralogical collection, which were, according to Rum- 

 ford's ideas, for the benefit of the rich, and by no means capa- 

 ble of doing any good to the poor, the object he had in view 

 in his society for the diffusion of useful knowledge." 



I shall not venture to question either the facts or the 

 opinions drawn from them in Dr. Jones's letter to me, 

 and shall wait with interest, as will so many others, for 

 his promised volume. Indeed, I have some indepen- 

 dent grounds to sustain his views. It may be men- 

 tioned here, however, that, as will soon be related, 

 Count Rumford left England, as it proved for the last 

 time, in May, 1802, his purpose and desire to return 

 there having been impeded by obstacles of war and 

 other circumstances. For at least a year, then, previous 

 to the time at which there seems to have been a pros- 

 pect of the failure of the Institution, his presence and 

 influence had been withdrawn. 



