436 Life of Count Rumford. 



Sciences, esteemed the first in Europe during the monarchy, 

 constitute only Class I of the National Institute." 



He then proceeds : 



" We appear to be successful in mimicking the name alone, 

 for to have rivalled the establishment (if it were possible for us 

 to rival it ! ) it would have been necessary to have called forth 

 the exertions of every man among us conspicuously eminent in 

 the mathematics, practical astronomy, oratory, natural and 

 civil history, painting, poetry, music, &c., &c. To have re- 

 warded these, Parliament should have provided ample salaries ; 

 and to have prevented the whole from dwindling into a minis- 

 terial job, the members ought to have been elected by ballot. 

 Instead of this a puny imitation was adopted, and one professor 

 only appointed. True it is, there are few men in the kingdom 

 who could have been selected perhaps with greater propriety, 

 or who possess more various powers, than the gentleman in 

 question, Dr. Garnett, a man of considerable eminence in the 

 philosophical and literary world ; it is the inefficacy and nullity 

 of the plan only that is here arraigned, without intending to 

 throw the slightest blame on the original projector, who was 

 perhaps cramped in his views and impeded in his exertions." 



In a note to this last paragraph the writer communi- 

 cates the information, such as it is, which must relate to 

 the "quarrel," previously referred to. 



" Since writing the above, the editor has learned that many 

 disputes have taken place relative to the management of the 

 Royal Institution, in consequence of which Dr. Garnett has 

 found himself reduced to the necessity of resigning his situation. 

 He also hears with great sorrow that a breach has taken place 

 in the friendship that subsisted between the Count of Rumford 

 and Dr. Garnett ; but, as he is unacquainted with the particu- 

 lars, he will not presume to censure either of the parties in 

 question." * 



* An American editor selected from the five volumes of the London edition of 

 " Public Characters " materials enough to fill a single volume, the contents of which 



