448 Life of Count Rumford. 



It is observable that Pictet has no knowledge of, or, 

 at least, makes no reference to, any breach of the most 

 cordial relations between Rumford and his associates. 

 He sent with the letter to his co-editors an engraved 

 portrait of Rumford, which appears with it in the 

 Bibliotheque Britannique, and gives also a list of the 

 Count's papers published in the Philosophical Trans- 

 actions for 1781, 1786, 1787, 1792, 1795, 1796, 1797, 

 1798, and 1799. He likewise says that Rumford's 

 Essays have been translated into French, German, and 

 Italian. In the preface to Vol. XXXIV. of the Bib- 

 liotltique the editors claim that, their work has been 

 the medium of making known through France the illus- 

 trious career and the philanthropic labors of Rumford. 



The embargo still continuing and making intercourse 

 with the Continent from England difficult for travellers, 

 Pictet writes a second letter, dated from Brompton 

 Row, September i, 1801, in which he expresses him- 

 self very warmly as to the enjoyment he is finding as a 

 household guest of Rumford, though he is anxious to 

 return home. 



A third letter from Pictet* informs his fellow-editors 

 and us, that, notwithstanding the embargo, the Count, 

 disposed to pass some time at Munich, has obtained a 

 passport for himself by way of Dover, and has done 

 him the great favor of procuring for him the privilege 

 of accompanying him. Such indulgence had not been 

 granted for a long time. Their departure is fixed for 

 the 2oth of September. The friends are to separate for 

 their different routes at Calais. 



Pictet writes that he has been in England three 

 months, and that the visit has been the happiest inci- 



* Bibliothique Britannique, Vol. XXI. 



