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other should express the pleasing consciousness in imparting a 

 deserved remuneration as a substitute for alms. The Institu- 

 tion once had two thousand poor people in its charge, and now 

 has fourteen hundred. The House of Industry contains from 

 twelve to fifteen hundred persons, of whom several hundreds 

 have there for the first time learned to recognize the honorable 

 employment of labor. 



u It is impossible, gentlemen, to tell you all which one finds 

 to admire about this excellent man. If you would judge how 

 an exquisite taste may be combined with a most delicate sensi- 

 bility to make our fellow-creatures happy in their relaxations 

 after fatigue, you have but to visit the English Garden at 

 Munich. Would you see a productive activity follow a waste- 

 ful sterility in a park, you have but to examine the farm of that 

 Garden, or the Military Garden, or the Veterinary School. 

 These establishments are as honorable to the Sovereign who 

 allowed them as to the man who called them into being. 

 Would you conceive the method of reducing to order the most 

 complicated arrangements, and seizing upon the results from 

 such various establishments, and inspecting them with a rapidity 

 which holds you as 'by enchantment, just take the trouble to 

 look at the pictures of the Military Academy, of the Institute, 

 and of the House of Industry, and at the originals of those 

 pictures. Would you then have the least misgiving of the ex- 

 periments and the success of Count Rumford, of which you 

 have given an account ? 



" But one must hurry to go to Munich to do justice, after a 

 thorough inspection, to the candor and the scrupulous exactness 

 of the author of these Essays. 



" I have the honor to be, &c., 



" A. JOLY, D. M." 



While the Count had been publishing his Essays in 

 England, he had sent copies of the advanced sheets to 

 his friend F. I. Hertuch in Weimar, who with the 

 author's knowledge and approbation, and with help 



