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ing up arms against his native country." Some kindly 

 participant in the discussion called attention to the 

 Count's noble qualities, and to his devotion of himself 

 so laboriously to the service of his fellow-men. 



The daughter affirms that her father was deeply dis- 

 appointed at not being received as Minister of Bavaria 

 in England, as he would have greatly valued and en- 

 joyed the consideration which such an office would have 

 added to all his other distinctions. His chagrin was 

 very evident, though he exhibited no bitterness for his 

 discomfiture. She thinks that he was induced to plan 

 and promote the Royal Institution as a substitute for 

 occupation, and for claims to honor. In this latter 

 inference she may have been mistaken, for, as we have 

 seen, the Count was in correspondence with reference 

 to such an Institution with Mr. Bernard before his 

 appointment as ambassador. She is willing, however, 

 to recognize in the engrossing occupation which kept 

 him in England a providential favor to him, as the 

 change of administration in Bavaria, though not depriv- 

 ing him of honor and influence, had qualified his op- 

 portunities for devising and effecting his favorite meas- 

 ures. She thinks also that, as Bavaria had become 

 involved in Bonaparte's wars, the fate which befell her 

 father's two aides-de-camp might have involved him, had 

 he returned. 



The Count's German valet, Aichner, having been in 

 his service many years and proved himself capable and 

 faithful, had become very essential to his master, and 

 was generally his attendant on all his travels. The 

 Count had allowed him to marry, and the wife was of 

 use to him as a housekeeper. But when these servants 

 became the parents of six children, the Count's com- 



