Life of Count Rumford. 537 



He writes from the 



" ROYAL INSTITUTION, 15* March, 1801. 



" Bavaria has made an advantageous peace with France, but 

 has been in danger of being given to the Emperor of Germany. 

 Professor Pictet of Geneva, a great friend of mine, has paid me 

 a visit off and on for some time, and I am now about going into 

 my own house at Brompton to receive him." 



The Count describes this house to his daughter in 



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rapturous terms, and regrets that she is not there to see 

 it. In September following, he proposes to set out for 

 Bavaria, the Elector having kindly invited him to return, 

 with assurances of his warm friendship, and that, though 

 many salaries and pensions have been suspended through 

 the war, his shall be paid. 



Accordingly he sets out in that month, taking but 

 little clothing and few effects with him, as, if the Elec- 

 tor will excuse him, he does not intend to stay long, 

 the Royal Institution still requiring his oversight. Ac- 

 companied by Professor Pictet as far as Calais, who 

 there left him to go to Geneva by way of Paris, the 

 Count, having travelled some fifteen hundred miles, 

 reaches Munich by way of Mannheim, where he writes 

 as follows : 



"MUNICH, 2d October, 1801. 



u MY DEAR SALLY, I arrived here late last evening, and 

 even this morning went to pay my respects to the Elector, who 

 received me with all imaginable kindness. He appears to have 

 plenty of business for me in an Academy he is about building, 

 but as things are not yet in readiness to begin I am excused 

 from remaining ; instead of which I return to England to put 

 an end to the work begun there, that of the Royal Institution. 

 I owe so much to the Elector, it is my duty to do all in my 

 power to give him satisfaction. Besides, he says I shall be 

 President of the Academy when done." 



