.Ex. 30-40.] COUNT KUMFORD. 41 



In 1788 the Elector made him Major-Greneral of 

 Cavalry and Privy Councillor of State, and he was 

 placed at the head of the war department. 



On May 29, 1789, he was elected a foreign honorary 

 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 and he was made Lieutenant-General of the Bavarian 

 Armies and received the command of a regiment of 

 artillery. 



In 1791, in the interval between the death of the 

 Emperor Joseph and the coronation of Leopold II., the 

 Elector of Bavaria was one of the Vicars of the Empire, 

 and he made Sir Benjamin Thompson a Count of the 

 Holy Roman Empire, and gave him the Order of the 

 White Eagle. 



Early in the following year the wife of Count Rum- 

 ford, who had been a great invalid, and who had lived 

 with her son by her first husband and with her daughter, 

 the child of Rumford, died at the age of 52. Her own 

 property had given her every comfort that her ill 

 health required. 



At the end of this year Count Rumford was in cor- 

 respondence with his early friend Colonel Baldwin, 

 through whom probably for some time previously he 

 had sent money to his mother. He wrote to Colonel 

 Baldwin from Munich, January 18, 1793 : 



You could hardly conceive the heartfelt satisfaction it 

 would give me to pay a visit to my Dative country. Should 

 I be kindly received ? Are the remains of party spirit and 

 political persecutions done away ? Would it be necessary 

 to ask leave of the State ? 



It is possible you may see me at Woburn before you are 



