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receive such information as would enable him to give 

 a clear, authentic, and satisfactory account to theN 

 sovereign who had entrusted him with the manage- 

 ment of his affairs. 



The day but one after, Lord Grrenville shortly 

 answers that * he conceives it will be more agreeable 

 to Count Kumford that the substance of the represent- 

 ation with which Mr. Paget was charged should be 

 transmitted by Count Rumford to the Elector rather 

 than through any other channel.' 



The same day a despatch to this effect was written 

 to the Hon. Arthur Paget at Munich. 



No other notice was taken of Count Eumford's 

 appointment. He did not return to Munich, and the 

 following year his master, the Elector Charles 

 Theodore, died. 



The thoughts of Eumford, when rejected as minister 

 of Bavaria, were directed to his native land. He thus 

 wrote to his friend Baldwin in America : 



London, September 28, 1798. 



I arrived in this city last week from Germany, and I 

 expect to be able to remain here several months. I have, 

 indeed, some hopes of being able to pay yon a visit in 

 America in the spring. But these hopes, though apparently 

 well founded, may easily be disappointed, for there are 

 several events, none of which are very improbable, that 

 would render it impossible for me to be absent from Europe 

 next year. It is, however, my fixed intention to pay a visit 

 to my friends in America as soon as ever it shall be in my 

 power, which most probably will be in the course of a year 

 or two. I have even a scheme of forming for myself a 

 little quiet retreat in that country, to which I can retire at 





