78 THE EOYAL INSTITUTION. [CHAP. II. 



purpose to set out for Bavaria before the middle of 

 next month.' 



Writing to his daughter, June 25, Eumford says : ' I 

 did not propose to stay here long, but the Elector has 

 written commissioning me to transact some business 

 for him of a political nature in which he is much in- 

 terested.' 



On June 8 Sir C. Blagden writes to Sir Joseph Banks : 

 6 1 was preparing everything to set off for Germany, 

 and had even applied to Mr. Merry for a passport, 

 when Count Rumford told me he had received permis- 

 sion from the Elector to stay a few weeks longer at 

 Paris. This considerably deranges my plans.' 



On July 19 Eumford wrote to Sir Joseph Banks : 



Kue de Clichy, 356, July 19, 1802. 



MY DEAR SIR JOSEPH, The print 1 you sent me has afforded 

 me much amusement, and, even more than that, it has given 

 me real satisfaction. It is just that ' those who take up the 

 sword should perish by the sword.' I never had a doubt 

 who was the author of another print which certainly was 

 not designed to give me pleasure. Although it has long 

 been said, and I believe with truth, that those who render 

 themselves conspicuous by their superior genius, their 

 talents, and, above all, by their usefulness to society, must 

 necessarily be exposed to the shafts of envy and to the 

 hatred of all bad men, yet, much as I am desirous of de- 

 serving the approbation of mankind, so far from feeling 

 any secret satisfaction at seeing myself distinguished by 

 those miscreants, who may justly be considered as the ver- 

 min of society, I lament that I am not permitted to finish. 



1 Probably the caricature by Grilray of the Eoyal Institution and 

 Sir John Hippesley, published on May 23. Count Kumford was carica- 

 tured on June 12, 1800. 



