1803. JEfr. 50.] COUNT KUMFOKD. 85 



Sir C. Blagden wrote to Eumford's daughter from 

 London, August 8, 1803: 



When my letter of last June was written I thought your 

 father pretty much fixed at Munich, and therefore ventured 

 to suggest to you that it might contribute to your happiness 

 if you were to be established at that Court. But I learn 

 since that the Elector has set him more at his liberty, and 

 that in consequence he intends to return to England this 

 autumn. Political difficulties may possibly stand in the 

 way of this journey, but he hopes to avoid them. I am still 

 as much at a loss as I was in June to answer your question 

 whether your father be going to marry. He is now, as I 

 told you in that letter, making the tour of Switzerland with 

 a very amiable French lady. But I have no reason to think 

 that they have any idea of matrimonial connexion. When 

 the Count comes to England she is to return to Paris ; at 

 least so he writes me word. 



He wrote to Sir Joseph Banks : 



Count Rumford has sent me a letter from Mannheim, 

 dated the 13th of September. He had applied for leave to 

 pass through France to England, but was refused. I sup- 

 pose the French Government thought that he too would 

 act the spy. 1 



He professes himself still uncertain whether he should 

 not attempt the journey by the north of Germany, but I 

 am myself pretty well satisfied that he will not. In the 

 meantime he desires me to assure you that he will certainly 

 contrive to send the paper on Heat before Christmas. The 

 King and Queen of Sweden were then at Mannheim. He 

 had been presented to and had dined with them. 



Later he wrote : 



Soho Square, September 29. 



My last letter from Count Rumford was of July 31, but 

 I have learned otherwise that he was at Geneva about the 

 1 Blagden himself had just been accused of being a spy. 



