200 THE EAELY HISTORY OF [CHAP. IV. 



Differences with the managers had nothing to do 

 with Count Eumford's departure from London. The 

 immediate cause is seen in his letter to his daughter 

 from Munich on October 2, 1801. He had promised 

 the new Elector to return as soon as the Koyal Institu- 

 tion was in order. Dr. Young states that the supe- 

 riority of the climate of France was partly, if not 

 entirely, the cause of his leaving England. Probably 

 the influence of Madame Lavoisier had its full effect. 



Count Eumford left England for Munich on May 9. 

 It is quite certain that when he left he intended to 

 return to his Institution and his house, to his house- 

 keeper and his servants in Brompton Row. It is 

 equally certain that he no longer was on terms of 

 intimacy with Mr. Bernard, who was still a visitor of 

 the Institution, and that he kept up no correspondence 

 during his absence with the other managers regarding 

 his Institution except with Sir Joseph Banks. Before 

 he had left England one month those objects which 

 he had considered likely to bear the best fruits at the 

 Institution were marked for destruction, and they 

 gradually withered away. 



The state of the funds was the cause of the imme- 

 diate change. The bills due were 3;900., the balance 

 at the bankers' was 3,1 80. The arrears came to 

 4,960L 10s., but these were chiefly bad debts. 



In 1799 the income was 6,379. ; in 1800, 11,047. ; 

 in 1801, 3,474^.; whilst in 1802 it was only 2,9991. 

 Moreover the expenditure was increasing. 



Meeting after meeting was held in May 1802 to 

 make arrangements for reducing the expenditure in 



