Life of Count Rumford. 337 







Haslang, late Bavarian Minister, a note in French, 

 of which the following is a translation : 



"DOWNING STREET, ith September, 1798. 



"Lord Grenville presents his compliments to Count Haslang, 

 and has the honour to assure him of the pleasure with which he 

 learns that the matter in question, referred to in the note of the 

 Count, has been disposed of to his satisfaction. 



" Lord Grenville desires, likewise, to express to the Count his 

 regrets at having been deprived of the opportunity of communi- 

 cating with him on affairs of the court. By the note which, on 

 account of the absence of the Count, Lord Grenville sent to 

 his house, he had invited him to call upon him in order that 

 Lord Grenville might impart to him the decision of his Majesty 

 on the subject of the nomination of Count Rumford. But, 

 Count Haslang being absent, the same communication has 

 been made directly to Count Rumford." 



[Count Rumford to Lord Grenville.] 



" MY LORD, Notwithstanding the information and the 

 intimation your Lordship has caused to be communicated to 

 me by Mr. Canning, Under-Secretary of State in the Depart- 

 ment of Foreign Affairs, I conceive it to be my duty formally 

 to notify to your Lordship that His most Serene Electoral 

 Highness, the Elector Palatine, Reigning Duke of Bavaria, my 

 most gracious Master, having been pleased to appoint me to be 

 His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the 

 Court of His Majesty the King of Great Britain, I have come 

 to England in consequence of that appointment, and of the 

 Orders and Instructions of His most Serene Electoral Highness; 

 and am charged with a Letter from His most Serene Elec- 

 toral Highness to the King ; which Letter, agreeably to the 

 Instructions I have received, I ought to endeavour to obtain 

 permission to deliver to His Majesty with my own hands. 



"Being thus circumstanced, your Lordship will, no doubt, see 



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