556 Lifi of Count Rum ford. 



advice and hearty commendation when he learned any- 

 thing about her which he could approve. 



The most important information given by the Count 

 in a letter dated from his new home is that he had 

 been presented to Bonaparte, as consul, and had re- 

 ceived from him permission to reside in France and 

 also to take his pension from Bavaria. Ever happy 

 to send his daughter pleasing tidings about the place 

 where he had spent so many useful and happy years, 

 and had received so many gratifying honors from the 

 former and the present potentate, the Count gives some 

 account of the then recent political changes there. The 

 King of Bavaria had acquired a great increase of terri- 

 tory and power from a treaty of peace with Austria. 

 He had received the Tyrol, with the Bishoprics of 

 Brixen and Trent, and all the countries bordering on the 

 Grisons, between the Lake of Constance and the Lake 

 of Guarda, near Verona. But he ceded Salzburg to his 

 brother, the Emperor of Germany. The Count ex- 

 presses the hope that he shall not himself experience 

 anything unfavorable in his appointments in these 

 changes. He had had the satisfaction of a kind letter 

 from the King, congratulating him on his marriage. 



Before the close of the year the Count begins to 

 complain of a confined and uncomfortable situation in 

 his domestic experiences. " He was withstood in his 

 plans, and met with continual contradictions." Not- 

 withstanding the little jarrings that had arisen, Madame 

 de Rumford this year sent the daughter a box of choice 

 millinery by some Boston ladies returning to their 

 country. 



The Count had at this time many visitors from 

 abroad, though none from England, free communica- 



