572 Life of Count Rumford. 



Miss Sarah notes that this was the only one of all her 

 father's letters to her which he signed otherwise than by 

 a simple 4< R." 



The following extract is from another letter written 

 by the Count, at Munich, to his daughter. 



" Everybody here of your old acquaintance enquires after 

 you. The three aides-de-camp I had when you were with me, 

 Taxis, Spreti, and Verger, have all been killed in the late wars. 

 The Bavarian troops, who have distinguished themselves by 

 their bravery on all occasions, have suffered greatly. Munich 

 grows larger every day. The English Garden is in the highest 

 beauty. 



" My health is perfectly good, and I am very happy. All 

 my late sufferings are forgotten. I feel as if just relieved from 

 an insupportable weight. God be thanked for my delivery ! 

 All your friends here have desired to be remembered to you. 

 Adieu, my dear Sally, make yourself as comfortable and happy 

 as you can, and be assured that I have at length quite recovered 

 my reason, and that I am now persuaded that all that has hap- 

 pened to me has been most fortunate for me. I am now a free 

 man." 



The Countess says that the above letters from Mu- 

 nich, written while her father was expecting her arrival 

 in Europe, were the most cheerful and healthful ones 

 which she had received from him since his disappoint- 

 ment at not being accepted as the Bavarian Ambassador. 



I defer to another chapter an account of the daugh- 

 ter's eventful experiences in her efforts to rejoin her 

 father. The lady concerning whom so many severe and 

 reproachful epithets have been used in the preceding 

 pages is entitled now to a more considerate notice. 



For the sake of following without interruption the 

 order'of the letters of Sir Charles Blagden and of Count 

 Rumford, no comments or information drawn from 



