588 Life of Count Rumford. 



was instantly killed by a shot from the pistol of the 

 Prince, in the main apartment which had witnessed the 

 scientific labors of Rumford.* 



In 1838 two streets were opened in the quarter of 

 Paris which takes, in the former suburb ; one of them 

 received the name of Rumford, the other the name of La- 

 voisier, in order, as a French friend writes to me, " pour 

 consacrer la memoire de deux savans, qui s'ctaient 

 unis a la meme epouse." The Boulevard Malesherbes 

 now traverses the Rue Lavoisier, and has supplanted 

 the Rue de Rumford. 



Deferring any reference to the Count's mode of life 

 at Auteuil till I can quote his daughter's account of it, 

 when, after considerable difficulty, she joined him there, 

 I am glad again to avail myself of the letters of Sir 

 Charles Blagden for information of interest. The ear- 

 nest desire of the Count for his daughter's companion- 

 ship in his loneliness, and his anxiety and disappoint- 

 ment at the protracted delay of her arrival, have already 

 been fully related. 



The Countess -had welcomed her father's summons, 

 and her longing to exchange the weariness of her vacant 

 mode of life for foreign scenes overcame any dread she 

 might have of an ocean voyage, amid the alarms and 

 annoyances of war. She left her home early in the 

 summer of i8ii,f and, after a visit at Philadelphia, 



* Engravings of the house and of the room are given in the Illustrated London 

 News of January 2i, 1870. 



j- I have before me in manuscript a poetical piece which has never been published, 

 written by Miss Elizabeth Townsend, of Boston, a friend of the Countess, on the 

 occasion of her voyage. The Rev. Dr. Cheever, in his collection of American 

 poems, publiahes some of Miss Townsend's pieces, and in a note to one of them says, 

 "It is equal in grandeur to the Thanatopsis of Bryant, and it will not suffer by com- 

 parison v/ith the most sublime pieces of Wordsworth or of Coleridge." I copy a few. 



