de Camas is here, very ill for the last two days; attack of fever--the Doctor hopes to bring him through,"-- which proved beyond the Doctor: the good Camas died here three days hence (age sixty-three); an excellent German-Frenchman, of much sense, dignity and honesty; familiar to Friedrich from infancy onwards, and no doubt regretted by him as deserved.

The Widow Camas, a fine old Lady, German by birth, will again come in view.

Jordan continues:-- "One finds, at the corner of every street, an orator of the Plebs celebrating the warlike feats of your Majesty's troops.

I have often, in my idleness, assisted at these discourses: not artistic eloquence, it must be owned, but spurting rude from the heart...." Jordan adds in his next Note: "This morning (14th) I quitted M.de Camas; who, it is thought, cannot last the day.

I have hardly left him during his illness:" [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xvii.