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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832. Excerpt:... CHAPTER IV. Zimmermann's Account Of The State Of The King Of Prussia:--His Conversations With Him.--ZimmerMann Leaves Him.--Frederic's Letter To The Duchess Op Brunswick.--Mirabeau's Account Of The Last Days Of Frederic, And Of His Death. Herzberg's TesTimony Respecting His Patience And Laboriousness During His Illness.--Religious Letter Addressed To Frederic. Frederic's Will And Funeral. Mirabeau's Character Of Him. Zimmermann arrived at Potsdam on the 23d of June, and continued there till the 12th of July, paying the king two visits daily. In his first interview with Frederic, the latter asked him, "Doctor, can you cure me?"--"I can relieve your majesty," was the prudent reply of the physician. Even this last promise was difficult, however, to be accomplished, for Frederic frequently refused to take the doctor's prescriptions, while he was, at the same time, more unruly than ever respecting his diet. In his conversations also with Zimmermann, which have been published, he dwelt much more upon literature and indifferent subjects, than upon the symptoms and remedies of his own immediate complaints, which he would hardly allow the doctor to touch upon. Zimrnertriann'thus describes the appearance of the king, in his first'interview with him at Sans Souei:--t" When I entered the apartment of the king, I found him sitting in an elbowchair, with his back turned towards that side of the room, by which I had entered. He had on his head a large hat, very much worn, ornamented with a plume of feathers, equally ancient; and his dress consisted of a cloak'of sky-blue satin, all bedaubed, and tinged of a brownish yellow colour before, with Spanish s&uffi He wore boots, and rested one of his tegs, which was very much swelled, upon a stool, while1 tfae other hung down...