he first
utterance we have from him since those wild roamings about Oppeln and
Hilbersdorf Mill:--

KING TO WILHELMINA (at Baireuth; two days after Mollwitz).

"OHLAU, 12th April, 1741.

"MY DEAREST SISTER,--I have the satisfaction to inform you that we
have yesterday [day before yesterday; but some of us have only had one
sleep!] totally beaten the Austrians. They have lost more than 5,000
men, killed, wounded and prisoners. We have lost Prince Friedrich,
Brother of Margraf Karl; General Schulenburg, Wartensleben of the
Carabineers, and many other Officers. Our troops did miracles; and the
result shows as much. It was one of the rudest Battles fought within
memory of man.

"I am sure you will take part in this happiness; and that you will
not doubt of the tenderness with which I am, my dearest Sister,--Yours
wholly, FEDERIC." [_OEuvres,_ xxvii. i. 101.]

And on the same day there comes, from Breslau, Jordan's Answer to the
late anxious little Note from Pogarell; anxieties now gone, and smoky
misery changed into splendor of flame:

JORDAN TO THE KING (finds him at Ohlau).

"BRESLAU, 11th April, 1741. "SIRE,--Yesterday I was in terrible alarms.
The sound of the cannon heard, the smoke of powder visible from the
steeple-tops here; all led us to suspect that there was a Battle going
on. Glorious confirmation of it this morning! Nothing but rejoicing
among all the Protestant inhabitants; who had begun to be in
apprehension, from the rumors which the other party took pleasure in
spreading. Persons who were in the Battle cannot enough celebrate
the coolness and bravery of your Majesty. For myself, I am at the
overflowing point. I have run about all day, announcing this glorious
news to the Berliners who are here. In my life I have never felt a more
perfect satisfaction.

"M. 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 eloq