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he became a member of tbe Council of State, and 

 was then of course obliged to reside at the Hague. 

 During the revolution, which immediately after- 

 wards occurred in Holland, he remained firmly at- 

 tached to the party of the Stadtholder, without, 

 however, yielding his unqualified approbation to all 

 its measures. The triumph of his own party was 

 even accompanied with circumstances which gave 

 him much concern, and embittered the latter period 

 of his life. He died of a violent pleurisy, on tbe 

 7th April 1789, at the age of sixty-seven years ; 

 and his remains were deposited in the tomb of his 

 ancestors, in St Peter's at Leyden. 



To a mind enriched with vast stores of knowledge, 

 and adorned with a taste at once elegant and refined, 

 Camper united the most benevolent affections, and 

 possessed all the virtues of social and domestic life. 

 His conduct in the several relationships of son, of 

 husband, and father, were in all respects exemplary. 

 His manners were remarkably placid, and bespoke 

 that habitual equanimity which formed the charac- 

 teristic quality of his temper, and which, amidst 

 strong sensibility to the affections of humanity, he 

 constantly studied to preserve. Nature had bestow- 

 ed upon him a dignified and graceful form, and a 

 remarkably animated and expressive countenance. 

 His voice, which was sonorous and flexible, was ex- 

 cellently adapted for public speaking. Besides all 

 this, he had a singular facility in acquiring languages, 

 and spoke fluently Latin, English, French, and Ger- 



