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that reason he had commenced a correspondence with
Titley. On the ninth of June the prisoner was again
promised the intercession of the Court if he had anything to
add; but he refused.
Then on the following day, the 10th of June, sentence
was pronounced in a document “ which will for ever be
remarkable to all those that followed the proceedings on
account of the unheard-of audacity with which the truth
was trampled under foot.1 It is stated that Blackwell’s
guilt was established from other sources as well as from
his own words; that he had expressed himself in the
most criminal fashion concerning the change in the order
of succession obtaining in Sweden; that he had allowed
himself to be used as a spy, and that he had been suborned
for the overthrow of the Constitution.
In the meantime Blackwell had added something
concerning the Swedish regiments in the pay of England;
nevertheless, the promised intercession of the Court was
not forthcoming, nor was his own petition for mercy
listened to. The king confirmed the judgment of the
Court on the 15th of July.
Shortly before the execution of the sentence, Tessin had
several interviews with the prisoner at the latter’s request,
but he never disclosed their nature. In a last supplication
u in the sight of death,” Blackwell most solemnly revoked
all he had said in the agonies of torture ; he acknowledged
only the offer of a large sum of money to the king, and
his own correspondence with Titley. In various parts of
this document he alludes to a certain “noble person” whose
name he did not dare to mention; he further laid stress
upon the fact that he had unbosomed himself to two of hi&
ministers, and finally, in moving words, he begged for his
life and requested to be sent to the East Indies as ship’s*
1 Blackwellska R., p. 435*
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