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pistol is unloaded! ” With this forced loan the visitor,
formerly a poor officer, equipped himself, and thus succeeded
in overcoming the prejudice of his rich father-in-law and
winning his bride. The money was returned with interest,
and Seton became the intimate friend of the family. He
also acted as banker to the king. He died in 1786,1
one year after his having received the patent of nobility.
Turning now to eminent Scottish merchants in other
parts of Sweden, we first come across the name of
Magnus Dublar or Dunbar, a Scot who carried on
business at Ronneby. He became the father of a rather
famous man, the clergyman Casten Rönnow—so called
1 Stranger still are the adventures of one of his heirs, Alexander.
He and his brother Patrick (later a Doctor of Medicine) were sons of
Alexander Seton of Preston, a nephew of George. Alexander became,
like a second Don Carlos, desperately enamoured of his stepmother, so
much so that his mind seemed to be unhinged. The father therefore
took him to England and put him into Bedlam. After a time the
medical men pronounced him cured, but all his efforts to regain his liberty
were baffled by the Governor. Only when a new one came in his place
he obtained money and his freedom. But no sooner had he made his
appearance on the road, when an unknown man took him to a remote
vicarage, where he was again kept a prisoner until the priest died. Then
he wandered about for some time, avoiding the abodes of men, pacifying
his hunger with the flour ground by the miller, which he kneaded into
dough with rain-water and dried in the sun. At last he reached a small
harbour whence a ship took him to Sweden. After an imprisonment of
eighteen years, he arrived in Stockholm in the year 1826, now sixty-two
years old. His first care was to procure an advocate to urge his claims
as the co-heir of old Seton. In this he succeeded after his identity had
been established by Count de la Gardie, but the lawsuit outlasted his
life. He died in 1828. During his short stay in Stockholm he greatly
exerted himself for the edition of the Svenska Diplomatarium; he also
published some poems. Gentle and melancholy his mind remained.
The noble family became extinct in the direct line with his brother
Patrick, who died in 1837. The family seat, Ekolsund, passed into the
hands of Gen. C. Adlercreutz, who had married a daughter of Patrick
Seton (Biog. Diet.).
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