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68 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
itself to all the earth. I questioned him also concerning
the letter that was written by the queen of Sweden to
her brother the deceased Margrave ; he replied, much of
the common report is true, and part of it not ; but
perhaps the whole of the matter is better known at Berlin
than in other parts. I then asked him whether it was
true, as I was informed it was, that when he was at
Gottenburg, ( a town about sixty Swedish miles from
Stockholm,) he had foretold to his friends, three days
before the arrival of the post, the particular hour of the
beginning of the great fire that happened at Stockholm ;
to which he replied, that it was exactly true. I put to
him also many questions concerning Charles the XII.
of Sweden, and received surprising answers from him on
that head.
" I shall now proceed to relate to you, Sir, what I have
seen and heard of him. Fifteen years ago, Swedenborg
was about to depart for Sweden, and desired me to procure
him a good captain, which I did. I made the agreement
with a person named Dixon. Swedenborg’s effects were
carried on board the vessel ; and as his apartments were
at some distance from the port, we took for that night a
chamber at an inn near it, because the captain of the
vessel was to come and fetch him in the morning. He
went to bed ; and I went to sit in another room with the
master of the house, with whom I was conversing. We
both heard a remarkable noise, and could not apprehend
what it could be ; and therefore drew near to a door,
where there was a little window that looked into the
chamber where Swedenborg lay. We saw him with his
hands raised towards heaven, and his body appeared to
tremble. * He spoke much for the space of half an hour,
but we could understand nothing of what he said, except
that, when he let his hands fall down, we heard him say
with a loud voice, My GOD ! But we could not hear
* It may be very easily supposed, that when Swedenborg had
a very full and interior communication with spirits, the effects of
such communication would be visible in his external look and
deportment. As, however, he lived much in retirement, these
effects could not, of course, be often seen by others.
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