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86 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
countries, that sincere and well-informed minds will no
longer doubt of their reality ; numerous well-known
instances might be adduced in confirmation of them : the
following transactions which may be depended on, will
perhaps prove not unacceptable to many of our readers.
"The senator, Count Hôpken, and the wife of Sweden
borg’s gardener, have confirmed me in the truth of the
two following transactions. After the decease of M. de
Marteville, certain people came to demand a debt of his
widow, of a considerable sum of money, that they said
was due to them by her deceased husband ; this she knew
was not a just demand, because she was certain it had
been paid during his life-time, yet could not tell where
the acquittance was put. In her trouble she applied to
Swedenborg, who informed her the next day where it was,
telling her he had spoken with her deceased husband,
who related to him where he had put this acquittance,
and that she would find it in the particular place he des
cribed. The acquittance was found in the place Sweden
borg had named. This account was universally known,
both at court and in Stockholm, and every one related it
according to his information. *
"Notwithstanding the number ofvisits that Swedenborg
received from people of all ranks, he would never receive
any particular ones, and more especially those of the
female sex, without one of his domestics being present ;
he also required that his visitors should speak in the
language of the country ; the reason for which he gave
was, I will have, said he, witnesses of my discourse and
conduct, that all pretences to malicious assertions and
scandal may be taken away.
"The following fact is a proof of what I have just
observed, and which I have from the wife of Swedenborg’s
gardener. Bishop Hallenius, the successor of Sweden
borg’s father, paying a visit to Swedenborg, the discourse
began on the nature of common sermons. Swedenborg
said to the bishop, among other things : You insert
things that are false in yours ;’ on this, the bishop told the
"
The other memorable transaction is that concerning the
queen of Sweden. See above p. 60.
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