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118 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
states, that, having heard of it from various persons, he
inquired the exact particulars from Swedenborg himself.
But we will give it in the queen’s own words, as recorded,
together with the anecdote of the Countess de Marteville,
by an author who cannot be suspected of any partiality
in favour of Swedenborg ; we mean M. Dieudonné Thie
bault, a French savant of the school of Voltaire, and
Professor of Belles Lettres in the Royal Academy of
Berlin. He was the author of a work translated into
English, and printed at London in 1805, under the title
of " Original Anecdotes of Frederick the Great, King
of Prussia." He represents queen Louisa Ulrica as
being, like her brother, a professed espritfort, carrying it
even to the avowal of atheism ; which we mention as
necessary to account for the contradictory remarks with
which she concludes her narration ; and because it makes
her a more unexceptionable witness to the fact she relates.
It occurred in 1758.
THE QUEEN OF SWEDEN’S TESTIMONY,
CONCE SWEDENBORG’S
INTERCOURSE WITH THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.
" I know not on what occasion it was, (says M.
Thiebault,) that, conversing one day with the queen on
the subject of the celebrated visionary, Swedenborg, we
(the members of the academy,) expressed a desire,
particularly M. Merian and myself, to know what
opinion was entertained of him in Sweden. I, on my
part, related what had been told me respecting him
by Chamberlain d’Hamon, who was still alive, and
who had been ambassador from Prussia both to Holland
and France. It was, ’ That his brother-in-law (the Count
de Marteville), ambassador from Holland to Stockholm,
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