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TESTIMONY OF THE QUEEN OF SWEDEN. 119
having died suddenly, a shopkeeper demanded of his
widow the payment of a bill for some articles of drapery,
which she remembered had been paid in her husband’s
life-time that the widow, not being able to find the
shopkeeper’s receipt, had been advised to consult with
Swedenborg, who, she was told, could converse with the
dead whenever he pleased ; that she accordingly adopted
this advice, though she did so less from credulity than
curiosity ; and at the end of a few days Swedenborg in
formed her, that her deceased husband had taken the
shopkeeper’s receipt for the money on such a day, at such
an hour, as he was reading such an article in Bayle’s
Dictionary in his cabinet ; and that his attention being
called immediately afterwards to some other concern, he
put the receipt into the book to mark the place at which
he left off; where in fact it was found, at the page des
cribed.’ The queen replied, that though she was but
little disposed to believe in such seeming miracles, she
nevertheless had been willing to put the power of Swe
denborg, with whom she was acquainted, to the proof:
that she was previously acquainted with the anecdote I
had related, and it was one of those that mostly had
excited her astonishment, though she had never taken the
pains to ascertain the truth of it ; but that Swedenborg
having come one evening to her court, she had taken him
aside, and begged him to inform himself of her deceased
brother, the Prince Royal of Prussia, what he said to her
at the moment of her taking leave of him for the court of
Stockholm . She added, that what she had said was of a
nature to render it impossible that the prince could have
repeated it to any one, nor had it ever escaped her own
lips : that, some days after, Swedenborg returned, when
she was seated at cards, and requested she would grant
him a private audience ; to which she replied, he might
communicate what he had to say before the company ;
but Swedenborg assured her he could not disclose his
errand in the presence of witnesses : that in consequence
of this intimation the queen became agitated, gave her
cards to another lady, and requested M. de Schwerin
(who also was present when she related the story to us,)
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