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TESTIMONY OF COUNT A. J. VON HOPKEN. 49
VI.
TESTIMONY OF MR. WM. COOKWORTHY,
RESPECTING
SWEDENBORG.
With the Englishmen whose approbation of Swedenborg’s sentiments was strength-
ened, by a personal acquaintance with himself, must be reckoned the late Mr. Wm.
Cookworthy, a man of most superior character, the friend of the first Lord Camelford,
and of Captain Jervis, afterwards Earl St. Vincent, and the associate of many of the
literati of his day. This gentleman testified his satisfaction with Swedenborg and his
writings, by joining with Mr. Hartley in translating the treatise on Heaven and Hell, and
defraying the whole expense of the printing and publication.*
VII.
TESTIMONY
OF
COUNT ANDREW JOHN VON HOPKEN,
RESPECTING
SWEDENBORG.
This nobleman was one of theinstitutorsof the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences,
which, being a man of eminent learning, he served for a considerable period in the
capacity of Secretary. He afterwards was, for many years. Prime Minister of the king-
dom ; which station, in addition to his post as one of the sixteen Senators, w^ith whom,
prior to the revolution in 1772, the royal power in fact was vested, the king being merely
the president of that body, made him the second person in the kingdom. He died on
the 9th of March, 1790. In the New Jerusalem Magazine, published in 1790 and 1791,
are five letters of this nobleman to General Tuxen, in answer to some inquiries respect-
ing Swedenborg made by the latter. Count Hopken’s letters exhibit much of the wari-
ness of an old politician ;
yet while he even seems to censure some parts of Sweden-
borg’s writings, his anxiety to apologize for them clearly discovers what was his real
opinion.
Letters from Senator Count Hdpken to General Tuxen.
LETTER I.
*•’
Sir,
" My stay in the country, at a distance from the capital and the great world,
is the cause of my answering later than I ought the letter of April 21st, with
which you have honored me. The office with which I was invested in my
* See a Memoir of him in The Intellectual Repository, New Series, Vol. i. p. 439, &c.
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