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DOCUMENT 172.
MEMORIAL TO THE SECRET COMMITTEE
OF THE HOUSE OF NOBLES ON THE IMPOLICY
OF DECLARING WAR AGAINST RUSSIA .*
*
[In order to understand the object of this memorial it is
necessary to have a clear view of the contemporaneous history
of Sweden and other countries about the year 1734.
After the death of Charles XII all true patriots saw
the necessity of curtailing the royal power in Sweden, in
order to prevent the Swedish kings from plunging the
country into any new wars. From the year 1719 to 1772,
which is called the period of Sweden’s freedom , the executive
power was vested in the Privy Council, of which Count Arvid
Horn104 was the President until 1737. Of the party- spirit
prevailing during his administration, and which induced him
finally to resign the government in 1737, Fryxell gives us
the following description, in his “ Berättelser ur Svenska His.
torien," part 29, p. 187:
" After the death of Charles, the executive power rested
for a considerable time in the hands of Arvid Horn, against
whom a party rose consisting partly of ambitious men, men of
the future, who desired to supplant him and his friends, and
partly of patriots, who desired to revive Sweden’s warlike
spirit, and to reconquer the Baltic provinces which it had lost;
a desire which their ardour and imagination led them even to
* This memorial is preserved among the Swedenborg MSS: in the
Library of the Academy of Sciences, in Vol. 56, of the " Riksdagsskrifter,"
leaves 1-6.
31 *
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