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DOCUMENT 185.
STATEMENT READ BY EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
IN THE HOUSE OF NOBLES.
P. M. (PRO MEJORIA )."
When the memorial which Nordencrantz,133 the Councillor
of Commerce, wrote against me was read, I was not in town,
but I had occasion to read it at the next meeting of the whole
House; and I was surprised then to find, that this gentleman
had applied to himself every thing I had written in my me
morial of the 12th of January; when yet it was written for
all those, whoever they may be, who collect charges of faults
and short-comings, and thereby seek to make the people
discontented with our excellent government, and to prepare
the way thereby for a revolution, by which the country might
fall unawares into the hands of an arbitrary government. All
this Nordencrantz, the Councillor of Commerce, ought not to
have applied exclusively to himself.
Read in the House of Nobles on February 16, 1761.
* The Swedish original of this memorandum is found in the Library of
the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm among Swedenborg’s “ Riksdags
skrifter” on leaf 56.
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