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DOCUMENT 186.
STATEMENT PREPARED BY SWEDENBORG
IN REPLY TO THE MEMORIAL OF
NORDENCRANTZ,183
INSERTED IN THE MINUTES OF THE HOUSE OF NOBLES. *
From what has just been read, I learn that my memorial,
which was read on January 12, is supposed to militate against
the liberty which every member of the Diet has of lodging com
plaints against unjust dealings committed either by judges or
civil officers. But my humble memorial on the contrary
insists that all such things ought to be reported, inquired into,
and settled, especially by the large secret commission or com
mittee. My object in submitting this memorial has been , to
prevent in time our excellent established form of government
from being darkened and blackened by the charge of a count
less number of faults against it, whereby the desire for re
volution is engendered. And as it is supposed by some
although I do not share this apprehension - that this result may
be produced by the book of Nordencrantz,133 the Councillor
of Commerce, I therefore beg permission to hand in a few
remarks upon it ; especially as I understand that similar
charges will be brought before the other Houses. In these
remarks I propose to show the great absurdity of a proposal
made there with the claim of being rational, by which all
officers of the state, with the exception of the clergy and the
army, are to give up their places every second or third year.
* The Swedish original of this paper, under the heading “ Svar till
protocollet,” is preserved on leaf 58 in the volume of Swedenborg’s " Riks.
dagsskrifter” in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm .
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