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Doc. 187.] SWEDENBORG AGAINST NORDENCRANTZ. 527
And inasmuch as Nordencrantz, the Councillor of Commerce,
has nominated from three Houses the members of a Committee
of which he is the chairman , and as he has bound them by
an oath not to divulge anything that may be transacted there,
I should like also to submit in all humility a paper wherein
are shown what consequences and dangers such a gathering
may have, unless the Honourable Houses of the Diet keep an
eye upon it, and resolve that this committee shall not be a
precedent for any future time.
DOCUMENT 187.
SWEDENBORG’S ANSWER TO NORDEN
CRANTZ’S 183 MEMORIAL TO THE
HOUSES OF THE DIET.*
In my memorial, which was handed in on January 12, I
have not incriminated any one in particular; but I have simply
stated in general that there is no cause of inculpating our
excellent government by charging it with short-comings, nor
of blaming our judges and executive governors by accusing
them of injustice and negligence, unless such cases are speci
fically stated : for such charges may be obtained by the thou
sand, though chiefly without any one being willing to certify
to their truth, as every one who loses his case considers himself
unjustly treated, and from spite collects similar cases from
others. The cause of my humble memorial was the perusal of
a book which had been distributed among the several Houses
of the Diet, and wherein I did not find a single passage in
which our government is praised, but, on the contrary, in which
it is found fault with from beginning to end ; when yet our
* The Swedish original of this paper is in the Library of the
Academy of Science in Stockholm on leaf 53 of Swedenborg’s “ Riksdags
skrifter," under the heading “Ad Protocollum .”
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