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Doc. 196.) 545
VINDICATION OF HIS CHARACTER.
and also to have been on terms of intimacy with him; as ap
pears further from Document 183.
Fourthly, that in Document 194 he made an elaborate
defence of the course of action of Senators von Höpken,
Palmstjerna, and Scheffer, and expressed himself in favour of
having them re-instated in their former posts of honour.
Fifthly, that in his state papers he used clear and forcible,
but never intemperate language, and kept aloof from all
personalities; yea, when he was obliged, in conscience, to
oppose the measures proposed by Nordencrantz, the Councillor
of Commerce, he very carefully distinguished between the
person of his opponent
, and the views he propounded (see
Documents 174 to 194 ).
On the strength of these five points, which show the real
ground taken by Swedenborg in the Swedish Diet in the
affair of Barons von Höpken, Palmstjerna, and Scheffer, we
deny that Swedenborg is the author of a paper, published in
Vol. IX, (p. 191 , et seq.) of “ Delagardiska Arkivet " under
the title : " Rent swar på falska Satser. Dediceradt till H :r
0. B. Renhorn 139 wid Riksdagen 1761;" (A clean answer
upon false propositions ; dedicated to Mr. O. B. Renhorn at
the Diet of 1761), and we declare that this paper is wrongly
- attributed to Swedenborg by the editor of “Delagardiska
Arkivet." 140
The bearing which this paper has upon Swedenborg’s
character in the eyes of posterity, is best illustrated from the
biographical sketch of Baron Nils Palmstjerna135 contributed
to the “ Biografiskt Lexicon” by the editor of “Delagardiska
Arkivet" himself, in Vol. XI, p. 66, in which we read as
follows: " The sharpest of those sent into the House of
Nobles, and the severest speaker was, we believe, Assessor
Emanuel Swedenborg, otherwise less known by his speeches
at the Diet, than by his spirit visions. It was after Bidenius
Renhorn139 had arisen in defence of the Senate—the same
Renhorn who had been one of the actors in the blood
commission of 1756, and who then carried the measure by
which four noblemen and four commoners were executed on
June 23. A burgomaster who commanded such influence
ought to have been able to save his former patrons. Yet it
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