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548 SWEDENBORG IN THE HOUSE OF NOBLES. (Doc. 196.
borg to have declared, “it is enough to drive hell itself
mad," that the Diet had refused to impeach these senators.
Further, he says that “ Swedenborg’s ’madness’ was satis
fied, when von Höpken, Scheffer, and Palmstjerna left the
Senate ;" when yet Swedenborg, at the very first assembly
of the Diet, after Baron von Höpken had been removed from
his office, protested against his removal in these words, "I
cannot help being convinced that in everything he has done
he has been actuated by an honest purpose of doing the best
for his country; for I am specially acquainted with his good
intentions. I hope therefore that the Honourable Houses of
the Realm will continue to honour him with their confidence .”
The document also, from which the editor quotes, and
which fills eight closely printed pages in the work, “ Nya
Kyrkan," etc., (part II, pp. 62—69), bears on its very face the
evidence that it was not written by Swedenborg : for its pro
lixity and the intemperateness of its language are at utter
variance with Swedenborg’s concise mode of expressing him
self, and with his calm and temperate tone.
On the strength of this paper the editor of Delagardiska
Arkivet further declares that Swedenborg belonged to the
party of the "caps” or of the “ night caps." Against this the
author of " Nya Kyrkan," etc., protests very strongly on p. 71
of his work; although he does not feel prepared to impeach
the genuineness of the paper.
Such then is the internal evidence on the strength of which
we declare against the genuineness of the paper in question ;
but there is also external evidence to prove its spuriousness.
Swedenborg was very particular to retain a copy of all
the papers written by him in connection with the Swedish
Diet, and he was especially careful to preserve a copy of
everything he wrote which bore upon the Diet of 1760—1761.
In proof of this we refer to our Documents 174 to 194, which
contain a most minute record of his course of action during
that memorable session of the Diet; yet we look in vain in
these papers for any allusion to 0. B. Renhorn,139 nor is there
the slightest trace among them of any paper bearing the least
resemblance to the document imputed to Swedenborg by the
editor of Delagardiska Arkivet. As another most suspicious
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