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LOUIS DE MARTEVILLE, 653
alchemists from their bootless endeavours, and tell them that they
will never succeed, unless God Himself holds out his hand."
Pernety’s advice was not followed by the friend of Charles
F. Nordensköld, who was no other than his own brother Augustus,
and who, in conjunction with the engineer Bergklint, undertook in
the years 1788 to 1790 to make gold on the island of Drottningholm .
Proofs of this we furnish in Note 35.
In answer to his letter to Charles F. Nordensköld, Pernety
received from the brothers Nordensköld the account of Swedenborg
which he published as an introduction to his translation of the work
on "Heaven and Hell," and of which we gave an analysis in the
introductory note to that account (Document 6).
If we take into consideration the peculiar and unreliable charac
ter of Augustus Nordensköld, who drew up this account; and if we
consider that he made another statement concerning Swedenborg
which we have proved to be false (compare Notes 27 and 35) ; and,
if we consider further, that he himself was guilty of those practices
and views with which he charged Swedenborg, it seems more than
probable that the story related in paragraph 17 of Pernety’s account ori
ginated also with him , and that it grew out of the letter which Pernety
had written to his brother, and from which we gave a long extract.
NOTE 43.
LOUIS DE MARTEVILLE.
Louis de Marteville was ambassador extraordinary from Sweden
to the General States of the Netherlands. He died April 25, 1760, at
the age of fifty-nine years, in Stockholm , where he had resided since
1752. (See "Neue Genealogisch-Historische Nachrichten von den
vornehmsten Begebenheiten, welche sich an den Europäischen Höfen
zutragen ,” etc. part 136, Leipzig, 1761, pp. 244, 247.) Madame de
Marteville was a sister of Chamberlain von Ammon, who had been
the ambassador of Prussia to the Courts of Holland and France. She
had probably been with her brother in Holland, and had there made
the acquaintance of her first husband. Her second husband, the
Danish General von E ..... , wrote an account of her experience with
Swedenborg to a clergyman, by whom this account was inserted in
a periodical entitled “ Journal von und für Deutschland ” for the year
1790, published by von Bibra. After communicating the letter of
General von E..... this clergyman pays the following tribute to the
character of Madame de Marteville: “In conclusion I desire to state
that I was personally acquainted with Madame de Marteville,
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