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680 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
(no. 5065.) He also speaks of their sister Sara Hesselia, of whom
he says (in no. 4530), that she had thought he intended to marry
her, and that when she found she was mistaken, and had been married
to another man, she was seized with such a deadly hatred against
him that she even revolved in her mind how she might destroy him .
NOTE 77.
NILS HASSELBOM .
Nils Hasselbom , who was mentioned by Swedenborg in Documents
80 and 101, in connection with Vassenius, was the son of a peasant
from Klefva. He left the gymnasium at Skara for the University
of Upsal in the same year (1712) as Vassenius;75 Hasselbom being
the first on a list of twenty -six students, and Vassenius second.
Hasselbom took his degree as master of philosophy in 1722, and in
1724 was appointed professor of mathematics in the University at
Åbo in Finland, which at that time belonged to Sweden.
NOTE 78.
BARON GÖRTZ.
Baron Georg Heinrich von Görtz was Privy Councillor at the
Court of Holstein, by which he was sent, in 1706, on a mission to
Charles XII, who was then in Saxony. At that time he gained the
confidence of the King of Sweden, entered into his service, and be
came at first his minister of finance, and afterwards prime minister.
He accompanied Charles XII on almost all his campaigns, and was
employed by him in the most difficult diplomatic missions. Charles XII
demanded an army and a fleet; and Görtz provided it for him by
draining the country of all men capable of bearing arms, and by
possessing himself of all the coined money of the country, plunging
it thereby into the greatest financial confusion and distress. While
he was on the point of concluding peace with the enemies of Sweden,
on terms advantageous to Sweden, Charles XII was killed before
Fredrickshall in 1718. By order of Ulrica Eleonora, who succeeded
Charles, Görtz was at once arrested and conveyed to Stockholm ,
where he was tried by a commission, and beheaded in 1719. The
authorities are divided in opinion as to whether Görtz was not a
mere instrument in the hand of the King, and therefore whether
Charles was not alone answerable for the ruin he brought upon his
country. If Görtz acted only in obedience to the King, his guilt is
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