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LUDWIG MANDERSTRÖM. 681
very much diminished. Still a conscientious statesman ought to serve,
not his royal master only, but the people also; and, indeed, he ought
to serve the people in the first place, or the King for the sake of
the people. Whichever way the question is decided, there can be
no doubt that Görtz deeply wronged the Swedish people, whether
as the prime mover of these disastrous measures, or as the mere
instrument of the King.
NOTE 79.
COUNT CARL GUSTAV MÖRNER.
“ Count Carl Gustav Mörner,” says Atterbom in his note to our
Document 81, " was senator and field-marshal. At that time [i. e.
1718] he stood in high favour with the King, and was with him to
the last at Frederickshall. In Mörner’s service was the dwarf Luxen
burg, who used to amuse the King by singing French and Italian
airs.” Count Mörner was born in 1658. After the death of the King,
he became President of the Court of Appeals at Jönköping, and
died at that place in 1721. He has the reputation of having been
a brave soldier and an able general.
NOTE 80 .
MARTIN LUDWIG MANDERSTRÖM .
Martin Ludvig Manderström , who married Maria Polhem, (see Docu
ment 81,) was born in 1691. He was a page at the Royal Court; studied
afterwards at Upsal, and in 1713 became one of the gentlemen in
attendance on the King. He followed Charles XII from Turkey to
Stralsund in 1715; was with him during the whole of the memorable
siege, and waited upon him to the hour of his death. He after
wards accompanied his corpse to Carlberg. In 1720 he became
Chamberlain to King Frederic, which post he filled for twenty-three
years. On the accession to the throne of King Adolphus Frederic
he became general manager of his Court, which office he also held
under King Gustavus III to the time of his death in 1780. Mander
ström became Councillor of War in 1747, and in 1771 was created
a baron. He had five sons and one daughter.
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