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JOACHIM VON NERÉS. 693
departed this life in 1744, and thus only one year before Sweden
borg’s sight was opened ; it follows therefore that Adam Leijel, the
subject of our note, was the Leijel who is mentioned by Sweden
borg in his "Spiritual Diary."
NOTE 104.
COUNT HORN.
Count Arvid Bernhard Horn was born in 1664. He entered the
army in 1682 as a musketeer, and left it in 1704 a lieutenant-general.
In 1705, he was appointed ambassador to Poland and a councillor
of Chancery ; of which, five years later, he became president. In
1719, he resigned all his offices; but next year became president
of the Diet (landmarskalk) and leader of the House of Nobles, and
senator and president of the College of Chancery, which is equivalent
to being prime minister of Sweden. He held this office till 1739,
when he was succeeded by Count Carl Gyllenborg. This change in
the administration of Sweden is adverted to by Lars Benzelstjerna
in Document 124. He died in 1742. Count Arvid Horn’s activity
as prime minister of Sweden, and as the leader of the party of the
"caps," is described in the Introduction to Document 172.
NOTE 105.
JOACHIM VON NERÉS.
Joachim von Nerés was born in 1689. He passed successively
through the lower offices in the College of Commerce, until in 1728
he became burgomaster of commerce in Stockholm and chairman of
the Board of Trade. In 1729, he was appointed a councillor of
Chancery; and was ennobled in 1730, under the name of von Nerés,
his family name being Neresius. In the same year he married Catharina
Schwede, daughter of Brita Behm . She is repeatedly mentioned by
Bishop Swedberg in Documents 15, 18, and is the Miss Behm of
Documents 30 and 31. Catharina Schwede died in 1735, and Nerés
married again in 1738. He resigned office as councillor of Chancery in
1739 (see Document 124), and died in 1748. Swedenborg speaks of him
in the “Spiritual Diary,” nos. 4995 to 4999, 5024, 5065. In no. 4995
he says, “Everything he did was for the sake of gain; and in every
thing he had respect to gain; those who were rich he compelled by
various means to give up to him some of their riches."
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