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JONAS CEDERSTEDT. 709
to his native country, which, however, he declined to do, pleading his
advanced age. Björnståhl writes that, when he was in London in 1775,
.Springer was looked upon as the oldest pillar in the Council of the
Swedish Church in that place. He found that he was very well informed
in contemporaneous politics, and inthe secret history ofSweden, England,
and Russia, that he talked like a prophet about things past and
future, that he was consulted as an oracle by the highest gentlemen,
that he seemed especially created for diplomacy, and that he was a
most excellent politician. He calls him the father of the Swedish
nation in London. He died August 9, 1788, and according to his
own wish was buried in the Swedish churchyard. In the burial
register of the Church we find the following notice respecting him :
“ He defended the Swedish Church in London against several unlawful
attempts which were made to interfere with its rights, and was its stay
and support for a long period. He always loved his country sincerely
and faithfully; and during the thirty -five years of his residence in
London gladly assisted with information and advice his travelling
countrymen who came to England .”
On the relations between Springer and Swedenborg, the former
wrote to Abbé Pernety, “ As regards myself, I cannot assign a
reason for Swedenborg’s great regard for me, who am not a man of
literature. It is true that we were good friends in Sweden, but that
this friendship should have continued between us with such constancy
as it did, is what I did not expect."
NOTE 122 .
JONAS CEDERSTEDT.
Jonas Cederstedt was a councillor in the College of Mines when
Swedenborg became connected with it. He was first attorney and
afterwards clerk in the Court of Chancery at Upsal. In 1685 he became
private secretary to Count Fabian Wrede, who was president of the
Court of Reduction or Sequestration, and whose duty it was to reclaim
to the crown from the nobility the estates which had gradually become
alienated from it. On account of his services in that court he was
promoted in 1687 to the position of attorney in the College of Mines.
In 1704, he became assessor in the College ; was ennobled in 1705,
when he changed his name from Carlstedt to Cederstedt; and in 1713
he received the appointment of councillor of Mines. He died in 1730.
Swedenborg repeatedly mentions his former colleague in the
"Spiritual Diary," (nos. 47014703, 4826, 5967, 6032.) His collusion
with Secretary Porath by which he obtained various sums of money
detailed in nos. 4701-4703, is described in Note 127.
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