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BARON CARL FREDERIC VON HÖPKEN. 717
182 to 193, and also the various resolutions and expostulations which
were offered on the subject in the Swedish Diet.
The measures advocated by Swedenborg succeeded in the end,
for in January, 1762, the members of the Secret Committee were called
in, and it was resolved that henceforth no money should be advanced
on movable property, which is the substance of Swedenborg’s first
resolution on page 501. Nordencrantz now held aloof from politics
for a while, and also made friends with Swedenborg, as appears from
Document 194. The party of the "hats” also continued to hold the
reins of government.
In the next session of the Diet, however, the party of the “ hats ”
was forced to retire. Now Nordencrantz came again to the front;
and a plan advocated both by Nordencrantz and Swedenborg was
introduced, that the circulation of paper-money should be limited
to the amount of bullion held in store by the Bank. Swedenborg,
however, proposed to reach this result slowly and by degrees, while
Nordencrantz was in favour of more decisive and energetic measures,
which were the measures adopted. But this procedure increased the
difficulties instead of lessening them ; so that they returned, in the
Diet of 1769, to the original plan, by which the Bank was authorized
again to advance money on every description of property.
Nordencrantz had meanwhile become a Bank commissioner, which
gave him a more intimate insight into the nature of the financial
crisis in Sweden , and on these subjects he continued writing until
the time of his death in 1772, the same year that Swedenborg
departed this life.
Nordencrantz’s biographer in the Swedish " Biografiskt Lexicon "
sums up his character in these words : “He was a man of judgment
and intelligence; but one-sided and partial; he was self-willed, con
ceited , and obstinate, like most self-made and self-taught men ; dry,
massive, uncouth , and strong in hate; yet I believe him to have
been an honest man, a good citizen, and a disinterested lover of
his country ."
NOTE 134.
BARON CARL FREDERIC VON HÖPKEN.
Baron Carl Frederic von Höpken, a younger brother of Count
Anders J. von Höpken, to whom are addressed Documents 183
and 188, was born in 1713. He was appointed royal chamberlain
in 1732, and the same year he and Edward Carleson24 were sent
by the College of Commerce to the East, to advance the com
merce of Sweden. They travelled through Germany, Holland, and
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