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718 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
France, and then went by way of Italy, Greece, and Cyprus to
Egypt, where they spent some time. From Egypt they returned
by way of Asia Minor, Constantinople, Servia, and Bosnia to
Venice, where they found a royal decree appointing them both
chargés d’affaires at the court of Constantinople. They arrived
there in 1735, and concluded a commercial treaty between Sweden
and Turkey in 1737. In 1736, they were both appointed councillors of
Chancery; and in 1738, Baron Höpken was created envoy extraordinary
to Turkey, in which capacity he concluded a defensive alliance
between Sweden and Turkey. In 1742, he returned to Sweden, leaving
Carleson alone in Constantinople. In 1747, he became secretary of
State in the Department of War, and in 1757 president of the
Department of Finance. He died in 1778.
NOTE 135.
BARON PALMSTJERNA .
Baron Nils Palmstjerna was according to the Swedish " Biografiskt
Lexicon," the strongest member of the cabinet of which Count Höpken28
was chief. He was born in 1696, and served in the Swedish and
French armies until 1738, when he was appointed Swedish ambassador
to the Court of Denmark; which post he held until 1744. In 1746,
he was appointed senator, together with Count Höpken, Count Ekeblad,
and others; and in 1747, was elected chancellor of the University of
Lund, which greatly prospered under his administration. From 1746
to 1761, he continued a member of the Swedish Senate, and accord
ing to his biographer "he was one of the most prudent, industrious,
and certainly one of the most influential, in a government in which
the King was a mere cipher. It is quite possible also that he had
a hand in every thing, but he avoided the appearance of it. His
was “a Roman character in the Latin meaning of that term. In
the year 1756, when an attempt was made on Sweden’s liberty,
Palmstjerna seems to have been the one who more than any other
of his colleagues held fast to the principle, Fiat justitia et pereat
mundus let justice be done and the world perish ." Particulars of the
part Baron Palmstjerna took in shaping the politics of Sweden will
be found in the remarks appended to Document 196, pages 542 to
546 ; where it appears that he was compelled to leave the Swedish
Senate in 1761, in conjunction with Count Höpken28 and Baron
Scheffer.136 He was recalled to the Senate in the same year, but
refused to accept the offioe. He died on his wife’s estate of Sörby
in Nerike, in 1766.
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