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COUNT ERIC BRAHE. 719
NOTE 136.
COUNT SCHEFFER .
Count Carl Frederic Scheffer, who was born in 1715, became a
member of the Swedish Senate in 1751. From 1756 to 1762, he
superintended the education of the Swedish princes, Gustavus III
and Frederic Adolphus. In 1761 , as appears from Document 196,
he was obliged to resign his seat in the Senate, in conjunction with
Count Höpken and Baron Palmstjerna. He was recalled, however,
the same year, and continued in office until 1765, when the administration
passed out of the hands of the party of the “hats,” with whom Baron
Scheffer was identified. In the year 1765, he left the Swedish Senate
and at the same time his former party, and joined the party of the
King. In 1770, he accompanied the Crown-prince Gustavus on his tra
through Europe; and it is supposed that during this journey those
plans were matured which, in 1772, when Gustavus III, on the death
of his father, ascended the Swedish throne, culminated in a coup
d’état, by which the constitution of Sweden was superseded, and the
King of Sweden became again the personal ruler of his kingdom .
Baron Scheffer was made a count in 1766. He continued to wield
great political power until the time of his death in 1786. -
NOTE 137.
COUNT ERIC BRAHE.
Count Eric Brahe, one of the unfortunate noblemen who were
executed in 1756 by order of the Swedish Diet (see Document 196,
p. 543), was born in 1722. He entered the Swedish military service,
and was made a colonel in 1752. In 1744 he was appointed a
member of the special embassy sent to Berlin, to accompany to
Sweden the Princess Louisa Ulrica, its future Queen.1 In 1752,
Count Brahe, as the first count on the roll, was vice-president of
the Swedish Diet, and in 1755 he was elected president. Sweden
borg reports of him in his “Spiritual Diary,” n. 5099: “ He was executed
at 10 o’clock, A.M.
, and he conversed with me at 10 o’clock, P.M.
thus after twelve hours; and then he spoke with me almost continually
for several days. After the second day he commenced returning into
the former state of his life, which consisted in loving worldly things;
and after the third day he was just as he had been in the world,
and was carried away by the evils which he had imbibed in the world ."
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