Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
Doc. 245.] 371
SWEDENBORG TO TUXEN.
W.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG TO GENERAL COMMISSARY C. TUXEN.201✯
"I received your letter of March 4 by your son, Lieutenant
Tuxen, from whom I had the pleasure of receiving a visit. I
ought to have answered your letter earlier; but as I waited
for the conclusion of the Gottenburg affair, in order to inform
you in respect to it, my answer has been delayed for some time.
I suffered this matter, with all the ire that was poured out upon
it at Gottenburg, to come to an end, and then I at last
sent to the Chancellor of Justice196 and Senator Ekeblad200
copy of the enclosed [Document 245, R], causing thereby
a change in the affair, of which I shall inform you some
other time.
"The affair took its rise at Gottenburg, principally from the
Dean. The deputies of that place having been instructed to
complain of me and of Dr. Beyer to the Diet, they pushed
matters as far as they could, but would never have effected
anything, had not Bishop Filenius, who was then the Speaker
in the House of the Clergy, taken up the matter, and, by
cunning and craft, gained over a crowd in the House. This
the Bishop did at first from secret dislike, and afterwards
from malice. The result was that a committee was appointed
in the House of the Clergy on the Swedenborgian cause.
Whilst they deliberated on this subject , I did not hear a
word of it, as all was carried on with secrecy ; yet the com
mittee, which consisted of bishops and professors, found the
matter quite different from what Bishop Filenius had repre
sented: they terminated in my favour, and expressed them
selves in the House with respect to myself very handsomely
and reasonably. Bishop Filenius, nevertheless, succeeded in
having a memorial submitted to His Royal Majesty and the
* A copy of the Swedish original of this Document is preserved in the
Cathedral-Library of Linköping among the letters of Dr. Carl Jesper Ben
zelius.99 An English translation was published by Mr. Augustus Norden
sköld35 in the Appendix to the "New Jerusalem Magazine" for 1790 ; whence
it was inserted in the English editions of the "Swedenborg Documents"
published in England and America.
24*
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
