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374 [Doc. 215.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
of bishops and professors. This committee sat for several
months, and at last reported handsomely and reasonably on
that subject, and thereby suppressed completely the disturb
ance which had been made ; but to put an end to it still more
effectually, it was resolved that a humble memorial should be
addressed to Your Royal Majesty, requesting that the Chan
cellor of Justice should inquire about the disturbances which
had arisen in Gottenburg. When the Bishop and the Dean of
that place, who are the torch and trumpet (
fax et tuba) in this
affair, discovered that they made no progress in the reverend
House of the Clergy, they, to stir up and kindle the flame
anew, commenced a publication of twenty sheets or more about
’
Swedenborgianism,’ which is filled with invectives ; and after
this had been sent to Stockholm , the matter was taken up
and settled by Your Majesty in the Privy Council , in conse
quence of which the Chancellor of Justice dispatched to the
Consistory of Gottenburg an official letter, wherein, I have
reason to think, he assented to the opinion expressed by the
Consistory.
"I received no more intimation than a child in the cradle
of all that took place, of the committee in the reverend House
of the Clergy, of the memorial they submitted to Your Royal
Majesty, of the publication in Gottenburg on ’Swedenborgian
ism,’ of the resolution which was passed by Your Royal Ma
jesty in the Privy Council, and of the letter embodying it which
was dispatched to the Consistory in Gottenburg. Of all this,
from beginning to end, I received not the least intimation:
all was done without my receiving a hearing ; when yet the
whole matter was about ’ Swedenborgianism,’ and the papers
printed in Gottenburg are filled with coarse and reprehensible
language without touching materially the subject of ’Sweden
borgianism,’ which is the worship of the Lord our Saviour.*
Of these printed papers I had no other knowledge than what I
received from a general commissary of war201 at Elsinore, and
* In the German translation by Prelate Etinger the following words
are added here : "Among these papers there are also two letters written
by Bishop Filenius, who, nevertheless, had no right at all to meddle in
these things."
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