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Doc. 261.] 531
SPRINGER’S TESTIMONY.
true; and perhaps the whole matter is better known in
Berlin."*
10. I then asked him whether it was true, as I had been
informed, that when he was at Gottenburg (a town about
sixty Swedish miles from Stockholm) he had foretold to his
friends, three days before the arrival of the post, the precise
hour of the great fire that had happened in Stockholm, to
which he replied that it was entirely true.
11. I put also many questions to him concerning Charles
XII, King of Sweden, and received surprising answers from him.
12. I will now relate to you some things which I have
both seen and heard. Fifteen years ago,† Swedenborg set
out for Sweden, and asked me to procure a good captain for
him, which I did. I contracted with one whose name was
Dixon. Swedenborg’s luggage was taken on board the vessel;
and as his apartments were at some distance from the docks,
we engaged lodgings for the night in an inn near the har
bour, as the captain above-named was to call for him in the
morning. He went to bed, and I sat in another room with
the landlord, with whom I conversed. We heard a noise ;
and not being able to tell the cause, we approached a
door, which had a little window looking into the room where
Swedenborg was sleeping. We saw him with his hands raised
towards heaven, and his body apparently very much agitated.
* The English Editor of "An Eulogium," etc., London, 1784, adds here
in a footnote (p. 33), " A friend of Mr. Swedenborg’s writings [Mr. Peckitt,
see Document 263, B, 13, ] was informed ofthe following particulars respecting
this transaction, by the writer of the above letter, which, containing some
things not found in the account related in the Anecdotes [Document 6,
no. 25], is inserted for the reader’s perusal : "The Queen had sent some
letters of a secret nature to her brother, the Prince of Prussia, and being
desirous to know whether he had received them, she consulted Mr. Sweden
borg concerning it, who told her he would inform her whether he had or
not in a few days. On his going to the Queen at the time appointed , he
told her that her brother had received them, and was going to answer
them, and that in the escritoire of the prince was an unfinished letter,
that was intended to have been sent to her, before his decease. On this
she sent to the King of Prussia, and the letter was found as Mr. Sweden
borg had predicted, which the King sent to her.""
On September 1, 1766; see Document 227, p. 244.
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