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DOCUMENT 262.
TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM SPENCE, M. D.221 *
1. The late Christopher Springer,121 Esq. was my patient
the two or three last years of his life. Having read a letter of
his to the Abbé Pernety, wherein he mentions that, "All that
he has told me of my deceased friends and enemies, and of the
secrets I had with them, is almost past belief," and wishing
to hear the circumstances from himself concerning Count
Ekeblad,200 Mr. Springer told me before Mr. F. Nordensköld,20
Mr. B. Chastanier,222 and others, that the Count had provoked
him to draw his sword upon him, differing about politics, but
that they had made it up, and promised not to mention it to
any while in life ; that afterwards the Count had attempted to
bribe him with 10,000 rix-dalers, which sum and circumstances
Mr. Swedenborg particularly mentioned to him as having from
conversing with the Count just then deceased. Mr. Springer
each time, for he told it more than once, threw down his
handkerchief on the floor, while relating that part by my fire
side, to shew with what abhorrence he refused the purse. He
also said, Swedenborg had told him, their once adversary in
politics was not so bad a man as they had thought him, for
that he was then preparing for heaven. He likewise confirmed
how Swedenborg had related to him, what particular share he
had in settling the peace, which was a profound secret, as may
be seen in the above-mentioned printed letter.
2. Another anecdote from Dr. Messiter,2 who attended
Swedenborg in his last illness, I shall willingly publish, as
* This document was published by the Doctor himself in 1792, in a
work bearing the following title: "Essays in Divinity and Physic," &c., by
William Spence, M. D., nos. 47 and 48.
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