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Doc. 263.] TESTIMONY COLLECTED BY PROVO. 537
man. He at that time breakfasted on coffee, ate moderately
at dinner, and drank one or two glasses of wine after it, but
never more. In the afternoon he drank tea, but never ate any
supper. He usually walked out after breakfast , generally
dressed neatly in velvet, and made a good appearance. He was
mostly reserved, but complaisant, to others.
2. He has told me that very few were given to see the
things that he did, and that he often saw many extraordinary
things. Mr. Springer121 once asked him, when at dinner here,
about the state ofa person who was the occasion ofMr. Springer’s
being obliged to leave Sweden, and who was deceased ; to
which he answered that it was very bad, and that he hoped
his would be better. A secretary of Baron Nolcken,* who
was present, put an impertinent question to him of a similar
kind, which he refused to answer, observing, that he never
answered such questions as originated in ill-will or malice.
3. He commonly retired to his chamber in the evening,
and once I heard some noise from that part, and went to speak
to him about it ; and as he seemed rejoiced, I asked him the
occasion ; when he told me that he had seen some extraordinary
things which pleased him.
4. He told me the story about the Queen of Sweden’s
[Ulrica’s] brother: she had secretly burnt a letter of his to
her, sent a short time before a battle in which he was killed,
and she wanted to know some other particulars relative to
the contents : Swedenborg, some days after her application to
him, returned, and told her that her brother was offended that
she had burnt his letter; and as this was known to none but
herself, she nearly fainted at hearing it; and was always very
courteous to him afterwards.
5. He also related the affair of the Countess de Marteville,*
from whose husband’s information, after his decease, he told
her where a receipt for a sum of money lay ; where she found
it; for which she wished to make Swedenborg a handsome
present, but he refused it.
* Baron Gustavus Adam von Nolken was the Swedish Ambassador at
the Court of St. James’ from 1763 to 1794. He died in 1812.
See Document 274, Q and R.
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