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560 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 267.
captain about his passage, he removed into the neighbourhood
of the river and stayed with a Swedish innkeeper, of the name
of Bergström,224 who is still living, and resides at present at
the King’s Arms in Well Close Square, and who was com
missioned to lay in provisions for him. As Swedenborg among
other things took daily a certain portion of coffee, Berg
ström asked him for how many days he should lay in ground
coffee, he answered, " For six days." Bergström said that this
was too little, as it was impossible that he, the Assessor,
could be in Stockholm in so short a time, when Swedenborg
replied, "Yes, lay in enough for seven days." What happened?
In the course of six days the ship was at Dalarö, and on the
seventh in Stockholm. The captain who was an Englishman,
and whose name I think was Mason [Dixon ? see Docu
ment 261 , no. 12] , on his return to London is said to have
remarked, that never in all his life had he experienced such
a favourable wind as on that occasion, and that it followed
him at every turn he made.
12. Although Swedenborg was several times in the Swedish
church, and afterwards dined with me, or some other Swede,
he said that he had no peace in the church on account of
the spirits, who contradicted what the minister said, especially
when he treated of three persons in the Godhead, which is
the same as three gods.
13. On my return from England in 1772 I was requested
by the House of the Clergy at the Diet, through their speaker
Bishop Forssenius,235 to give an account of Swedenborg, similar
to the one I am now giving, which I did on three sheets ;
but I regret not having taken a copy of it, as I am doing
this time.
14. Some one might think that Assessor Swedenborg was
eccentric and whimsical ; but the very reverse was the case.
He was very easy and pleasant in company, talked on every
subject that came up, accommodating himself to the ideas of
the company ; and he never spoke on his own views, unless
he was asked about them. But if he noticed that any one
asked him impertinent questions, intended to make sport of
him, he immediately gave such an answer, that the questioner
was obliged to keep silence, without being the wiser for it.
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