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DOCUMENT 271.
A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF DATES .
Our first object will be to establish the precise dates when
these extraordinary facts, viz. 1. The conflagration in Stock
holm which was foretold by Swedenborg ; 2. The fact of the
lost receipt, and 3. The occurrence with the Queen of Sweden,
occurred.
They took place during the time intervening between Sweden
borg’s return to Sweden from Amsterdam in 1759, and the
beginning of 1762, when he departed again for the same place.
A.
The date of the conflagration in Stockholm is July 19,
1759, as is proved by Dr. Im. Tafel (Vol. IV, pp. 232, 233)
by the following contemporaneous sources :
1. In Büsching’s "Neue Erdbeschreibung," Part I, fourth
edition, Hamburg, 1770, p. 451 , we read: "In 1751 , three
hundred and ten houses were burned down together with the
Church of St. Clara. In 1759 the Södermalm (southern suburb)
was almost entirely devastated by a conflagration." See also the
Schaffhausen edition of the same work, published in 1766, p. 374.
2. The "Neue Europäische Staats- und Reisegeographie,"
Vol. 14, Dresden and Leipzig, 1767, page 800, declares, "In
the year 1759 almost the entire Södermalm was laid in ashes. ”
3. J. Hübner’s " Reales Staats-, Zeitungs- und Conver
sations-Lexicon, " Leipzig, 1789, observes (p. 2466) : " Stock
holm was visited in 1710 by a pestilence, and in 1723, 1751,
1759, 1768, and 1769 by great conflagrations. "
4. A minute description of the fire was given in the "Frank
furter Mess-Relation, das ist, Halbjährliche Erzählungen der
neuesten Staats- und Weltgeschichte, wie solche zwischen der
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