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Doc. 271.] 617
INVESTIGATION OF DATES.
Frankfurter Ostermesse und besagter Herbstmesse 1759 durch
zuverlässige Nachrichten zu unserer Wissenschaft gekommen"
(Chronicle of the Frankfort Fair, or Semi-annual record of
historical events that came to our notice through reliable
sources between the Easter and autumn fairs), where we read
(p. 74) under the head : " Great Fire in Stockholm. - Considering
the state of the internal and external affairs of the crown of
Sweden it is a matter of great regret, that in addition to all
its other misfortunes, its capital Stockholm has been visited
by a great conflagration. On the 19th of July last, at three
o’clock in the afternoon, it broke out in three places at the
same time, viz., in the Södermalm, Norrmalm, and Holland
Street. The fire was quickly subdued in the two latter places ;
but in the first it seized the whole north-western part of the
Södermalm together with St. Mary’s Church; and a strong
north-east wind drove the flames towards the Mälar, the
Market, the iron depot, the Russian depot, and other buldings
situated along the Götgatan, and near the southern bridge of
boats, and consumed them all together with a large number
of smaller houses constructed of wood; so that altogether
seventy houses of stone and one hundred and eighty of wood
.
were destroyed. The damage is calculated to amount to nine
million dalers."
5. That this fire took place in the summer of 1759 is also
proved by Document 214, where J. Wretman, on September 1 ,
1759, wrote to Swedenborg, " I was very glad to hear that your
garden and residence have escaped the last terrible fire in
Stockholm." See also Document 5, no. 16, where reference
is made to the fire of 1759.
B.
The date of the story of the lost receipt is determined
proximately by that of the death of M. de Marteville which
took place on April 25, 1760, as is proved by Dr. Im. Tafel
by the following reference :
1. In the "Neue Generalogisch-Historische Nachrichten von
den vornehmsten Begebenheiten, welche sich an den Europäi
schen Höfen zutragen, worin zugleich vieler Standes-Personen
Lebensbeschreibungen vorkommen," Part 136, Leipzig, 1761 ,
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