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Doc. 271.] 619
INVESTIGATION OF DATES.
preparations ; and on March 2 , 1762, the Count collected an
army of 13,000 men near Segeberg. After Peter III, on
July 9, 1762, was deprived of his throne and his freedom,
and, on July 17, of his life, and when in consequence there
of the Empress Catharine recalled her troops, the Danish
army also, on August 9, returned to its former quarters."
This historical statement, the truth of which Dr. Im. Tafel
proves (pp. 235, 236) by references to four historical and
biographical works,* furnishes us with two dates. In the first
place it shows that Swedenborg on July 17, 1762, had left
Stockholm and was in Amsterdam ; for on that day he an
nounced in a company in that city that "Peter III had died
in prison, explaining the nature of his death" (see Document
257, B). And, on the other hand, it shows that either towards
the close of February, or the beginning of March, 1762, the
Danish officer, Kant’s friend, received the professor’s letter
asking for further particulars, so that, allowing a month for
the letters to pass to and from Copenhagen and Königsberg,
the letter of the Mecklenburg Ambassador, Baron von Lützow,
probably reached Copenhagen some time in January, 1762.
This places the memorable meeting of Swedenborg and the
Queen of Sweden somewhere in the latter part of 1761 ; thus
agreeing with Kant’s statement made in 1766, that " Sweden
borg towards the close of 1761 was called to a princess"
[Louisa Ulrica]. As Fryxell, however, reports ("Berättelser
ur Svenska Historien," Vol. XLIII, p. 184) that an ambassador
of Saxony, in a letter dated December 8, 1761, alludes to
this occurrence, its true date must be placed towards the
close of November, 1761.
The result of our preliminary investigation into the dates
of the extraordinary facts in question is therefore as follows:
1. The conflagration in Stockholm took place on July 19, 1759.
* 1. "Allgemeine Weltgeschichte" after W. Guthrie, J. Gray, and others,
by D. F. Wagner, Vol. 16, 1. Leipzig, 1785, p. 246.
2. "Die Neuen Genealogisch-Historischen Nachrichten," etc., Part 152,
Leipzig, 1762, p. 301.
3. "Fortgesetzte Neue Genealogische Nachrichten" etc., Part V, VI, Leipzig,
1762, pp. 337, 350, 363.
4. "Biographie Universelle," Vol. XXXIX, 1825, p. 583.
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