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648 [Doc. 275.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
B.
SPRINGER’S 121 TESTIMONY.*
"I asked him [Swedenborg] concerning the letter written
by the Queen of Sweden to the late Margrave, her brother.240
He replied, Much of this is true, and much is not true ; and
perhaps the whole matter is better known in Berlin."
Cuno, who likewise interrogated Swedenborg on the same
subject, says (Document 256, p. 480,) as follows:
C.
J. C. CUNO’S212 TESTIMONY.
"I am sorry that I did not know anything about the Gotten
burg story or else I should have asked Mr. Swedenborg about
it ; as I did concerning the story about the late Prince of Prussia,246
and the lost receipt. The truth of both these stories he
affirmed, but he did not dwell long upon them, observing that
there were hundreds of similar stories ; but he did not think
it worth while to waste many words upon them ; saying that
all these things were trifles placing in the shade the great
object of his mission."
The Queen of Sweden, the other actor in this drama, is
no less explicit in her asseveration of the truth of this occur
rence. A sceptical correspondent of the "Berliner Monats
schrift" for 1788, who writes anonymously, but whom the edi
tors of that journal characterize as "a distinguished nobleman,"
had occasion to visit Stockholm, where he asked the Queen
respecting this occurrence. His account is as follows:
D.
TESTIMONY OF THE "BERLINER MONATSSCHRIFT."†
"In the meantime , I found an opportunity of speaking
with the late Queen Dowager about Swedenborg, when she
* See Document 261, no. 9.
The German original of this testimony is contained in the " Berliner
Monatsschrift" for 1788, p. 306. An English translation of it was printed
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