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652 THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS. [Doc. 275.
known, either personally or from their actions or writings ;
consequently, of all of whom I could form an idea ; for it
may be supposed that a person whom I never knew, or of
whom I could form no idea, I neither could nor would wish
to speak with.
’ The Queen then asked him, ’Whether he
would undertake a commission to her lately deceased brother ? ’ 246
He answered, ’With all my heart.’ On this he followed the
Queen, with the King and Count Scheffer, to a window in
the apartment, where the Queen gave him his commission, to
which he promised to bring her an answer. . After this he
was invited to the royal table, where they put a thousand
questions to him, which he answered truly. Some time after
wards, Count Scheffer paid him another visit, and asked him
whether he would accompany him to court again, to which he
consented. The Queen on seeing him, said, ’Do not forget my
commission.’ He answered, ’ It is already done.’ And when
he delivered her his message, she was extremely surprised,
and became suddenly indisposed ; and, upon recovering herself,
she said, ’This no mortal could have told me !’
"On my inquiring whether any person had heard what the
Queen had said, when she gave him the commission, he an
swered, ’ I do not know; yet she did not speak so low but that
the King and Count Scheffer, if they had attended, might
have heard it.’ This account is trustworthy, as the late venerable
man himself related it to me. "
This interview between Swedenborg and Gen. Tuxen seems
to have taken place in the spring of 1768, when Swedenborg
journeyed to Amsterdam to print there his "Conjugial Love"
and other works ; and whence he returned to Stockholm in the
beginning of October, 1769; thus agreeing with Gen. Tuxen’s
statement (Document 255, no. 8), that some time after he was
informed that he had returned by way of Gottenburg to Stock
holm." This interview could not have taken place in 1765 ;
for from that journey Swedenborg returned to Stockholm, with
out passing through Gottenburg (see Document 230, p. 250).
Concerning the truth of Swedenborg’s affair with the Queen,
Gen. Tuxen had been previously informed by Baron C. F. von
Höpken,134 brother of Count A. G. von Höpken ; 28 see Docu
ment 255, no. 1, where Gen. Tuxen says as follows :
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