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Doc. 275.] 653
SWEDENBORG AND THE QUEEN.
G.
BARON C. F. VON HÖPKEN’S 134 ACCOUNT TO GEN. TUXEN.
"A report having been circulated, that the Queen dowager
of Sweden, Louisa Ulrica, had given Assessor Swedenborg a
commission to speak with her deceased brother, the Prince
of Prussia,246 I inquired of a certain minister [Baron C. F.
von Höpken ; see footnote to Document 255, p. 430], a
nobleman of great learning, who had, for several years past,
honoured me with his intimate friendship, whether he had
heard any thing of this report .... He answered me, that the
report was not unfounded; that it had been communicated
by all the foreign ministers in Stockholm to their respective
courts."
In the account furnished by Swedenborg to General Tuxen
it will be noticed that he spoke there simply of a commission
with which he had been charged by the Queen, without speci
fying the nature of that commission.
It is to be observed that in none of the accounts of this
occurrence which had been published previous to the year
1768, was the nature of this commission explained; as appears
from the narratives published by Kant in 1766, and of Dr. Clemm
in 1767.
That of Kant which was printed in his "Träume eines
Geisterschers" (p. 85, etc.), was derived from the Danish officer
mentioned in his letter to Charlotte von Knobloch in Docu
ment 272. This officer had read it in a letter addressed by
Baron von Lützow, the Mecklenburg ambassador in Stock
holm, to Dietrichstein, the Austrian ambassador in Copen
hagen. This account is as follows:
H.
KANT’S TESTIMONY.
"Towards the end of the year 1761 Mr. Schwedenberg [sic!]
was called to a princess, whose great understanding and pene
tration ought to have made an attempt at imposition almost
impossible. He was summoned to her on account of the general
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