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Doc. 275.] 655
SWEDENBORG AND THE QUEEN.
J.
THE WIFE OF SWEDENBORG’S GARDENER TO C. F. NORDENSKÖLD 201
"The wife of Swedenborg’s gardener related to us that for
days following the occurrence carriages stopped before the
door of her master, from which the first gentlemen of the
kingdom alighted, who desired to know the secret of which
the Queen was so much frightened, but her master, faithful
to his promise, refused to tell it. "
During her stay in Berlin in 1772, after her husband’s
death, the Queen was more communicative to some Acade
micians, Messrs. Mérian245 and Thiébault ;244 the latter of whom
in a work entitled, Mes Souvenirs de vingt ans de Séjour à
Berlin; ou Frédéric le Grand, etc., Paris, 1804 (Vol. II,
pp. 254 to 257), gives a long account of a conversation which
they had with the Queen respecting Swedenborg. First Thiébault
related the story of the " lost receipt," as he had heard it
from Chamberlain von Ammon,249 the brother of Madame de
Marteville (see Document 274, p. 644) ; and then the Queen
made her statement.
K.
QUEEN LOUISA ULRICA TO THE ACADEMICIAN THIÉBAULT. 2444
M. Thiébault says, Though the Queen was but little dis
posed to believe in such seeming miracles, she nevertheless
had been willing to put the power of Swedenborg, with
whom she was acquainted, to the proof: she was previously
acquainted with the anecdote I had related, and it was
one of those that had most excited her astonishment,
though she had never taken the pains to ascertain the
truth of it ; but Swedenborg having come one evening
to her court, she had taken him aside, and begged him
to inform himself from her deceased brother, the Prince
Royal of Prussia,246 what he said to her at the last moment
* See footnote to p. 65. Vol. I.
An English translation of this account appeared first in Noble’s "Ap
peal," &c., pp. 201 , 202.
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