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656 [Doc. 275.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
she saw him, before departing for Stockholm. * She added,
that what she had said was of a nature to render it impos
sible that the prince could have repeated it to any one, nor
had it ever escaped her own lips : that, some days after,
Swedenborg returned, when she was seated at cards, and re
quested she would grant him a private audience ; to which she
replied, he might communicate what he had to say before
every body; but Swedenborg assured her he could not disclose
what he had to say in the presence of witnesses : that in con
sequence of this intimation the Queen had already become
very much agitated , and giving her cards to another lady,
she requested the Senator von Schwerin247 (who also was pre
sent when she related the story to us,) to accompany her:
that they accordingly went together into another apartment,
where she posted M. de Schwerin at the door, and advanced
towards the farthest extremity of it with Swedenborg ; who
said to her, ’You took, madam, your last leave of the Prince
of Prussia, your late august brother,246 at Charlottenburg, on
such a day, and at such an hour of the afternoon ; as you
were passing afterwards through the long gallery, in the castle
of Charlottenburg, you met him again ; and there he took you
by the hand, and led you to such a window, where you could
not be overheard, and then said to you these words ’
The Queen did not repeat the words, but she protested to us
they were the very same her brother had pronounced, and
that she retained the most perfect recollection of them. She
added, that she nearly fainted at the shock she experienced :
and she called on M. de Schwerin to answer for the truth of
what she had said ; who, in his laconic style, contented him
self with saying, ’ All you have said, madam, is perfectly true
at least as far as I am concerned.’ I ought to add, M. Thié
bault continues, that though the Queen laid great stress on
the truth of her recital, she professed herself, at the same
time, incredulous as to Swedenborg’s supposed conferences with
the dead. ’ A thousand events,’ said she, ’ appear inexplicable
and supernatural to us, who know only the immediate conse
quences of them; and men of quick parts, who are never so
* Louisa Ulrica left Berlin for Stockholm in 1744; see Document 275,N.
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