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Doc. 275.] 661
SWEDENBORG AND THE QUEEN.
had not reference to a circumstance dating seventeen years
back; but one which concerned her intercourse with her brother
during the last year of his life, in 1758 ; and, indeed, at a
time when Sweden was at war with Prussia. The fact of her
carrying on a correspondence in the enemy’s country, which
would have come to light had she divulged the character of
the commission she had given to Swedenborg, the Queen sought
to conceal by connecting it with a circumstance that occurred
in 1744. The Queen, indeed, communicated the real fact of
the case to Count Höpken in 1774, but he did not make it
known until 1784, thus ten years after her death.
Swedenborg himself communicated the particulars of his
commission to some of his friends in London, no doubt after
he had given his account to Gen. Tuxen ; and it is remarkable
that in none of the accounts of this story which date from
London, is it said that he had been commissioned by the
Queen to report the substance of a conversation she had had
with her brother; but they all agree that it concerned her
correspondence with her brother in 1758.
We, accordingly, read in subdivision B, (p. 648,) that Springer
asked Swedenborg " concerning the letter written by the Queen
of Sweden to the late Margrave, her brother." The particulars
of the account, however, Springer communicated to Henry
Peckitt, Esq., in 1778 ; they are as follows :
Q.
MR. SPRINGER’S121 ACCOUNT TO HENRY PECKITT.229*
* See Document 263, no. 13.
"Mr. Springer told me, that the Queen of Sweden had
written letters to her brother, a Prince of Prussia ;246 and that
having no answers, she doubted whether he had received them
or not. The Baron [ Swedenborg] at that time had converse
with the Queen, and her brother died in Prussia. She was
very desirous to know if he had received the letters. She
consulted the Baron, who said he would inform her in a few
days. He did so, and told her he had received them, and
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