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Doc. 276.] 677
ATTEMPTS AT EXPLANATION.
we shall reproduce some of the contemporary testimony by
which the accounts of the " Monatsschrift" were exploded at
the time when they were first published.
In the preface to a work entitled, Abrégé des ouvrages
d’Em. Swedenborg, which was published in Stockholm in 1788,
the following letter was printed:
C.
CAPTAIN C. L. STÅLHAMMAR AND THE
"BERLINISCHE MONATSSCHRIFT."
"Stockholm, May 13, 1788.
"I have read, with astonishment, the letter
giving an account of the conversation which the famous Sweden
borg had with Queen Louisa Ulrica; the circumstances related
in that letter are altogether false : and I hope the author will
excuse me if, by a faithful account, which can be attested by
many persons of distinction who were present and are still
alive, I convince him how much he has been deceived.
"In 1758 [ 1761 ], a short time after the death of the Prince
of Prussia, Swedenborg came to court, where he was in the
habit of attending regularly. As soon as he was perceived
by the Queen, she said to him, ’Well, Mr. Assessor, have you
seen my brother ?’ Swedenborg answered, No ; whereupon she
replied, ’If you should see him, remember me to him.’ In
saying this, she did but jest, and had no thought of asking
him any information about her brother. Eight days afterwards,
and not four-and-twenty hours, nor yet at a particular audience,
Swedenborg came again to court, but so early that the Queen
had not yet left her apartment, called the white room, where
she was conversing with her maids of honour and other ladies
of the court. Swedenborg did not wait for the Queen’s coming
out, but entered directly into her apartment, and whispered
in her ear. The Queen, struck with astonishment, was taken
ill, and did not recover herself for some time. After she had
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