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Doc. 276.] 685
ATTEMPTS AT EXPLANATION.
inserted in his journal. I believe that you will not be dis
pleased at being informed of the true state of the affairs.
"COUNTESS VON SCHWERIN,
"née VON AMMON. "
II.
LETOCARD TO THE COUNTESS VON SCHWERIN.
"I have just read an extract from an article inserted in the
April number of the ’ Berlinische Monatsschrift ’ of Messrs.
Gedicke and Biester, which treats of the late Swedenborg.
Without desiring to enter the lists against the anonymous
author in respect to the details of the fact in question, I may
be permitted in all simplicity to make the following remarks
on the subject :
"The late Senator Count Tessin, whom the anonymous
author reports to have been present when the late Queen
Louisa Ulrica of Sweden commissioned Swedenborg to ask
His Royal Highness, the late Crown-Prince of Prussia, and
father of our gracious King, for the reason why he did not
answer the letter which Her Majesty wrote to him in June
1756, the date of the unfortunate plot, which afterwards re
sulted in the decapitation of Count Brahe and the Baron
Horn-had entirely withdrawn from the court as early as 1754 ;
and since that time had lived on his estates in the country,
visiting Stockholm only very rarely.
"Chevalier Beylon,251 who, according to the anonymous author,
revealed the underhand game of the affair in question, arrived
in Stockholm in the year 1760. Now the date of the prema
ture death of the late Crown-Prince of Prussia, as is well
known, was June 12, 1758 ; and all these dates being very
positive, is there any reason why the late Queen of Sweden
should have waited two entire years and more, before she
enquired the reason why her august brother had kept silence
respecting the contents of a letter, which the circumstances of
the times rendered so very important to Her Majesty ? *
* Letocard seems to have taken it for granted that the affair of the
Queen happened very soon after the decease of her brother in 1758; when
yet it really happened towards the close of 1761, and thus a whole year
after the Chevalier Beylon had arrived at the Swedish court.
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