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686 THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS. [Doc. 276.
"Again, is it at all probable that two gentlemen of the
standing and character of Count Tessin and Count, Höpken,
should at night, and secretly, have gone to the visionary
Swedenborg, in order to teach him his lesson?
"Chevalier Beylon also, who saw them leave his house
clandestinely at three o’clock in the morning, was by no
means given to promenading the streets of Stockholm at such
an unusual and even somewhat suspicious hour; and, more
over, as he depended entirely upon . Her Majesty, the Queen,
for his position as reader, it seems scarcely credible (sup
pose the anecdote in question to be even literally true)
that he should have liked to be a party to spreading a ru
mour respecting her, and indeed from so malignant a motive,
as is attributed to him. All this did not at all fit into the
character of this refined and subtle courtier, with whom I was
very well acquainted, and who died in the year 1779, very
much regretted by the whole court , having had the rare
faculty of causing himself to be loved and esteemed by both the
parties into which Sweden was then divided.*
"LETOCARD."
IV.
LETTER ADDRESSED TO L. L. VON BRENKENHOFF.253
"I enclose you another letter on the subject of Sweden
borg and the ’ Monatsschrift,’ published by Biester and Ge
dicke. Letocard’s account agrees perfectly with what the
Queen of Sweden related here at her own table concerning
her experience with Swedenborg. The Princess of Sweden250
* According to Nordin (see Document 275, B) the Chevalier Beylon
told his story not only to the gentleman who published the same in the
"Berlinische Monatsschrift," but also to Gustavus III, the King of Sweden.
It is difficult to say who was the originator of the story, whether the
Chevalier Beylon, or the " distinguished chevalier" of the "Monatsschrift ;"
but as Gustavus III, according to Nordin, distinctly told Rosenstein, that
Beylon had repeated to him the same story, there is a strong probability
that Beylon was the inventor, notwithstanding the good character which
Letocard gives to him.
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