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E.
THE REV. C. E. GAMBS ON SWEDENBORG.
After laying special emphasis on the fact that all Jung
Stilling’s information was derived from an anonymous "dis
tinguished Swede," while he himself is able to name, as the
sources of his account, M. Signeul, the former consul-general
of Sweden in Paris, and Mr. Nils von Jacobsson, the bosom
friend of a son of the Count von Brahe, who is one of the
chief actors in the following narrative, Mr. Gambs says :
"The Queen of Sweden, the wife of Adolphus Frederic,
the mother of Gustavus III, and the sister of Frederic the
Great, bore unwillingly the restraints which the Swedish
Diet had imposed upon the regal power after the death of
Charles XII. She sought to free herself from them, and corres
ponded with her brother on the means required to carry
out her plan. In order to be independent of the Swedish
postal service, which was entirely under the control of the
Diet, the Queen dispatched all her letters by a man who,
under the pretext of travelling on business, passed to and
fro between Sweden and Prussia. The Queen, however,
was not aware that the members of the Diet did not trust
her, and that they, and especially Count Brahe, father of the
present Count, who was president of the Diet, surrounded the
Queen with spies, and soon ferreted out her private letter
carrier, on whom they prevailed , partly by threats and
partly by bribes, to surrender to the marshal-in-chief, Count
Brahe, every letter from the Queen, before taking it to Prussia,
and every letter from her brother,before delivering it to the
Queen.
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