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1146 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
NOTE 199.
COUNT HERMANSON.
Count Mathias von Hermanson (not R. Hermanson, as Sweden
borg styles him in Document 245, p. 355) was the son of a cele
brated professor at Upsal, the successor to Prof. Rosenadler.51 He
was born in 1716, and after passing with distinction through the
University of Upsal, entered the College of Chancery. In politics
he was on the same side as Count Höpken and Swedenborg. In
1756 he edited the first Gazette published in Sweden, which was
devoted to the business of the Diet, and opposed to the party at
the Court. In 1759 he became one of the secretaries of state. In
1765, when the party of the "caps" was victorious, he was removed
to the exchequer department ; but in 1769 when a reaction took
place, he was appointed senator ; and in that capacity enjoyed the
confidence of the Crown-Prince Gustavus III, and was continued in
office even after the revolution of 1772. He died in 1789.
NOTE 200.
COUNT CLAES EKEBLAD.
This nobleman’s name is mentioned several times in the preceding
Documents. In Document 245, p. 356, Swedenborg directed Dr.
Beyer to forward a copy of his letter to Count Ekeblad ; from which
it appears that he expected the Count to advocate his cause and that
of Drs. Beyer and Rosén before the Privy Council. That letter
was written in April, 1770, and in the beginning of October in the
following year the Count died. In Document 262 we read on the
testimony of Dr. Spence 221 that "Mr. Springer told him that Count
Ekeblad had provoked him to draw his sword against him, differing
about politics, but that they had made it up, and promised not to
mention it to any while they lived ; that afterwards the Count had at
tempted to bribe him with 10,000 rix-dalers, which sum and circum
stances Mr. Swedenborg particularly mentioned to him as having
from conversing with the Count then just deceased ... He also said,
Swedenborg had told him that their once adversary in politics was
not so bad a man as they had thought him, for he was then pre
paring for heaven.”
From Note 121 (Vol. I, p . 706) it appears that Springer took
an active share in Swedish politics from 1741 to 1748, when he
made himself obnoxious to the government, by whom he was finally
cast into prison, on the plea of "having used reprehensible language
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