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GENERAL TUXEN. 1149
General Tuxen, it seems, made Swedenborg’s personal acquaintance
in the spring of 1768. It is true he states in Document 255 (p. 432)
that he saw Swedenborg "a few years" after what he describes in
no. 3 (p. 431 ), where he says that Swedenborg was asked whether
he had seen King Frederic V, who had died the preceding year on
January 14, 1766 ; so that according to this statement Tuxen must
have met Swedenborg for the first time "a few years after 1767."
That he saw him in the spring of the very next year, 1768, is
proved by the following considerations: In no. 8 (p. 434) Tuxen
states further that "some time afterwards" he was informed that
Swedenborg had returned to Stockholm, and that the Consistory of
Gottenburg had instituted an inquiry into the conduct of Dr. Beyer,
which induced him to procure a copy of the printed Minutes. As
these printed Minutes begin with March 22, 1769, and end in
February, 1770, he must have become acquainted with their existence
.
some time in the latter part of 1769, or about the time Sweden
borg returned to Stockholm, that is in October, 1769. In Docu
ment 272 (pp. 623 and 624), however, it is proved that Sweden
borg in the spring of 1768 had entered upon the journey from which
he returned to Stockholm in October, 1769, so that Tuxen must
have made his acquaintance in the spring of 1768. From this it
follows also that when General Tuxen wrote his account of Sweden
borg, which was in 1790 when he was seventy-seven years old, his
memory not only of dates, but also of names, had already become
uncertain, as is further proved by a footnote on p. 431.
In no. 8 (p. 434) General Tuxen further states that he wrote to
Swedenborg on the subject of the Gottenburg transactions, and
received a letter from him in reply. In his letter to the King dated
May 10, 1770 (Document 245, X, p. 375), Swedenborg declares that
he obtained his first knowledge of the printed minutes of the Gotten
burg controversy from "a general commissary of war at Elsinore,"
by whom he no doubt meant General Tuxen. The letter which
Swedenborg wrote in reply to Tuxen and which is dated May 1 ,
1770, constitutes Document 245, X (p. 371).
From Document 252 (p. 405) it appears that General Tuxen
corresponded also with Count Höpken respecting Swedenborg.
The letters that Höpken addressed to Tuxen constitute Docu
ment 252, A-E. From one of these letters (p. 410), it appears
that Tuxen is the author of the epitaph on Swedenborg given in
Note 210.
In the list of members ofthe Exegetic-Philanthropic Society,
published by Dr. Im. Tafel in his Magazin für die Neue Kirche
(Vol. I, no. 2, p. 70), General Tuxen appears with the following
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