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1222 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
the New Church into the Island of Jersey, and died there in 1838 .
Of him we read in the "Intellectual Repository" for 1839 (p. 497)
that "he entered the navy in his thirteenth year, was an early
recipient of the truths of the New Church, and was known personally
to several of the gentlemen who held their first meetings at a room
in the Temple, London, to whom he was introduced by his father,
brother-in-law to the late Lord Malmesbury." Particulars of his
life in the Island of Jersey, and of the persecutions which he
suffered there on account of his adherence to the doctrines of the
New Church, are contained in the same article.
In the "Intellectual Repository" for 1831 (p. 557) is an obituary
notice of the Rev. Wm. Gomm, many years Rector of Bramdean,
Hants, and of Ham, Wilts. Of him we read that "he had long been
an affectionate receiver of the truths of the New Dispensation as
contained in the writings of Swedenborg."
See Note 184.
NOTE 242.
IMMANUEL KANT.
NOTE 243.
"THE ENGLISHMAN GREEN."
In his letter to Charlotte von Knobloch (Document 272, pp. 625
et seq.) Immanuel Kant says, "In the meantime I made the acquain
tance of a highly educated English gentleman, who spent the last
summer at this place, and whom, relying on the friendship we had
formed, I commissioned, as he was going to Stockholm, to make
particular inquiries respecting the miraculous gift which Swedenborg
is said to possess." Dr. Im. Tafel observes here (Document 272,
p. 621), "In respect to Kant’s friendship with an Englishman it
may be reasonably expected that it would be noticed by his bio
graphers; wherefore the Englisman mentioned in the letter could
not have been any other than the Englishman Green, with whom
Kant had formed a close friendship."
From Document 272, pp. 621 to 624, it appears that “Kant
made the acquaintance of his friend Green during the summer of
1767; that Green saw Swedenborg early in 1768, and returned to
Königsberg in time to meet Kant on Whit-Monday, 1768."
As the "Englishman Green" is Kant’s authority for the circum
stantial account he gives, in his letter to Charlotte von Knobloch,
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