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1228 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
NOTE 247.
COUNT J. PH. VON SCHWERIN.
Count Jacob Philip von Schwerin, who was present when Sweden
borg related to the Queen of Sweden the result of his conversation
with her departed brother, the Prince of Prussia,246 was born in 1719.
After having spent several years in the service of the Court he was
appointed in 1747 councillor of the government (Regeringsråd) in
Pomerania, and in 1753 president of the court of Wismar. In 1766
he was made a count, in 1769 senator (riksråd), and two years
afterwards marshal-in-chief to the dowager Queen Louisa Ulrica.
When the revolution of 1772 took place he was relieved of his
senatorship, but was soon after recalled into the senate, and con
tinued in that office until his death in 1779. Count von Schwerin
was a man of a lofty and sober character, and, when circumstances
required, was not afraid to pronounce his opinion. When he visited
Berlin in 1770, as governor of Duke Charles, Frederic II received
him with manifest marks of dislike, and one day evidently pointing
at Schwerin said : "Stupidity can never disguise itself in the features
of any man." "In this case," said Schwerin fixing his eyes on the
King, "Your Majesty is mistaken. Many a one may be narrow
minded and slow in some things, and yet quick in others; when
quickness, however, is drowned by prejudice, it is no proof of genius."
He thus reproved the conqueror of Silesia in a certain sense, who
from that moment changed his opinion in respect to the estimable
Swedish Senator, and expressed in many ways the respect which he
henceforth entertained for him. This account of Count von Schwerin
is taken from Hofberg’s Svenskt Biografiskt Handlexicon.
NOTE 248.
CAPTAIN STÅLHAMMAR.
Captain Carl Leonhard Stålhammar, who in a letter dated May
13, 1788 (Document 276, p. 677), condemned the explanation which
the Berlinische Monatsschrift gave of the "Queen’s Story" (see Docu
ment 276, I, p. 698 et seq.) was born in 1736. In 1763 he became
lieutenant in the infantry regiment from East Gothland (Östgötha),
afterwards captain and knight of the order of the Sword. In 1767
he retired from the service, and died in 1797.
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