4th. De Victriolo elixandi. 446 pages in 4to. 5th. De Sale Communi; h. e. de Sale fossili vel gemmeo, marino & fontano. 343 pages in 4to.

6th. Geometrica et Algebraica. 279 pages 4to.

7th. Principia Rerum Naturalium ab Experimentis et Geometria sive ex priori et posteriori educta. 569 pages in 4to.

8th. Three short treatises.

1. De Spiritu animali. 24 pages.

2. De sensatione, seu de corporis passione, in 13 chapters.

On its first leaf,

3. De Actione, in 35 chapters. 9th. One volume in 4to, of 760 pages. we indeed find the following title: Economia Animalis, seu transactiones de utraque parte hominis, de cerebro, medulla oblongata et spinali, de nervis, analytice, physice, philosophice demonstrata; but the treatise on this subject is not continuous, but dispersed and interrupted with other matter; viz.

1. Description of his travels in foreign countries, in the years 1710, p. 498-1721, p. 503-1723, p. 8 to p. 39, which afterwards is continued p. 45 to p. 49, and finally from p. 55 to p. 115. 1736, 1737, 1738, 1739, from p. 404 to p. 542, and afterwards from p. 730 to p.

733-737.

2. Comparatio Onthologiæ and Cosmologiæ generalis. Christiani Wolfii, cum principiis nostris rerum naturalium. p. 41.

3. De Aqu is cæmentariis Hungariæ. p. 41 to p. 46. 4. De puncti attributis. p. 49 to p. 65.

5. De Mechanismo animæ and corporis, besides several onthologica, psycologica, anatomica & excerpta variorum, from p. 116 to 495, and from p. 550 to p. 711, with an index to it from p. 712 to p. 729.

6. Description of several of his own dreams in the years 1736, 1737, 1738, 1739, and 1740. p. 730 to 733, and p. 411 to 745. These leaves have been taken out to be kept by the family itself.

10th. Several fragments of greater or smaller sizes, written in different styles, but apparently by his own hand, probably of his treatises Economia Naturalis, & Regnum Animale.

11th. De Sensu communi, ejusque influxu in animam. Fragment.

12th. Two short treatises, but deficient: de Musculis Faciei, & de Aure humana.

13th. Several mixed fragments, laid together in one packet, but afterwards divided into two packets. One for such as were written since 1745.

Letters and Documents.

In one packet, laid together, and numbered as follows No. 1. Papers arrived from London in the month of September of the present year, and probably the last written by Assessor Swedenborg's own hand.

No. 2. Projects and Memorials presented on different political occasions.

No. 3. Correspondence with and controversial writings against the deceased councillor of commerce, Nordencrantz, and President Von Oehlreich.

No. 4. Letters from the bishop Dr. Jesper Swedberg. No. 5. Do. From Lewis, Printer in London. No. 6. Do. From John Hart, printer in London. No. 7. Do. from P. Roger Docteur en Theologie, and Madame Johanna Corleva.

No. 8. Do. from Hekel, bookseller in Dresden. No. 9. Do. from George Schneider, in Hamburgh. No. 10. Do. from Joachim Wretham, in Amsterdam. No. 11. Do. from Margarretha Ahlstrom, in London. No. 12. Do. from Zacharias Stromberg, in Amsterdam. No. 13. Several first draughts of letters and answers, written by himself.

No. 14. Several foreign letters, and among them some from the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgh, and from Ch. Wolfius.

No. 15. Letters from his relations and friends, particularly from his brother in law, the Archbishop Doctor Eric Benzelius, and Probst J. Unge.

No. 16. Letters from L. Baron Von Hatzel, Chev. Grand Croix de l'Ordre de St. George, together with his Excellency's the Councellor of State, Count Gustav. Bonde's letter of the 7th August, 1760 and the answer afterwards given to it by Assessor Swedenborg.

17. and 18. Letters from Herman Oberreit, Johannes Caspar, Lavater and Christian Tuxen.

19. Letters from Abbas F. C. Ottinger, of the years 1765, 1766, 1767, 1768, with which are found the first draughts of three answers.

No. 20. Four letters from different persons.

No. 21. First draughts of several letters.

No. 22. Letters from Polheim, Klingenstierna, A. Celsius, N. Shenmark, the Academies of Upsula and Abo, and several bishops.

No. 23. Powers of attorney general, and special, as well as other documents relative to Assessor Swedenborg's private affairs.

Stockholm, the 27th of October, 1771.

On the part of the heirs of Swedenborg :

NO. IV.

E. WENNEBORG.

C. BENTZELSTIERNA.

Letter of Emanuel Swedenborg to the king of Sweden on the subject of the persecution which he received from the clergy. It is without date, but probably written about 1769.

Sire: I find myself necessitated at this period to have recourse to your majesty's protection, having met with usage of such a nature, as no other person has experienced since the establishment of Christianity in Sweden, and much less since there has been liberty of conscience. The following is an abridgment of the particulars that are the occasion of my requesting your majesty's interference.

On my arrival in Sweden from foreign parts, I was informed that bishop Filenius had suppressed and seized the copies of my treatise De Amore Conjugiali, that I had printed in Holland, and which were sent to Norkjoping. Having inquired of some bishops, whether bishop F. had acted in this manner from his own authority, or that of the clerical body, they replied, that they had heard of the affair, but that none of them had been consulted about it, or had given his consent thereunto; and that there was

not one word set down in the journal of the ecclesiastical court concerning it. Some ecclesiastics at Gottenburg being emboldened by this inconsiderate and violent conduct of the bishops, began to speak and declaim loudly against my writings, and so far succeeded as to have an assembly appointed for their examination, consisting of some bishops and professors in divinity. This assembly continued sitting for the space of some months, and at length made a favorable report, which stopped the mouths of those accusers at once; their attempts were then thought to cease, and the affair to have an end. То prevent all thought of its being rekindled, it was concluded, that a petition should be presented to your majesty, to issue orders to the chancellor of justice, to give an information of the authors who had raised the disturbance at Gottenburg. The bishop and deacon of that place, who were the principal movers in this affair, seeing the little success of their project to engage the body of the clergy, to light up the fire for which they had made ready the materials, had recourse to calumnies and injuries, and filled twenty printed leaves with invectives, which they circulated amongst the public. I was farther informed, that your majesty, hearing of this dispute, took it under your own consideration, decided it in the senate, and ordered the chancellor to forward letters relative thereto to the consistory at Gottenburg.

I had no notice sent me of all these proceedings; my person, writings, and sentiments on the worship of my Lord our Savior, were attacked and persecuted, and I have neither been called to make my defence, nor been heard respecting it: but truth itself has answered for me. The accounts that were published at Gottenburg on this matter, did not touch the substance of the cause, and were filled with invectives and gross injuries. The first account I had of these papers, was from a general commissary of war at Elseneur, (General Tuxen,) and a friend at Stockholm, who lent them to me for a day; and I found therein two letters of bishop F. wherein it is said, that he should meddle no more in it. I am desirous to convince the world, that all these proceedings from their beginning

to their end, have been carried on without my having ever been heard. A rumor has nevertheless spread throughout Stockholm, that the chancellor of justice has declared in writing to the consistory at Gottenburg, that my writings are prohibited from being brought into that place, under the penalty of fifty dollars; and that my revelations have been declared false, and not truth. I have already informed your majesty, and beseech you to recall it to, mind, that the Lord our Savior manifested himself to me in a sensible personal appearance; that he has commanded me to write what has been already done, and what I have still to do: that he was afterwards graciously pleased to endow me with the privilege of conversing with angels and spirits, and to be in fellowship with them. I have already declared this more than once to your majesty in the presence of all the royal family, when they were graciously pleased to invite me to their table with five senators, and several other persons; this was the only subject discoursed of during the repast. Of this I also spoke afterwards to several other senators; and more openly to their excellencies count de Tessin, count Bonde, and count Hopken, who are still alive, and were satisfied with the truth of it. I have declared the same in England, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, and at Paris, to kings, princes, and other particular persons, as well as to those in this kingdom. If the common report is believed, the chancellor has declared, that what I have been reciting are untruths, although the very truth. To say that they cannot believe and give credit to such things, therein will I excuse them, for it is not in my power to place others in the same state that God has placed me, so as to be able to convince them by their own eyes and ears of the truth of those deeds and things I have made publicly known. I have no ability to capacitate them to converse with angels and spirits, neither to work miracles to dispose or force their understandings; to comprehend what I say. When my writings are read with attention and cool reflection (in which many things are to be met with as hitherto unknown) it is easy enough to conclude, that I could not come by such knowledge, but by a real vision, and converse with those who are in the spiritual