Appendix. 



No. 1. 



Extract from the Minutes of the Church Council of the Swedish Congrega- 

 tion in London for July 4th, 1819, signed by Pastor J. P. Wahlin, 

 concerning the recovery of Swedenborgs skull. 



§ S. The Pastor asked for permission to hiy before tht^ Churcli Council 

 the skull of the deceased Assessor Swedenborg, which. — t be names of the 

 culprits being suppressed — had been stolen about a year and a half ago from 

 the casket in the Church vault, and by an accident seized by the Pastor when 

 it was about to be carried off to Sweden to enrich some private or public col- 

 lection of curios. — Since now it had been taken out of the casket the Pas- 

 tor thought that it had better be preserved as a rarity in the Church than to 

 be taken therefrom; and as it was known that the Swedenborgians here had long 

 desired to receive the same, and therefore had offered a considerable sum to those 

 who had privately appropriated it, the Pastor was requested to take careful charge 

 of it, in order that it might not again come into such unauthorized hands. 

 [In the margin of the minutes Pastor Wahlin afterwards wrote:] 

 It w as afterwards again laid down in the casket after a »Cast» of it had 

 been taken. 



J. P. W. 



No. i. 



An Article in ^The Times» for March 31st, 1823. 

 Emanuel Swedenhorg. 



A curious circuinslance relative to this once celebrated character, and 

 which excites unbounded interest amongst his numerous followers, has come to 

 light within these few weeks past. 



It appears that he departed this life aV) jut tifty years ago. and was buried 

 in the vault of a small churcli or chapel in the neighbourhood of Eatcliffe- 

 highway. Sometime after his interment, one of his disciples came over to Eng- 

 land, and — whether prompted by supernatural inspiration or by his own blind 

 superstition, does not appear — contrived, by means of bribing the sexton or 

 grave-digger, to gain admittance to the cemetery where his 'boå.j was deposited. 

 Here, in the silent hour of midnight (having previously supplied himself with 

 the necessary implements) he broke open the coffin, and severed the head from 



