194 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
English Prince might be chosen as _heir-apparent. Alstromer 
was frightened, showed the letter to Tessin, and the latter to the 
Council of State, which uttered the desire that Bl. should be 
removed. At-this juncture a person came to BI. stating that he 
had been saaaecie! sent by a high English personage, who had 
ap k o 
ordered him to apply . King [Oscar] Fredri d offer him a 
considerable fac of money, if he would support the project, and 
that Bl. would become a powerful man, if he were able to carry 
the same through. The King was warned by someone of Black- 
well’s perilous proposition. Bl. presented himself to the heed to 
show the letter received from England, cope ng eg tual] 
e kne F the messenger who brought the letter to Bl. 
The English Satirely denied that they sent anybody. When 
bibles s] house was being pulled down, a corpse was found 
nclosed in a wall; perhaps it was he ? [7.e. the messenger]. 
have come into the mind of the pious (piwm) T., although such 
acts are a small matter to mi oe men of State. And Bl. had 
richly deserved his fate. 
“ Blackwell ae with a commission agent in Stockholm, 
least ney ier ned in moderation, and fixed her Baie on Black- 
well. ee Sora of the College of Commerce, who strenu- 
ously supported the manufacturers, was so treated by Black. in 
his illness, that he hin pu = that Blackw. took the life of 
rake, some guessed [hin English infi "Ne ’ 
. 1878, PP 39-38, ] by English influence. emesis 
rs point out that as Alstromer was an intimate 
friend a Linné, the facts, at least of the early part of the above 
narrative, se derived from authentic sour 
ere is a hg account of Blackwell’s protracted trial in Frey, 
SS , Pp. 364-384 ; 417-441. Prof. T. M. Fries sums it up 
