LINNJEUS PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 



the great and learned could not intrust their treasures to better care than 

 that which Linn.^eus took. Count Chak.les Gyllenborg was the 

 first who set an example of" liberality, by contributing towards that 

 museum. 



Count Charles Gyllenborg was descended of an ancient and 

 respe£lablc family, one of whose members was created a count in the 

 reign of Charles XII. The name of the former is in various respeSs 

 celebrated in the history of Sweden. The display of his political fame 

 was made at London, wher^ he resided for several years in quality of 

 ambassador from the court of Siockholm. Here his conduQ brought upon 

 him a singular misfortune. By command of George I. he was taken into 

 custody on the 9th of February 1717. It was reported that from some 

 letters which had been intercepted, it appeared that the Count carried 

 on a conspiracy with the enemies of his Britannic Majesty and the 

 partisans of the late Pretender. The British co' rt in the letter which 

 it delivered to the foreign ambassadors, in justification of its conduQ:, 

 expressly stated, that the Count had endeavoured to spirit up his Ma- 

 jesty's subjefts into a rebellion against their sovereign. A commission 

 was appointed to enquire into this charge, but upon examination no 

 iolid proofs appeared against him. Meanwhile his epistolary corres- 

 pondence with Baron Goertz, who fell a viftim to his machinations 

 in the year 1719, and with Baron Sparre, and other Swedish ministers, 

 was published. In the first letter Goertz confessed he was the author 

 of " The Remarks of an English Merchant.^" a work which had excited 

 great sensation at that epoch. Owing to the interference of the French 

 cabinet, and the representations of other courts. Count Gyllenborg 

 was released in July 1717, and sent back to Sweden in an English ship. 



