i62 LINN.EUS PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 



As soon as he arrived at Stockholm, the British ambassador was likewise 

 liberated from confinement, as the Swedish court had thought proper 

 to use reprisals. 



GvLLEN BORG after wards waited on King Charles XII. whose favour 

 he had long ago gained by his zeal and abilities. He was appointed 

 with Baron Goertz, minister plenipotentiary at the conferences of pa- 

 cification which were opened with the court of Rusiia in the isle of 

 Aland, but which terminated without success. In the year 1719 he was 

 raised to the dignity of high chancellor of Sweden. In the beginning 

 of the following year he also afted an important part in the negotiations 

 respecting the acession of Frederick I. to the throne, and gained 

 constantly greater influence during the reign of this monarch, who ap- 

 pointed him counsellor of the Swedish empire and chancellor of the 

 university of Lund, and in the year 1739, when a great change took 

 place in the senate and ministry, in which he took ana£live part, he was. 

 made president of chancery, minister for the foreign and home depart- 

 ments, and soon after chancellor of the university of Upsal. Count 

 Tessin, who was then ambassador at the court of Versailles, received,, 

 in a short time after, the appointment of vice-president of chancery. 

 Count Gyllemborg died between sixty and seventy years of age. 

 He was an able minister, an erudite author, and a fellow of the royal 

 society of London. Death snatched him away on the 14th of Decemr 

 ber 1746, too soon for the university of Upsal, to which he left his. 

 cabinet of natural history, remarkable for a great number of am^ 

 phibies and corals. During the latter part of his life he had the ho- 

 nourable satisfaction of seeing his example of munificence imitated by 

 Frederick Adolphusj then Prince Royal Sweden, 'wlio presented the 



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