LINNAEUS PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 
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the great and learned could not intrust their treasures tabetter care than 
that which Linn.eus took. Count Charles Gyllenborg was the 
first who set an example of liberality, by contributing towards that 
museum. 
Count Charles Gyllenborg was descended of an ancient and 
respectable family, one of whose members was created a count in the 
reign of Charles XII. The name of the former is in various respefts 
celebrated in the history of Sweden. The display of his political fame 
was made' at London , where he resided for several years in quality of 
ambassador from the court of Stockholm. Here his conduft brought upon 
him a singular misfortune. By command of George I. he was taken into 
custody on the gth 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 court in the letter which 
it delivered to the foreign ambassadors, in justification of its conduH, 
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 
solid 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. 
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