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LINNiEUS 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. 
Gyllenborg afterwards waited onKingCHARLEsXII. 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 Russia 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 an aaive part, he was 
made president of chancery, minister for the foreign and home depart- 
ments, and soon after chancellor of the university of Upal. 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 Decem- 
ber 1746, too soon for the university of Upal, 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 
F R e d E R 1 c k A d o l p h u s , then Prince Royal of Sweden, who presented the 
university 
