In a letter addressed to Baron Görtz, dated from London, January 23, 1717, by Count Gyllenborg, there occur some passages in which the latter, the then Swedish ambassador at the Court of St. James’s, seems to profess himself the author of The Northern Crisis,[57] the title of which he does not, however, quote. Yet any idea of his having written that powerful pamphlet will disappear before the slightest perusal of the Count’s authenticated writings, such as his letters to Görtz.
“The Northern Crisis, Or, Impartial Reflections on the Policies of the Czar, occasioned by Mynheer Von Stocken’s Reasons for Delaying the Descent upon Schonen. A True Copy of which is prefixed, verbally translated after the Tenor of that in the German Secretary’s Office in Copenhagen, October 10, 1716.
Parvo motu primo mox se atiollit in auras.
[Having at first little impulsion, he presently rose into the air]
Virgil
London, 1716.
I. — Preface“... ’Tis (the present pamphlet) not fit for lawyers’ clerks, but it is highly convenient to be read by those who are proper students in the laws of nations; ‘twill be but lost time for any stock-jobbing, trifling dealer in Exchange-alley to look beyond the preface on’t, but every merchant in England (more especially those who trade to the Baltic) will find his account in it. The Dutch (as the courants and