EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
mote all propositions which have for their purpose to infuse new life into Swedish commerce, so as to make our balance even; and this for the sake of the private welfare of every one of us and also for that of our whole posterity." Next he shows that Sweden has lost, first, the revenues formerly derived from various provinces that have been conquered by Russia and Denmark; second, the freighting business which she formerly enjoyed, but which during her wars and by the decay of her shipping has gone into foreign hands; third, her former profitable commerce with the now lost provinces. Finally, he points out Swedish iron and copper mining interests as the most important in the balance of trade, and most worthy of attention, and concludes with recommending careful inquiry how the mercantile marine may be built up, unnecessary importation checked or cheapened, and domestic manufactures developed and protected.
On the 18th of the same month Swedenborg memorializes the Diet against the rule and law of the country which requires the mining of a baser metal to give way to that of a more noble, even when, as he shows, the fining of the baser by
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