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SOME ACCOUNT
CELEBRATED ‘FAOLY OF FRANK,

♦T OFEENBACII. IN GERMANY.

[from a German Paper f tic l!th instant

I'o those who are interested in the history of the
secret societies of modern times, the tollowing ac-
count of a mysterious family, settled since the year
1787, at Offenbach, in the circle of Upper Rhine,
and its subsequent operations, cannot fail to prove
acceptable. It is compiled from authentic sources,
and the informatiun it contains has never before
been published.
In the year 1787, a person calling himself Baron
Frank, arrived at Offenbach, the residence of the
Prince of Isenburg-Birstein. He was accompanied
by a daughter of the name of Eve ; two sons,
Roch and Joseph, and a retinue of about sixteen
persons. He exhibited the appearance of great
opulence; and therefore easily obtained permission
to settle at Offenbach, and to send for the rest of his
dependants. Their number soon increased to 800
or 1,000 persons, who lived, externally, like a con-
gregation of Moravians. They wore the Polish
dress, and part of them went armed ; they mostly
boarded in the house of their leader, and appeared
to be no farther canneeted by the ties of religion,
than by their holding occasional meetings. Theis'
conduit in other tespeas was quiet and inoffensive.
It was not till some time afterwards that the family
of Frank began to display such extraordinary splen-
dour, and almost to rival, in magnificence, the
Court of a Sovereign power. Indeed it was ac-
knowledged as such by its adherents, whom its
memhei s were accustomed to denominate najeas.
Joseph sometimes undertook long and distant Jour-
neys, as it was said, to Petersburg's, Warsaw, Ve-
nice, Sec. but nothing certain was known concern-
ing the ohjed or direaion of these peregrinations
Their remittances were not made by means of
bankers, but in specie, and privately, in waggons.
attended by an escort. Baron Frank likewise ob-
tained credit of many individuals, who, when they
afterwards found themselves reduced to beggary,
by their imprudence, partly joined his adherents.
In this number was Hestermann, an eminent mer-
chant of Frankfort, with his wife and five children ;
and a Jew, named Kohlman, who, being ruined
by the advances they had made, to the amount of
300,000 gulden, formally went over to them, and
frequently received the discipline of the cane, while
learning the exercise of the body-guard, in which
they were placed. The father died in the year
1792, in a very advanced age, leaving debts to the
amount of from 6 to 800,000 gulden. After his
death, his daughter in some measure assumed the
precedency over both her brothers ; she increased
the expences of her establishment, and even seemed
to aspire to the title of Princess. On the other hand,
their resources diminished, and great part of their
adherents returned from Offenbach to Poland.
Many of the creditors grew urgent, and in the year
Me the Government of Isenburg, for the first
time. took notice of the state of the finances of this
family. To divert the storm for a time, the sister
and her brothers had recourse to every kind of arti-
fice and evasion. When these were no longer of
any avail, an extraordinary written declaration was,
on the 17th of linua: y, 1800, delivered to the Go-
vernment of Isenburg. In this paper they asserted,
with the most shameless impudence, that the Enver
tor of Russia would pay all their debts. This riddle
was soon resolved; it now began to be privately
whispered, that Eve was awn sister to Paul, the late
Emperor of Russia ; that it was on this account the
family had gone into mourning on the decease of
the Empress Catharine; and that Baron Joseph, who,
as well as his brother, WAS actually the son of old
Baran Frank, would bring with him, from Peters-
burgh, the formal recognition of the Princess. and
the money. This report was propagated by men,
who concealed their crafty designs beneath the mask
of simplicity, and the most rigid honesty ; and they
'likewise asserted, bat only in the closest confidence,
that the Princess would soon be put in possession of
rich and extensive provinces. To give plausibil ty
to this tale, the family of Frank recalled many of
its adl.ercnts hoist Poland ; paid the smallest and
most urgent of the creditors, with money partly ob-
tained in a private manner, and partly borrcwcd of
easy credulity ; made presents to the Catholic
Church at Offenbach ; distributed gifts among the
poor of that place, and endeavoured, by every pos-
sible artifice, to delude the public.
During the year 1800, the members of this fa-
mily made proposals to various synagogues both in
t ler many and other countries, for the establishment
of a new religious community, under the name of
the sea of Edlrn. To a rich Jew, named Speyer,
residing in Offenbach, this invitation was commu-
nicated by means of a particular agent, who, at the
same time, endeavoured to procure from him the
loan of a considerable sum.
The origin of this family. the extent of their con-
nections, their objects and pecuniary resources, are
still enveloped in obscurity. In tolerating a society,
which formed, as it were, a slates in state, the Go-
verrment of Isenburg was actuated only by a desire
of adding to the prosperity of the new residence of
01knbach ; it therefore never expressed the least re-
sentment at the above•mentioned ne morial, but ra-
ther end- ay.,ured to accommodate matters. Among
the inhabitants and neighbours, none was particu-
larly anxious to dive to the bottom of their machi-
nations. Ths attention of travellers, statesmen, and
writers, was, therefore, not so powerfully excited as
might have been expected. The family cautiously
denies access to every inquisitive stranger, and the
inquiries of those who contrive to procure admit-
tance, are answered only by cold formality and re-
serve. 'the entrance to their house was constantly
guarded by from four to six armed Hulans, and no
person was admitted without permission, excepting
those ago came by express appointment.
That the objea of their residence at Offenbach
could have been of a religious nature can scat cely
be supposed, for they admitted, indiserinonately,
both Jews and Christians. The latter seldom go to
church, excepting when they attend the family to the
Catholic worship. They formerly held public meet-
ings in a wood, but these were afterwards dropped.
It is not known that since their residence at Offen-
bach a single couple has been married ; but their
new-barn children ate christened by the Calvinist
minister. Their youth receive no iustruiftion, either
moral or religious ; no trade is learned or exercised
either by the young or old. Indolence has recently