The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-02-06
The unfortunate Erick BolIman knows all, and
ere this believe, unfoIded all!
Nay yoS live till Monde, next! G.
From the aurora.
oUID STATESMEN.


DR.. Boil,nan, now prifoaer under charge
Of treafon againft the u. S. is native of Haya,
near Bremen, lately under the dominion of the
king Of England he was educated at Coffin
gen ftudied phy6c, and made figure 'at the
mott celebrated places in the circles OF gaiety
in Europe, AK La Chapelle, Cariiruhe, &c.
&c. he pafIed to Paris and there was known as
an occulih there the French revolution found
him and his faculties were 70 verfatile as to
render him ufeful to the royaiR az we'll as the
republican many ofth former are faid to owe
their lives to his boldnefs and enterprise in eff
feeling their efcape from France to England.
There he undertook TO 60 to Germany to ex-
tricate La Fayette. He fettled at OmutZ as
aphy6cian, the Saxons fpeak the puret Ger
man, and Bollman fpcaks and writes German,
French, and Engij6, with the purity fcarcely
credible for any man to acquire in languages 10
different in their ffru6ture. With the gallant
Mr.. Huger, of South Carolina, he at length
fucceeded in obtaining the liberty OF air and
exercife for La Fayette |; and had 70 far fuc-
ceeded as to place La Fayette on horfeback, to
purfue road agreed upon, while Boilman man.
aged the officer of the guard. Bollman and
Huger both efcaped, but Fayette took the wrong
road, and was re-capturrd. tits E,id that Boil
man was the fhccefsful negoriator at Berlin, by
which Prnfiia delivered FLyrtte over to Auitrla,
and thereby contributed TO his ultimate releafe
through the rsqu6lion of Bonaparte to the then
emperor of Germany.
Bollman il feems was taken ard himftlf con-
veyed to Olmutz, and detained there for eight
mouths but on bold and vivid repfetentati-
on OF his cafe, and declaration that he would
never enter the Auftrian 6omiuions, aided by
certain other influence, he was releafed. He
was foon after on the verge of marriage with
che daughter Of Ramaris the chief burgher OF
Hamburg, but this was fruRrated by the intel
terence of jealous rival at one OF the German
courts. Bollman was deeply engaged IN dipls-
,natie agencies in Hamburg, which induced him
60 remove TO America, and he made tour of
the United States, obtaining by the eeiat OF La
FAyefte'J enterprize, general and generous re-
ception. His view of the commerce and its va
rieties in the United States, he publi!hed in a
circular letter in the German language, and adj
drcfIed It with 70 much fuccefs to feveral houfes
in the north of Europe that the GoS0r very
foon became merchant, and fat down in this
city where he exhibited fpendid equipage,
and pofeifed talents the mot general, and ad-
irefS the mott engaging and plaltic +; he married
ihe daughter Of one of our mott respectable
citizens fhc died abont two years ago, leaving
two lovely children; few weeks after heI
death, Mr.. Boiman failed it is faia for ium
of 100000 dollars but we fufpe6 that fun il
much beyond the faf however, his failure ID
where he engaged in the trade in grain and o.
ther fpeculations. Mr.. Burr, who appears to
have medltated his recent enterprize for many
years and who had tried and tempted almo0
every man of talents in the country, found Mr.
Bollman qualified by temper, for bold under.
takings, and by education and habit for con-
dueting them with plaufbility and addrefs--he
left this city for New Orleans about the 6rlt o.
Auguf, but took the precaution of engaging hi'
paf1age at New.Caftle, where he was not known
I've barrel, (nLpeH that he was the perfon en-.
gagged by Burr to p opofe and enter into engage
ments with genera! Wi'kinjon.
Mr.. Burr was in this city in jane laf, Mr.
Bollman is fuppofed to have been the intermedi
airy agent between the Marquis 1inie and Mr.
Burr /; and it is fsd that he has already unfold
ed matter which will be laid before the court o.
Spain
The remainder of Mr.. Boman's hifory il
unlimited. But the little emperor of the quid
appears to have rivaed Seapin, the celebrated
Spanifh cheat in the variety and number of hi
adventures, and the dexterity with which ht
has extricated himfelf and involved all arount
him.