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The ship named Wilhelmina, that brought them ashore,. tried to return to sea ,but through the storms was driven back on the Meuse and without being stopped or searched they reached Dordrecht.Two passengers who refused to be brought ashore in a small boat by heavy wind went to a hotel in Dordrecht.

The crewmembers were Captain Jan Vlieland ,said Hollander of Rotterdam.,Johan Letzer or Litser of Zeeland and a Greek Constantino Variotto.

With the helpof the landlord and of a tobacconist de Vos van Rijswijk. Hollander succeeded to sell his ship for 200 guilders to the van Helmont brothers .

He had allready  bought himself a new ship,which he bought under the name of Captain Wullaart with the help of a customs facteur  Daniel de Bloot he obtained  a permit to sail from Zierikzee to Amsterdam.

Hollander a conscript  was in 1811 while under  supervision of the `high police` escaped to England.

the ship was in Dordrecht near tavern `the gold lion `

 During the night of 29 on 30 of November Pieter Messu ,Jan Baptista van der Voodt and Jan Vlieland said Hollander ,succeeded to escape from the ´madhouse´.
They warmed the iron hinges of their beds in a peat fire and burned through a brett in their prison.
After enlarging the hole , the went to the attick and lowered themselves,with blankets knotted together to a small alley . next to the madhouse on the highstreet.
Marivault was furious about the escape.
All his efforts to arrest these people were in vain.
He took measures to capture those three men again.
In the Rotterdam  newspaper   of 21/12/1813
we find  the following.

On the 25 November 1813 is missing a person dressed in a brown woolen vest, a long white linen shirt with 24 smooth silver buttons,silver watch, silver chain.Anyone who can point him out or return him to the madhouse in the highstreet  will be paid a huge reward .

According to John Down ,who moved from Rotterdam to Amsterdam ,where he became professor of languages after the French time,
Moore and May had the seal of Papenburg copied in Den Briel to obtain the necessary official papers .
At the end of June Moore and May borrowed a boat from Captain Vlieland, they shipped 20 passengers to Den Briel with it .
The shipping compamy did so well , that they bought a ship of their own and started a line on England.

The clippings  are from the Rotterdam yearbook .And the Rotterdam newspaper .
More about this trip or a similar one we can read in passage to Holland .

The outfit of a gentleman in 1813 looked like this.Ablack woollen vest .A white linen shirt .
This painting is` the fortuneteller .`