This gentleman, an early and ardent friend to the constitutional liberties of Great Britain, and to their assertion in American, left Scotland immediately after the first struggle against the Stamp Act, and, with ample appointments from his father, settled a plantation in the then young colony of Georgia. His education had been liberal and extensive, for, through admitted an Advocate at Edinburgh, he had also regularly attended Dr. Cullen's Lectures; and the exuberant riches of his conversation discovered an intimacy with every branch of the litere humaniores, and with all the pursuits of modern science. But his acquisitions were not those of a pedant. A man, who, during two years residence in Paris, frequented there, circles, to which the Ambassador of his country (at that time, the late Duke of Richmond) introduced him; who traced in Switzerland, the retreats of Voltaire and Rousseau, with whom he formed a personal acquaintance; and who, in London, was the intimate of Boyd, Dr. Dodd, and many other distinguished characters, was not likely to suffer the erosions of Academic rust.
Having mentioned the Duke of Richmond, and the names of Boyd and Dodd, it will not be improper to introduce a notice respecting each of them. Mr. Bowman was the person, who, by letter, transmitted to the Duke of Richmond that information concerning the murder of Colonel Hayne, which his grace stated to the House of Peers, and which produced a challenge from Lord Rawdon, and this challenge, a retraction from the noble Duke.
In Campbell's life, Boyd, Mr. Bowman is mentioned as seconding, among other, Mr. Boyd's exertions to procure a pardon for a man who robbed him (Mr. Boyd) on the highway. The truth is, Mr Bowman thought Mr. Boyd rather too slack in his efforts; and had he not gone himself to Woolwich, procured testimonials and signatures to a petition, and then pushed it onto Lord Sandwich, the day of execution would have intercepted the coy advances of others. No! Mr. Bowman never second in the ranks of humanity. Where the prisoner expired, where the sick languished, where the destitute wandered forlorn, Mr Bowman obeyed no secondary attraction: he ever moved a primary round the sun of felling. Here, in the pentralia of humanity, are to be found, sacredly deposited, the chronicles of his fame. Among the wealthy, you may hear of his talents, but you will not find his heart. In the world, you might indeed see him, and see him brilliant; but you could not feel him; watch the efforts which were made during a whole night, (and I say, on Mr. B's authority, unsuccessfully made) to restore animation after the sentence of the law had been executed and then, and there, an in every scene, where one ray of hope could irradiate affliction, you will find Mr. Bowman. Nor did age render this nerve rigid. However his bodily powers yielded to long and severe suffering, his heart, his mind, his intellect, were still alive, and true to nature-He vibrated, throughout life, to every key she struck; Felt all her sweet emotions at his heart; and felling, was not remiss to nourish them; nor nourishing, ashamed to confess them.
Between such a man, and the friends of his bosom, his wife and his children, a commonplace parting parting was not to be expected. Suffice it to say, he was honoured by them, and is honored in them. Nor within the circle of unsophisticated feeling, among those who estimate him by their feelings, has he left a foe. He affected not Sylla's pride of enmity; for he was only a negative enemy; but he was a positive friend.

From the Charleston Times on July 11, 1807 page 3.