THEODORE AlfTHONY I. KING OF CORSICA. S85 
respective posts which he had assigned them ; a demonstrative proof 
this, that he was not forced out of the island, did not quit in disgust, 
^r leave it in a manner inconsistent with his royal character. 
Thus ended the reign of Theodore, who arrived in a few days, in the 
disguise of an abbe, at Livonia, and thence, after a short stay, conveyed 
himself nobody knew whither. The next year, however, he appeared at 
Paris ; was ordered to quit the kingdom in forty-eight hours ; precipL 
lately embarked at Rouen, and arrived at Amsterdam, attended by four 
Italian domestics ; took up his quarters at an inn, and there two citizens 
arrested him, on a claim of sixteen thousand florins. But he soon obtained 
a protection, and found some merchants, who engaged to furnish him 
with a great quantity of ammunition for his faithful islanders. He 
accordingly went on board a frigate of fifty-two guns, and one hun- 
dred and fifty men ; but was soon afterwards seized at Naples, in the 
house of the Dutch consul, and sent prisoner to the fortress of Ceuta. 
This unhappy king, whose courage had raised him to a throne, not by 
a succession of bloody acts, but by the free choice of an oppressed 
nation, for many years struggled with fortune, and left no means 
untried which policy could attempt, to recover his crown. At length 
he chose England for the place of his retirement, where he might 
enjoy that liberty which he had so vainly attempted to give to his Cor- 
sicans; but his situation here by degrees grew wretched, and he was 
reduced so low as to be, several years before his death, a prisoner 
for debt in the King’s Bench. 
To the honour of some private persons, a charitable contribution was 
set on foot for him in 1753 ; and in 1757, at the expense of the late 
lord Orford, a marble monument was erected to his memf)ry, in the 
church yard of St. Anne’s, Westminster, with the following inscription 
Near this place is interred 
4 - Theodore King of Corsica, 
who died in this parish December 11, 1756, 
immediately after leaving the 
King’s-bench prison, 
by the benefit of the Act of Insolvency ; 
in consequence of which, 
fie registered his kingdom of Corsica, for the use of 
his Creditors. 
The grave, great teacher, to a level brings 
Heroes and beggars, galley-slaves and kings. 
But Theodore this moral learn’d ere dead, — • 
Fate poured its lesson on his living head ; 
Bestowed a kingdom, and denied him bread. 
Theodore had a son, known by the name of Colonel Frederic, who, 
after following his father into England, entered into the army in foreign 
service ; but he appears to have been disappointed in his hopes of 
rising, or acquiring even a competence, and after sustaining many 
distresses, without timely relief, put an end to his life by a pistol, 
iisar the gate of Westminster Abbey, Feb. 1, 1797. He was a man 
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