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means of a fe/f-adoption, became the heir 
to his claims, and our bounty. I myfelf 
know, from circumftances, that the laft 
affertion is unfounded, and I think pro- 
bability, as well as liberality, lean ftrong- 
ly to the fide of the royal filiation, which 
he affumed, and which has been general- 
ly attributed to him. ; 
Theodore, rendered fo celebrated by 
his exploits and misfortunes, was the 
fon of Anthony Baron Neuhoff. His fa- 
ther claimed his def-ent from one of the 
moft noble and illuftrious houfes in the 
county of fa Marck; but he had dif- 
graced himfelf in the eyes of his family, 
and excited the indignation of the neigh- 
bouring nobility, by following the dic- 
tates of love and honour, and marrying 
the daughter of a merchant of Nifeu! 
In confequence of this offence, which may 
be termed a German crime, fince it is lefs 
eafily expiated there, than any one in 
the decalogue, he repaired to France; 
where he foon after died, leaving a fon, 
Etienne Theodore, anda daughter, Eliza- 
beth, behind him. The duchets of Or- 
leans took the orphans under her own 
immediate protection. The boy was ap- 
pointed page to the duke regent, who 
gave him a company in the regiment of 
fa Marck, and tne girl,-after attending 
for fome time on the perfon of her bene- 
factrefs, as maid of honour, was married 
to the count de Trévoux. 
Young Neuhoff, who is faid to have 
- imbibed an heroic ardour from the peru- 
fal of Plutarch, ferved under Charles 
XII, and was employed by his minitter, 
the famous Baron Gortz, in a diplomatic 
c2pacity at the court of Spain, whence 
he was fent, by Cardinal Alberoni, to 
England, in order to found the J :co- 
bites :—for feveral princes had combined, 
even then, to place a pretender on the 
throne of an independent nation ! 
After this, we find him a colonel in 
the Spanifh fervice, and the hufband of 
Iady Sarsfield, daughter of lord Kilmal- 
lock, vf the kingdom of Ireland, who 
had taken refuge in Madrid, and become 
a maid of honour to the queen, in con- 
fequence of the attachment of her pro- 
genitors to James If. By this lady he 
had a fon, fuppofed to be the gentleman 
in queftion, who was born in the year 
1725. 
Theodore, who had been difappointed 
in his expectations of riches, from an al- 
liance with ‘the noble family of Lucan, | 
repaired to France, catered into Law’s 
aie: e Nie a 5] AK: . 
wild projeéts refpecting ‘the Mulfifippi 
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[Feb 
company; and foon after the bubble had 
burft, fet out for Florence, where he 
remained fome time as minifter plenipo- 
tentiary for the emperor. There he 
formed an acquaintance with prince 
Louis, of Wurtemburg, then command. 
er in chief, and many of the principal 
families of Corfica; and having landed 
in Aleria, one of the ports of that ifland, 
on the 15th of March, 1736, to the fur- 
prife of all Europe, he was unanimoufl 
elected King, on the 15th, of April fol- 
lowing. His crown confifted not of gold 
and precious ftones, but of a branch of 
laurel, after the manner of the ancient 
heroes ; and the joyful inhabitants, hop- 
ing for a fpeedy deliverance from the 
yoke of Genoa by his means, pierced 
the air with the fhouts of “ Linerty 
FOR EVER!— Lone Live THEo- 
DORE |!” 
His proclamation, which is now before 
me, is worthy of the occafion, and breatheg 
a ma{culine {pirit, well fuited to the de- 
liverer of an oppreffed people. 
Soon after his elevation, he inftituted one 
of thofe military companionfhips whofe 
traces are to be found among our Ger- 
man anceftors, but which philofophy has 
nearly brought into contempt, and termed 
it the ORDER OF DELIVERANCE; he 
alfo ruck money with the arms of his 
kingdom on one fide, the reverfe was in 
exprefs conformity to the ignorance -of 
the people, who were, and ftill are, ab- 
jectly fuperftitious, merely. becaufe they 
are comtemptidly ighorant. It confifted 
of the image of the Bleed Virgin! The 
legend was ftriétly appropriate, and the 
idea that it conveyed, criticifm apait, 
mutt be allowed at leaft to have poffeffed 
aptitude : 
MONSTRA TE ESSE MATREM. 
SHOW THYSELF A MOTHER ! 
Another coin may be ftill feen in the 
cabinets of the curious, impreffed with 
T. R. (THeoporvus REx) in Roman 
characters, and dated 1736. The reverfe 
is Pro Bono PuB ico, with the value 
(fol di cinque) expreffed in the field *. 
After a variety of adventures, this un- 
fortunate princesrepaired to England, 
where he found a prifon and a grave; 
for John Baptift Gaftaldi, the refident 
from Genoa, contrived that he fhould be 
arrefted for goo]. for which he had pro- 
* See Recueil Général des P ces Objidurales 
& de Neceffite, par M. Pierze Anacher Lebiefen 
Duly, 3 vols. Imp, 400. 
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