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cured him credit with a merchant in the 
city, and after lingering for fome time, in 
great mifery, in the King’s Bench, he 
was finally cleared by an aét of infol- 
vency, in which he delivered up his 
kingdom to his ailignees! He died foon 
after this, at an obfcure lodging, No. 5, 
Little Chapel-ftreet, on the 11th of 
Dec. 1755, and was buried in St. Ann’s 
church-yard. His epitaph, by Horace 
Walpole, is known to évery one ; but 
the following tranflation of it, by his fon, 
will, perhaps, afford fome fatisfaétion to 
the curious. It was prefented to me by 
himfelf, about ten years fince : 
‘¢ Le tombeau réunit, c’eft la commune loi, 
““ Le héros, le captif, le mendiant, le rot ; 
«¢ Mais Théodore feul avant !’heure fatale 
“ Franchit de ces états le diftant intervalle, 
6 Et le fort envers Jui liberal, inhumain, 
“ Lui fit don d’unroyaume, & refufa du pain.” 
- While Theodore was dividing his time 
between royalty and a jail, his fon, by 
lady Kilmallock, feems alfo to have be- 
come, like himfelf, the {port of fortune. 
Born at Madrid, he is faid to have been 
educated at Rome, under Lobcowitz, a 
profeffor celebrated in his day, in contfe- 
quence of a Latin treatife on aftronomy. 
Whoever may have been his mafter, 
certain it is, that he was an excellent 
fcholar, and not only fpoke, but wrote, 
German, Spanith, French, and Italian, 
with great fluency. 
He arrived in this country about for- 
ty-three years fince, and foon formed 
many refpeétable acquaintances ; among 
thofe of a later date, may be reckoned 
the prefent lord chanceilor, then Mr. 
Wedderburne, whom he often vifited at 
his chambers, and to whom he lent a copy 
of Gravina, an elegant wr'ter on the civil 
jaw, the ftudy of whofe works he was 
accuftomed to recommend. Wéauth the 
late Dr. Shebbeare, and the prefent Mr. 
Murphy, he was very intimate, and al- 
ways profefled a great attachment for 
men of letters. 
From the king’s mother, who com- 
paifionated the fituation of diftreffed roy- 
alty, | have repeatedly heard him fay, 
that he received a confiderable fum of 
-movey for the payment of certain debts 
which his own neceffities, and thofe of his 
family, had forced him reluétantly to 
contract. A lady, well known during 
the duke of Grafton’s adminiftration, 
whofe name has been immortalied by 
the pen of Junius, and which I fhall not 
here reveal, out of refpect-to-her re- 
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133 
cent title, is alfo faid to have affifted, 
and even to have been greatly attached 
tohim. TI have, likewife, feme reafon to 
think, that he was perjonal/y known to 
the king, as a claimant on the bounty of 
his mother, the princefs dowager of 
Wales ; and it may be feen from the pre- 
face to his work, entitled, * Mémoires 
pour fervir a l’Hiftoire de Corfe,” that it 
was written expre({sly for the information 
of the late duke of York. I have re- 
peatedly heard him affert, and actually 
believe, that his royal highnefs had con- 
ceived the wild and romantic project of 
becoming king of Corfica, which has 
fince, unfortunately, perhaps, for thisna- 
tion, been realifed by an auguft relative. 
Mr. Frederick, who is faid to have 
obtained the drevez rank of colonel from 
the duke of Wurtemburg, as well as the 
crofs of merit, tranfaéted bufinefs in this 
country for that prince, although he 
never received any regular diplomatic 
miffion from him. In confequence of his 
orders, however, he fold a regiment of 
Wirtembergers to the Eaft India company, 
which having been landed in oppofition 
to that falutary jealoufy with which our 
coniiitution furveys foreign troops, a 
forma] complaint was made on this fub- 
jeét by Colonel Barry, in the houfe of 
commons, 
During the American war, he alfo 
tendered a body of men to lord North, 
which gave rife to certain claims on our 
government, for maintenance, &c. and 
eccafioned a variety of memorials to that 
nobleman, as well as his fucceffors in 
office, lord Shelburne (now marquis of 
Lanfdowne) Mr. Fox, and Mr. Pitt. 
Colonel Frederick was more fuccefsful 
in other quarters. A lady, united to the | 
duke of Wurtemburg, by what is termed 
a left-handed marriage, in Germany, and 
‘who is faid to have been related to the 
fubjeét of thefe memoirs, fent him 
{mall fums of money from time to time 5 
and the prefent commodore fir John 
Borlace Warren, not only conferred 
many -favours on himfelf, but actually 
purchafed a commiificn for his fon. 
The Colonel was employed by the 
Prince of Wales (to whom, if I am not 
miftaken, he was introduced by Mr. 
Welje) refpefting the Antwerp loan 
for his royal highnefs and his brothers, 
which was defeated by the paternal in- 
teryention of his majefty ; his name is to 
be found in the’ account of that rranf- 
ation, written in French and Duich, 
and he vifited the continent, replere with 
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