1797] 
capable of facrificing at the fhrine of fer- 
vility, or of purchafing favour by offering 
up incenfe to the ridiculous vanity of 
grandeur and opulence. He paid his 
court only to merit; he was bufied fole-— 
ly in perfeéting himfelf in the duties of a 
man, and in rendering himfelr worthy of 
efteem, leaving to others the tafk of do- 
ing him juftice. 
«‘ He honoured letters, and confecrated 
his lifeto them, He even became an au- 
thor, and endeavoured to gain a liveli- 
hood by his pen, during his diftrefs ; he 
alfotaught the Latin, Italian, and Spa- 
nifh languages, that he might be enab ed 
to maintain his own children, and fuc- 
cour his unfortunate father. 
“Tf he did not haughtily brave his def- 
tiny, he at leait fupported it with cou- 
rage and firmnefs. He was never heard 
_to blame providence, or to execrate man- 
kind, and attribute to them his neceifi- 
ties and mistortunes: for whatever 
- wrongs he might have experienced at 
their hands, ‘he never permitted hatred 
to enter into his brealt, knowing the 
difficulty of eradicating it, after it had 
once got pofleifion. In fine, he fubmit- 
ted kimfelf to his fate with perfect re- 
fignation, for his heart was always obe- 
dient to the decrees of heaven; and in 
order the more fully to teftify his fub- 
million, and accommedate nae! to his 
deftiny, he abjured the tinfel of titles, 
and affumed only his baptifmal, which 
he converted into a family name He 
thus aifo endeavoured to obviate that 
{corn to which nobility, when deprived 
of wealth, is almoft always expofed ; and 
it was on the fame account he decked 
himfelf out only in his own natural qua- 
lities, which were the fole patrimony 
that neither the fury of rortune, nor the 
malice of mankind could diveft him of.’ 
‘Such is the charaé€ter of Colonel Fre- 
derick, as drawn up by his own pen. 
He never appeared to be afluent, and 
yet never exhibited any fymptoms of 
want, untila little before his melancho- 
_lyend. Heretired early to reff. and rofe 
betimes in the morning, often reading by 
candle-light. Frugal in his diet, won- 
derfully abitemious in refpeét to wine, 
and addicted to no extravagance of any 
kind ; the fum expended by the wealthy 
In a fingle entertainment, would have 
ferved the Prince of Capraja for a whele 
year. Whata pity that he was not included 
in fome Haneyerian, Hethian, or Auftrian 
fibfidy !—the property of the nation has 
been often wafted on objedis lefs worthy 
of public munificence ! 
Original Poche = ad Frederick. 
135 
That his mind has been deranged ever 
fince Chrifimas laft, as has been afferted, 
I have reafon to doubt, from the teftimo- 
ny of a gentleman who converfed with 
him but three days previous to his un- 
happy eat. The caufe attributed (an 
expected arreft) was fcarcely commen- 
furate with the event; for he had ofiea 
experienced the refentment of unfeeling 
creditors, and more than once witneffed 
the griping exactions of a {punging- 
houfe. The whole of hisdebts did not 
exceed goo/. and it is not a little re- 
markable, that this fum has always 
proved fatal to his family. | 
On the afternoon of his death, he 1s 
faid to have dined, and drank his half 
pint of port, as ufual, at the Siorey's- 
gate coffee-houfe, Wefiminfter. After 
reading the Evening Paper, with his 
accuftomed ferenity, he repaired to the 
gate of Weftmintter Abbey, and met his 
fate in the immediate neighbourhood of 
our heroes and kings, with the fame un- 
concern as his countrymen of old: 
‘6 Prodiga gens anima, & properare facillinsa 
“¢ mortem, 
“ Namgue ubi tranfcendit florentes viribug 
‘¢ annos, 
‘ Impatiens zevi f{pernit noviffe fenetam, 
«< Et fati modus in dextra eft.” 
Thus perifhed Colonel Frederick, ac- 
cording to the hint contained in one of 
his own works, in the feventy-fecond 
(but if we are to believe the refpectable 
teftimony of his friends, in the feventy- 
fifth) year of his age. 
His body is depofited in St. Anne’s 
church yard, within a few yards of chat 
of Theodore. Their fate is connected 
by a melancholy fimilarity; equally un- 
fortunate through lite, they are at length 
united in death, and occupy a common 
grave, in a foreign country, far diftant 
from the place of their nativity. 
The only works of the late Colonel 
Frederick known to me, are: 
I. “ Mémoires pour fervir a |’fiftoire 
de Corfe ;’’ dedicated to the Duke of 
Wurtemberg ; in which, in the face of all 
Europe, he proclaims himfelf the fon of 
Theodore, king of Corficas; profeilcs an 
bereditary vegard for his ferene highnefs, 
and challenges his patronage on this very 
account. 1am unacquainted with the 
precife time of the publication, as the Grit 
leaf of my copy is torn out; but I fup- 
pofe it to have been about 1768, or 1770. 
IY. The Defcription of Corfiza, with 
an Account of its Union to the Crown of 
Great Britain, including tae Life of Ge- 
neral Paoli. 
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