1807.J °° 
England, which at this period oceupied 
Toulon, aa waged war, with a degree of 
vigour and of bitternels, hitherto unex- 
sampled in the annals of that kingdom. 
He accordingly invited the Brith Ad- 
miral, * who had been recently toiled in 
an expedition againit his native country, 
to imvade it anew, with a fleet, accom- 
panied by a body of troops, to whom he 
was prepared to give every poflible fuc- 
cour, having been once more elected Ge- 
neralifjimd, ina grand council of the na- 
tion, ‘That officer, having firft difpatched 
Colonel, now General Sir: John Moore, 
together with the late Major Kcehier, to 
examine into the proipects and Raines 
of the infurgents, an expedition failed 
trom the bay of Hieres, January 24, 
1795, for the expre{s purpofe of driving 
the French out of the land. A body 
of troops having been landed under 
Lieutenant General Dundas, the tower 
of Mortella was taken with fome difli- 
culty; after which, Fornelli was attacked 
with fuccefs, and St. Fiorenzo having 
been evacuated, Baftia and Calvi, alfo, 
yielded to the victors. 
- Immediately after this, a general Con- 
fulta was allembled at Corte : ; and Pagh 
“having been elected Prefident, the 
prefentatives of the nation unanimoutly r 
voted the union ef Corfica with the Bri- 
tih Crown. This propofition having 
been readily accepted, on the ‘part of Sir 
Gilbert Elliot, (now Lord Minto ,) then his 
Majetty’s commiffioner, he was immedi- 
ately invelted with the dignity of Vice- 
Roy. A new conttitution was foon after 
formed, which, if not exaétly fuitable to 
ihe genius of the nation, mut be allowed 
to have been exceedingly favourable to 
liberty; for thefe fupjects now received 
as a boon, many of thofe very privileges 
which the inhabitants of England had 
long demanded in vainasa richt, parti- 
eularly fhort parliaments, and an equal 
reprefentation of the people. 
It might have been mphpted, that the 
triumph. of Paoli was complete, and his” 
happinefs placed on fuch a permanent 
bafis, as never to be either ruftled or dif- 
turbed during the remainder of his life. 
But the fact, which proved directly the 
reyerfe, tends not a little to demonttrate 
the mutability of bumau happinefs, A 
jealoufy, how juftly founded we are un- 
able to determine, foon after took place 
between the Britith Viceroy, and the 
Corfican Chief, the refult of which was 
undoubtedly connetted with the future 
Loe 
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* Lord Hood. 
Memoirs of the late General Paoli. 
157 
fate of the Ifland. Paoli, however, on 
this occafion, cheerfully yielded to the 
force of circumttances, and was renerous 
enough before his depar ture, to addrefs a 
valediétory letter to his countrymen, in 
which he exhorted thei to cultivate the 
friendihip of the Kuglih, and remain 
firm m their allegiance to his Majeity 
Geore III. 
Thefe loyal effufions, however, during 
his ablence, were Aibended but with little 
eifect; for the nutives, naturally incon- 
ae “eon became difeutted with their 
new ilies aid protec tors, Dazzled alfo 
at the fame time, perhaps, with the {plen- 
dour of the victories of ee countryinan, 
Buonaparte in Italy, and determined, 
above all things, on a re-union wi th 
France; it was at leneth deemed necet- 
fary, on the part of ihe Englith troops, 
to evacuate an Iiland, which has always 
proved deitructive to every nation cons 
nected with it either by firiendilip or by 
enmity. 
Meanwhile a fad reverfe of fortune 
atteuded on Paoli; for, by the failure ofa 
commercial hou. at Leghorn, he loft the 
fm of tive thoufand pounds, which was 
all that he poffeffed in the world. In ad- 
dition tathis, the payments of his pen- 
fion had been fufpended ; and on his ar- 
rival in 5 ngland, he was not received at 
Court with fo much attention, as here~ 
tofore. 
About this period, he was vifited b 
the author of this ar aoe who found. him 
in an obfcure lodging, above a fhop In 
Oxford-road, whence he at lencth. re- 
moved mto a fmall houfe in Edgew are- 
road, on the right hand fide, a little be- 
yond the turnpike. The remainder of 
his life is one entire blauk, totally devoid 
of incidents, until death, which had beer 
preceded by a lingering ‘llnefs, on Vhurf- 
day, February 5, 1807, in the Silt year 
of his age. 
Few foreigners, however diftinguithed, 
have been fo ach careffed yn Enel: and, 
as the late General Patcal Paoli. By 
living in habits of familiarity with men 
of letters, his name and exploits acquired 
frefh_ celebrity; and Bofwell, Gold- 
fmith, Johnfon, Macaulay, Barbauld, 
and Lord Littelton, although differ 
ing im almott every thing elle, molt 
cordially united in his praile. Abroad 
too, his reputation was creatly re{pected ; 
nah the eulogiums of fuch a man “is 
Rouffeau, then in the zenith of his repu- 
tation, was alone fulicient to enfure re- 
rasan throughout the reft of Europe. 
Wlule his laurels were till green, it 
was 
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