who, after experiencing the most extraordinary vicissitudes of fortune, chose to end his days in our island of liberty; but was reduced to the wretched state of a prisoner, for debt.
Mr. Horace Walpole generously exerted himself for Theodore. He wrote a paper in the World, with great elegance and humour, soliciting a contribution for the monarch in distress, to be paid to Mr. Robert Dodsley, bookseller, as lord high treasurer. This brought him a very handsome sum. He was allowed to get out of prison. Mr. Walpole has the original deed, by which Theodore made over the kingdom of Corsica, in security to his creditors. He has also the great seal of the kingdom.
Mr. Walpole has told me, that he had the curiosity to see king Theodore, and was accordingly in company with him, at a lady's of his acquaintance. But whether from dulness, or from pride, he did not open his mouth.
I suppose he has been so much dejected, and so much hurt by his misfortunes, that he was become sullen and indifferent. He died very soon after he got out of prison, and was buried in St. Anne's church-yard, Westminster; where a simple, unadorned monument is erected to him, with the following inscription:
