Mustering at the bridge of Golo for a last effort, they made a rampart of their dead; the wounded had lain down amongst the corpses to give the survivors time to effect their retreat.

The town of Corte, the seat of republican government, capitulated before long.

England had supplied Paoli with munitions and arms; he had hoped more from the promises of the government and the national jealousy against France.

"The ministry is too weak and the nation too wise to make war on account of Corsica," said an illustrious judge, Lord Mansfield.

In vain did Burke exclaim, "Corsica, as a province of France, is for me an object of alarm!" The House of Commons approved of the government's conduct, and England contented herself with offering to the vanquished Paoli a sympathetic hospitality; he left Corsica on an English frigate, accompanied by most of his friends, and it is in Westminster Abbey that he lies, after the numerous vicissitudes of his life, which fluctuated throughout the revolutions of his native land, from England to France and from France to England, to the day when Corsica, proud of having given a master to France and the Revolution, became definitively French with Napoleon.
[Illustration: Defeat of the Corsicans at Golo----256] Corsica was to be the last conquest of the old French monarchy.