O'Connell lived in tranquillity and honour, a remnant of other days and of old romantic sympathies, until 1830, when he was again deprived of his French emoluments for his unwavering fidelity to Charles X. and the elder branch of the Bourbons. After this he retired to his château at Meudon, near Blois, where he died, on the 9th of July, 1833, in the ninety-first year of his age, the oldest Colonel of the British army, and the senior general of the French.
Such was the chequered career of one of the last of the brave old Irish Brigade.
FOOTNOTES:
[20] Biographie Universelle.
[21] Scots' Magazine, 1791.
[22] War-Office Records—communicated.
[23] War-Office Record.
[24] Ibid.