Carlo Andrea, a celebrated diplomatist, was descended from an illustrious Corsican family, and was born in 1764 at Ajaccio, the town which four years afterwards became the birth-place of Napoleon Bonaparte. His first appearance before the public was in the character of the right-hand man of the great Paoli. That patriotic chief sent him in 1791 to thank the constituent assembly of Paris for having recognised the island to be an integral part of the French dominions. After his return in the following year he employed his aid in the attempt to liberate the country from the jurisdiction of France, and to place it under the protection of Great Britain. When that effort was eventually successful in 1794, he recommended him to the presidency of the newly-instituted council of state under the English viceroy. But it was not until Pozzo had been expelled from Corsica along with the British in 1797, and after being a sojourner in London and Vienna, had entered into the diplomatic service of Russia in 1803, that his real ability began to appear. An inveterate enemy which he was then cherishing against his former friend and fellow-townsmen Napoleon, raised all his faculties into activity. Wherever any plan was in the act of being concerted or executed for the purpose of checking the French potentate, there was he, eloquent in council, far-sighted in policy, and unrestrained in action. The year 1804 saw him in the character of Russian commissioner, with the allied forces in the north of Italy. In 1806 he was ready, as a colonel in the suite of the emperor, to march against the French, when the intelligence of the battle of Jena checked the enterprise. He then repaired to Vienna to try to rekindle the spirit of resistance in Austria. It is true that all these efforts proved unsuccessful; that his master was forced to agree to an armistice with Napoleon in 1807; and that he himself was obliged to be absent for some time from Russia. Yet the spirit of opposition within him did not hate one jot of its intensity. The interval of absence was spent in rearranging his plans, in concerting fresh measures along with the English government, and in mustering all his strength for another onset. Accordingly, no sooner had he been recalled by the Russian emperor in 1812, than he commenced a series of diplomatic strokes which effectively aided in overthrowing the power of Napoleon. It was he who prevailed upon the Swedish crown prince, Bernadotte, to join the confederacy against the French—he who counselled the allies to bring the contest to a crisis by marching upon Paris—he who warned the congress of Vienna of the possibility of Bonaparte returning from Elba. Nor when his diplomacy had done everything that it could, did his master passion become less active. He shed his blood at Waterloo to foil the last struggle of his great countryman; and when he heard that his vanquished adversary had died in St Helena, he exclaimed, with vindictive exultation, "I have not killed Napoleon, but I have thrown the last shovelful of earth upon him." After this great struggle, the remainder of Pozzo's life was chiefly occupied with the duties of Russian ambassador at the French court; and he died at Paris in February 1842. (See Biographie Universelle, and Gregorovius' Wanderings in Corsica, translated into English by Alexander Muir, Edinburgh 1855.)