After the Lisbon Regicide in 1908, when King Carlos and Prince Luís Filipe were killed, and the declaration of a Republic in 1910, Correia de Melo withdrew from public life, returning to his house near Vila Nova de Famalicão. He died there on 21 May 1911. He is remembered by a statue in Guimarães and by a bust in the gardens of the library of Vila Nova de Famalicão.