 Son of Antoni Zabiełło and Zofia Niemirowicz-Szczytt h. Jastrzębiec.Opponent of the Constitution of May 3 and deputy marshal of the Targowica Confederation.after the Polish–Russian War of 1792 for his support of the Russian cause he was selected by Russians to be a Field Hetman of Lithuania and deputy to the Grodno Sejm, the last Sejm of the Commonwealth, infamous for being forced by Russians to sign the act of the second partition.