with the information we have in Clarendon's Life. He was a person of a pleasant and facetious wit, and made many poems (especially in the amorous way) which, for the sharpness of the fancy, and the elegance of the language in which that fancy was spread, were at least equal, if not superior to any of that time. But his glory was, that after fifty years of his life spent with less severity or exactness than it ought to have been, he died with great remorse for that licence, and with the greatest manifestation of Christianity that his best friends could desire. It does not appear that any of his poems were published during his life-time, except such as were set to music. The first collection was printed in 1640, 12mo, the second in 1642, the third in 1651, and a fourth in 1670. In 1772 Mr. Thomas Davies published an edition, with notes. Carew's Cœlum Britannicum, at one time erroneously attributed to Davenant, was printed with the first editions of his poems, and afterwards separately in 1651. Oldys, in his MS. notes on Langbaine, informs us, that Carew's sonnets were more in request than any poet's of his time, that is, between 1630 and 1640. They were many of them set to music by the two famous composers, Henry and William Lawes, and other eminent masters, and sung at court in their masques. It is said that Carew was one of the old poets whom Pope studied, and from whom he borrowed. Dr. Percy says of him, that he is an elegant, and almost forgotten writer, whose poems deserve to be revived. Wood says he was famed for the charming sweetness of his lyric odes and sonnets. In the contrivance of his masque, called Cœlum Britannicum, performed at Whitehall, February 18, 1633, he was assisted by Inigo Jones, and all his songs were set to music by Henry Lawes, gentleman of the king's chapel. "In point of versification," says Mr. Hallam, "others of the same age have surpassed Carew, whose lines are often very harmonious, but not so artfully constructed or so uniformly pleasing as those of Waller. He is remarkably unequal; the best of his little poems (none of more than thirty lines are good) excel all of his time; but after a few lines of great beauty, we often come to some ill expressed, or obscure, or weak, or inharmonious passage. Few will hesitate to acknowledge that he has more fancy and more tenderness than Waller, but less choice, less judgment and knowledge where to stop, less of the equability which

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CAREW, (Sir Benjamin Hallowell,) a British admiral, son of Benjamin Haliowell, Esq., the last surviving commissioner of the American Board of Customs, was born in Canada, in 1760. He entered the navy in early life, and served as lieutenant on board the Alcide (74), in the action off the Chesapeak. He shortly afterwards went to the West Indies in the Alfred (74), commanded by captain Bayn, who, after acting a glorious part in the actions of the 9th and 12th of April, 1782, under Rodney, was killed on the latter day. Hallowell himself received a contusion, but did not report it, so that he kept to his duty, and actively assisted in the subsequent pursuit and capture of two sail of the line, a frigate and a corvette. In 1791 he was promoted to the rank of commander, and appointed to the Scorpion, a sloop of war of 16 guns, in which ship he was very serviceable, by his activity and humanity, to the new colonies on the coast of Western Africa. During a great part of the time he remained on that station he was under the orders of captain 1. N. Inglefield, so celebrated by his memorable escape from the wreck of the Centaur; and he afterwards married his commodore's daughter. From the Scorpion he was removed to the Camel, a store-ship of 20 guns, attached to lord Hood's fleet, in which he sailed to the Mediterranean, in 1793, and was soon placed in the Robust, (74,) as her acting captain. Having acted also in this capacity on board the Leviathan and Swiftsure, he was at length promoted to post rank by commission in 1793. He next served as a volunteer under Nelson, at the sieges of Bastia and Calvi, and for his exertions on those occasions was rewarded by the command of the Lowestoffe frigate. From this ship he was re-appointed to the Courageux, and commanded her till December 1796, when she was driven out of Gibraltar Bay, in a furious gale, and dashed to pieces under Ape's Hill, on the opposite coast of Barbary, with the loss of 470 of her crew. He now joined the Victory, Sir J. Jervis's flag-ship, and served as a volunteer in the action off Cape St. Vincent, with such credit, that he was sent home with duplicates of the despatches. This procured him the command of the Lively, a frigate of 32 guns, in which ship he returned to the Mediterranean, where he was afterwards removed into the Swiftsure, of 74 guns, placed under the orders of Nelson, and took a

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distinguished part at the battle of the Nile. Having been ordered to reconnoitre the port of Alexandria, he was not present at the commencement of the engagement, nor until it was quite dark; but, guided only by the fire of the contend ing fleets, he joined the conflict shortly after eight o'clock, taking the place which had been evacuated by the Bellerophon, and immediately commenced a well-directed fire on the quarter of the Franklin and bow of L'Orient, which mainly contributed to the blowing up of the latter majestic ship. After that awful event, the conflict was recommenced by the Franklin, and Carew assisted the Defence and Leander in reducing her to submission. On the 8th of August he took possession of the island of Aboukir; and on the 10th, captured La Fortune corvette of 16 guns. On the same day Nelson, in a letter to earl St. Vincent, remarked, "I should have sunk under the fatigue of refitting the squadron, but for Trowbridge, Ball, Hood, and Hallowell; not but all have done well, but these are my supporters." From a part of the mainmast of L'Orient, which was picked up by the Swiftsure, Hallowell directed his carpenter to make a coffin, which he afterwards sent to his old friend and commander, Nelson, with the following letter:-"Sir, I have taken the liberty of presenting you with a coffin, made from the mainmast of L'Orient, that when you have finished your military career in this world, you may be buried in one of your trophies. But that that period may be far distant is the earnest wish of your sincere friend, BENJAMIN HALLOWELL." This singular present was received in the spirit with which it was sent. Nelson placed it upright against the bulk-head of his cabin, behind the chair he sat in at dinner, where it remained for some time, until his favourite servant prevailed upon him to have it removed; and in this coffin the remains of the hero were finally deposited. Captain Hallowell remained in the Levant till the spring of 1799, when he rejoined Nelson at Palermo, whither the Neapolitan court had fled. From thence he was despatched to the Bay of Naples, and served under Trowbridge in the reduction of the castle of St. Elmo, and the fortress of Capua, for which successful result he was honoured with the cross of the order of St. Ferdinand and Merit. He was directed to join the squadron under Sir J. Duckworth, and cruized for some months off the coasts of Spain and Portugal, and at

last caught part of a convoy bound from Cadiz to Lima. He then carried Sir R. Bickerton to Egypt, and bore his flag for a time. In June 1801, being on his return to Malta, with a convoy, he heard that a strong French squadron, under the well-known Gantheaume, was in the vicinity. After an anxious consideration, he was induced to quit the vessels under his charge, as a secondary object, and endeavoured to hasten on to reinforce rear-admiral Sir J. B. Warren: but he unfortunately fell in with the enemy; and the Swiftsure, being leaky and foul, and nearly 100 men short of complement, was in no condition either for flying or for fighting. Thus circumstanced, he decided on engaging the two leeward ships, as his only chance of escape was the getting off in that direction, if he crippled his antagonists. Escape, however, was out of the question; for besides the fearful odds before him in force, the French commanders were men of remarkable bravery and talent. The Indivisible, of 80 guns, bearing Gantheaume's flag, and the Dix-Août, a heavy 74, commanded by the well-known and active Bergeret, being in close order, opened their fire within half gun-shot of the Swiftsure. She, however, though there was no hope, behaved nobly. A severe action ensued, and continued for upwards of an hour; when, finding every effort to get to leeward baffled, and two other line-of-battle ships fetching into his wake, he was compelled to strike, and with pain, as he expresses himself, "ordered the colours which he could no longer defend to be hauled down." During the peace of Amiens, Carew was stationed as commodore off the coast of Africa, with his broad pendant on board the Argo, a little two-decker of 44 guns. Returning from this station by way of Barbadoes, and learning that hostilities were likely to be renewed with France, he offered his services to Sir Samuel Hood, and shared in the reduction of St. Lucia and Tobago, at which last place, while the Venus frigate attacked the main battery in Great Courland Bay, he superintended the landing of the troops during the fire; and after the final disembarkation, he proceeded, with a brigade of seamen and marines, to cooperate with the army under general Grinfield. These services were gratefully acknowledged by commodore Hood, who entrusted him with the despatches home. The Argo was next ordered to Egypt, with the notorious Elfi Bey on board,

and Carew appears to have been one of the first who detected his true character. in the summer of 1804 he convoyed the Mediterranean trade into the Channel, and on his arrival was appointed to that fine ship the Tigre, of 80 guns, in which he accompanied Nelson to the West Indies, in his fruitless pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain. Captain Hallowell convoyed the second expedition to Egypt, with 5000 troops under major-general Fraser, early in 1807; and he remained on that coast till the evacuation of Alexandria, in September, when he was stationed off Toulon. In July 1810, he was rewarded with a colonelcy of Marines. In the following year he became a rear-admiral; and in January 1812, hoisting his flag in the Malta, of 83 guns, he again proceeded to the Mediterranean, and availed himself of every opportunity for aiding and encouraging the Spanish patriots in Catalonia, Valencia, and other parts of that country. After the fall of Napoleon, Sir Benjamin retired to private life, and on the opening of the order of the Bath, he was created a knight commander. He subsequently commanded on the Irish station for the customary period of three years; and in the summer of 1821 hoisted his flag on board the Prince Regent, of 120 guns, as commander-in-chief in the Medway. This was his last service afloat, but he was decorated with the grand cross of the Bath, and became a full admiral in July 1830. Sir Benjamin succeeded to the estates of the Carews of Beddington, and assumed the name and arms, pursuant to the will of his cousin, Mrs. Anne Paston Gee, who died March 28, 1828. He died on the 2d of September, 1834. CAREW, (Bampfylde Moore,) an eccentric character, born in 1693. He was the son of a clergyman, who resided at Bickley in Devonshire. He was educated at Tiverton grammar school; but he disappointed the expectations of his parents by withdrawing himself from their protection, and associating with gypsies. A wandering life, and the adventures of a mendicant, had greater charms for him than all the refinements and splendour of polished society; and Carew, the friend, companion, and hero of that singular fraternity, was unanimously elected their king-an honour of which, for the rest of his life, he endeavoured to prove himself worthy. It is said that he was twice transported from Exeter to North America for dog-stealing, but by artful expedients he escaped, and

on both occasions returned before the ship which conveyed him from Europe. He prided himself on his skill in soliciting charity under various assumed characters, either as a shattered sailor, a ruined tradesman, a disabled soldier, or a distressed clergyman, and he met with equal success whether in the disguise of a mendicant or a gentleman. He died about 1770.

CAREY, (Henry,) earl of Monmouth, was the eldest son of Robert, the first earl of Monmouth, who died in 1639, and whose Memoirs, written by himself, and containing some curious particulars of secret history of the Elizabethan period, were published from a manuscript in the possession of the earl of Corke and Orrery, in 1759, 8vo. Henry, his son, was born in 1596, admitted a fellow commoner of Exeter college, Oxford, at the age of fifteen, and took the degree of B.A. in 1613, after which he was sent to travel into foreign countries. In 1616 he was made a knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles prince of Wales. In 1625 he was known by the name of lord Lepington, his father's title before he was created earl of Monmouth, and was noted, Wood says, as "a person well skilled in modern languages, and a general scholar." This taste for study was his consolation when the depression of the nobility after the death of Charles I. threw many of them into retirement. He died in 1661. He was a most laborious writer, but chiefly of translations. Of his publications we have, 1. Romulus and Tarquin; or, De Principe et Tyranno, Lond. 1637, 12mo, a translation from Malvezzi, in praise of which Sir John Suckling has some verses in his Fragmenta Aurea, and others were prefixed by Stapylton, Davenant, Carew, &c. 2. Historical Relations of the United Provinces, and of Flar ders, Lond. 1652, fol. translated from Bentivoglio. 3. History of the Wars in Flanders, ib. 1654, fol. from the same author. 4. Advertisement from Parnassus, in two centuries: with the Politic Touchstone, ib. 1656, fol. from Boccalini. 5. Politic Discourses, in six books, ib. 1657, fol. 6. History of Venice, ib. 1658, fol. both from Paul Paruta, a noble Venetian. 7. The Use of Passions, ib. 1649 and 1671, 8vo, from the French of J. F. Senault. 8. Man become guilty; or, the Corruption of his Nature by Sin, ib. from the same author. 9. A translation of Sir Francis Biondi's History of the Civil Wars of England, between the Houses of York and Lancaster. 10. Capriata's History of Italy,

1663, fol. He began also to translate from the Italian Priorato's History of France, but died before he could finish it. It was completed by William Brent, Esq. and printed at Lond. 1677.

CAREY, (Henry,) a musical composer and poet, was an illegitimate son of George Savile, marquis of Halifax, who had the honour of presenting the crown to William III. At what period he was born is not known. His first lessons in music he had from one Lennert, a German; and had some instruction also from Roseingrave and Geminiani, but he never attained much skill in the science. The extent of his abilities seems to have been the composition of a ballad air, or at most a little cantata, to which he was just able to set a bass; yet if mere popularity be the test of genius, Carey was one of the first in his time. His chief employment was teaching at boardingschools, and among people of middling rank in private families. Though Carey had but little skill in music, he had a prolific invention, and very early in life distinguished himself by the composition of songs, which he set to music. One of these, beginning, "Of all the girls that are so smart," and since its late revival, known by the name of "Sally in our alley," he set to an air so very pleasing and original, that it still retains its popularity. Addison praised it for the poetry, Geminiani for the music. In 1715 he produced two farces, one of which, The Contrivances, had considerable success. In 1720 he published a small collection of Poems; and in 1722, a farce called Hanging and Marriage. In 1732 he published six cantatas, written and set to music by himself; and about the same time he composed several songs for the Provoked Husband, and other modern comedies. In 1729 he published, by subscription, his poems much enlarged, with the addition of one entitled Namby Pamby, in ridicule of Ambrose Phillips's lines on the infant daughter of lord Carteret. Carey's talent lay in broad, burlesque humour; and in ridicule of the bombast of modern tragedies, he produced his Chrononhotonthologos, in 1734. He also wrote a farce called the Honest Yorkshireman, which was very successful two interludes, Nancy, and Thomas and Sally, and two serious operas, Amelia, set to music by John Frederic Lampe, and Teraminta, by John Christopher Smith, a pupil of Handel. The year 1737 was rendered memorable at Coventgarden theatre, by the success of the

burlesque opera of the Dragon of Wantley, written by Carey, and admirably set to music by Lampe, after the Italian manner. This excellent piece of humour had run twenty-two nights, when it was stopped, with all other public amusements, by the death of queen Caroline, Nov. 20, but was resumed again on the opening of the theatres in January following. In 1738 Margery, or the Dragoness, a sequel to the Dragon of Wantley, written with equal humour, and as well set by Lampe, came out; but it appeared only for a few nights, and was never revived. Carey published his songs by subscription in 1740, in a collection entitled The Musical Century, and his dramatic works in 1743, in a small 4to volume. But whether from embarrassed circumstances, domestic uneasiness, or, as has been supposed, the malevolence of some of his own profession, he sunk into despondency, and put an end to his life in 1743. Carey's humour, however low, was never offensive to decency, and all his songs have a moral or patriotic tendency. The claim put forward in his name by his son, George Savile Carey, to the authorship of our national air, God Save the King, has long been proved to be utterly groundless.

CAREY, (George Savile,) son of the preceding, inherited a considerable portion of his father's taste and spirit, and much of his misfortunes. He was intended for a printer, but his inclination led him to the theatres, in which he had little success. For forty years he employed himself in composing and singing a number of popular songs, chiefly of the patriotic kind, in which there was not much genuine poetry, or pleasing music. These he performed from town to town, in what he called Lectures. He wrote also, from 1766 to 1792, several farces, by the performance of which he earned temporary supplies. Like his father, he excluded every thing indecent or iminoral from his compositions. Besides these dramatic pieces, he wrote, 1. Analects in prose and verse, 1771, 2 vols. 2. A Lecture on Mimickry, a talent in which he excelled, 1776. 3. A Rural Ramble, 1777; and 4. Balnea, or sketches of the different Watering-places in England, 1799. He died in 1807.

CAREY, (John,) an industrious and useful writer, and classical scholar. He was a native of Ireland, whence, at the age of twelve, he was sent to finish his education in a French university. He does not seem to have appeared as an

author before the publication of his Latin Prosody made easy, in 1800, which was succeeded by the following classical and elementary works:-Skeleton of the Latin Accidence, 1803; Alphabetic Key to Propria quæ Maribus, 1805; Practical English Prosody and Versification, 1809; Clavis Metrico-Virgiliana; The Eton Prosody illustrated; Introduction to English Composition and Elocution, &c. As an editor, Dr. Carey's labours were very extensive. In 1803, and again in 1819, he edited Dryden's Virgil, in two vols, 8vo; he subsequently accomplished the lengthened task of editing more than fifty volumes of the Regent's Classics, as well as two editions in 4to of Ainsworth's Dictionary, five of the Abridgment of the same, the Gradus ad Parnassum in 1824, the Latin Common Prayer in Bagster's Polyglott edition, the Abridgment of Schleusner's Greek Lexicon, Ruperti Commentarius in Livium, &c. &c. He translated the following works:-The Batavians, from the French of Mons. Bitaubé; the Young Emigrants, from Madame de Genlis; Letters on Switzerland, from the German of Lehman; a volume of the Life of Pope Pius VI.; a volume of Universal History; and revised the old translation of Vattel's Law of Nations. He was the editor of the early numbers of the School Magazine, published by Phillips; was a contributor to several other periodicals, and was a frequent correspondent to the Gentleman's Magazine. His communications to that miscellany were generally short, and mostly on classical trifles. The last eight years of his life were embittered by the most distressing and painful bodily complaints; and the disease which terminated his mortal career was of a calculous nature. He died in 1829.

CAREY, (William,) an eminent Oriental scholar, and missionary, of the Baptist persuasion, born at Paulerspury, in Northamptonshire, in 1761. His father kept a small free-school in the village, in which he gave his son an ordinary English education. At the age of four teen, he was apprenticed to a shoemaker in the village of Hackleton, where his correct deportment, and his earnest inquiries on religious subjects, attracted the notice of the Rev. Thomas Scott, of Ravenstone. While resident at Hackleton, and before he had reached his twentieth year, he united himself with a Baptist congregation, and commenced village preaching, and in the year 1783 was publicly baptized at Northampton, by Dr. Ryland. Three years afterwards he

was chosen pastor of the Baptist congregation at Moulton, near Northampton, whence, after struggling under straitened circumstances, he removed to Leicester in 1787, having been invited to take charge of the Baptist congregation in that town. In 1792 an association of ministers assembled at Kettering in Northamptonshire, and formed themselves into a Baptist missionary society, and immediately selected Carey as the most fit agent for the execution of their design of converting the heathen. India was the field which they chose for the commencement of their operations, and Carey, on the 13th of June, 1793, embarked on board a Danish Indiaman, accompanied by his family. Early in 1794 they arrived in Bengal, where they had the misfortune to lose all their money and effects, by the sinking of a boat in the river Hooghly. Thus left in a foreign land, among people of a strange speech, and suddenly deprived of nearly all their means of subsistence, they proceeded about forty miles east of Calcutta, in an open boat, in search of a home, and on the night of the 6th of February, 1794, landed at Dehatta, the residence of Charles Short, Esq., from whom they received the kindest attention and hospitality. While in this neighbourhood, Carey erected a temporary residence, or tent, purposing to support his family by the cultivation of land; but early in the month of March he had an invitation to take charge of an indigo factory near Malda, the property of Mr. Udney, a servant of the East India Company, of high rank. At this period he devoted all his energies, and all his surplus earnings, to the translation and printing of a Bible in the Bengalee language, and in 1795 succeeded in establishing a school in the neighbourhood of his factory, and began to preach there in the language of the country twice a week. In 1797 he made a journey into Bootan, and obtained the consent of the Soubah for an attempt to introduce Christianity into that country, so soon as a fit agent could be provided. In the same, and in the following years, he preached publicly in Dinagepore. Towards the close of the year 1799, he resolved to relinquish his appointment in the neighbourhood of Malda, and to take up his residence in the Danish settlement of Serampore, a place which has since derived its chief importance and celebrity from its being the seat of this mission. A school for children and youth was immediately