GEORGE, was the brother of the author of the Survey of Cornwall, and like him passed his early life in studying at Oxford, at the Inns of Court, and in continen- tal travel. At the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth, who conferred on him the honour of knighthood, he was appointed secretary to Sir Christopher Hatton, and after- wards, having been promoted to a mastership in chancery, was sent as ambassador to the king of Poland. In the reign of James he was employed in negotiating the treaty of union with Scotland, and for several years held the office of ambassador to the Court of France. On his return he wrote a Relation of the State of France, with sketches of the lead- ing persons at the Court of Henry IV. It is written in the classical style of the Elizabethan age, and has been append- ed by Dr Birch to his Historical View of the Negotiations between the Courts of England, France, and Brussels, from 1592 to 1617. During his residence in France, he com- municated much important information to the historian De Thou in regard to the affairs of Poland, which has been incorporated into that author's History of His Own Times. He died about the year 1613.

GEORGE, Earl of Totness, and Baron Carew of Clopton, Warwickshire, was born in 1557. After com- pleting his studies at Oxford, he joined the army, and held an important command in the Irish wars against the Earl of Desmond and the rebels. He was successively appointed governor of Askerton castle, lieutenant-general of artillery, and after a successful expedition to Cadiz (1596) lord-presi- dent of Munster, treasurer to the army, and ultimately one of the lords judges of Ireland. When he entered on his duties, the whole country was in open rebellion; but by prudent and vigorous policy, backed by his own intrepidity in the field, he soon reduced the rebels to submission. His greatest exploit was the capture of Dunboy castle, an event which disappointed the Spanish allies, and in reality put an end to the war. For his services in Ireland he was made governor of Guernsey, and raised to the peerage. He was afterwards made privy-councillor to James VI., and died at London in 1629. Carew wrote an account of the wars in Ireland in a book called Hibernia pacata, published after his death; and made several collections for the history of Henry V., which were afterwards digested into Speed's History of Great Britain.

CAIRW, RICHARD, author of the Survey of Cornwall, was born in 1555. At an early age he became a distinguished student of Christ Church, Oxford, and when only fourteen was chosen to dispute extemporaneously with Sir Philip Sydney, in presence of the Earls of Leicester, Warwick, and other noblemen. From Oxford he removed to the Middle Temple, where he spent three years, and then went abroad. On his return he was appointed sheriff of Corn- wall, and published his Survey of the county, a work which enjoyed a high reputation, and has been several times re- printed. His other works are entitled, The Examination of Men's Wits, a translation from the Italian, part of which is said to have been executed by his father; The True and Ready Way to learn the Latin Tongue, a tract included in Hardlib's book on the same subject; and A Translation of the first Five Cantos of Tasso's Gierusalemme. He died in 1620.

Carew, Thomas, an English poet, was born about the year 1589. He studied at Oxford, and on the completion of his course was made gentleman of the privy chamber to Charles I. At court he was highly esteemed for the vivacity of his wit and the elegance of his manners; and his poetical tastes gained him the friendship of Ben Johnson, Sir William Davenant, and other celebrated literary men. He wrote several sonnets, amorous pieces, and masques, which were set to music by Henry Lawes and other eminent masters. His best known work is a masque called Cædum Britannicum, performed by the king and several of the nobles at Whitehall on Shrove Tuesday 1633. He died in the prime of life about the year 1639.

Carey, Henry, a humorous poet and musical composer, was an illegitimate son of George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, and was born about the end of the seventeenth century. He studied music under Lennert, Rosegrave, and Geminiani, but never attained to excellence in the higher departments of composition. His ballads and songs, however, were exceedingly popular at the time. He wrote several dramatic pieces for Covent Garden theatre, among which may be mentioned a burlesque tragedy called Chrononotho-tanthologos; a farce called the Honest Yorkshireman; two interludes, called Nancy and Thomas and Sally; and two burlesque operas, called The Dragon and Margery, or the Dragoness. His songs were collected and published by himself in a work called The Musical Century; and the tune of one of them, beginning "Of all the girls that are so smart," still survives in the popular air of Sally in our Alley. Carey, who seems to have been of an amiable but exceedingly irritable disposition, put an end to his life in 1744, probably in a fit of despondency caused by the malicious attacks of rival composers.

Carey, William, a celebrated Baptist missionary and oriental scholar, was born at Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, in 1761. When a youth he wrought with his father, who was a shoemaker, and before he was twenty years of age he joined the Baptists, and devoted a large portion of his time to village preaching. In 1787 he became pastor of a Baptist congregation in Leicester, and five years after was chosen by a Baptist missionary association to proceed to India as their missionary. On reaching Bengal, Carey and his companions lost all their property in the Hooghly; but having received the charge of an indigo factory at Malda, he was soon placed in a favourable position for prosecuting the work of translating the Bible into Bengalee. In 1799 he quitted Malda for Serampore, where he established a church, a school, and a printing press for the publication of the Scriptures and philological works. In 1801 Carey was appointed professor of oriental languages in a college founded at Fort-William by the Marquis of Wellesley, and soon after received a doctor's degree from his native country. From this time till his death he devoted himself to the preparation of numerous philological works, consisting of grammars and dictionaries in the Mahratta, Sanscrit, Punjabe, Selinga, Bengalee, and Bhotanta dialects. The Sanscrit dictionary was unfortunately destroyed by a fire which broke out in the printing establishment. From the Serampore press there were issued no fewer than 24 different translations of the Scripture, which were all edited by Dr Carey. He died in 1834.