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MEMOIR

OF

THE REV. H. F. CARY.

CHAPTER I.

1772-1790.

Mr. Cary's Birth and Parentage.-Disposition in Childhood.—Loss of his Mother.-His Education.-Publication of Ode to General Elliott.-Acquaintance with and Letters to Miss Seward.-Contributions to the "Gentleman's Magazine."-Ode.-Sonnets. — Letters to Miss Seward.

HENRY FRANCIS CARY, the subject of this Memoir, was born at Gibraltar, on the sixth of December, 1772. He was the eldest son of William Cary, at that time a Captain in the First Regiment of Foot, by Henrietta, daughter of Theophilus Brocas, Dean of Killala. His grandfather, Henry Cary, was archdeacon, and his great-grandfather, Mordecai Cary, bishop of that diocese.

Within a few months after the birth of his eldest son, Captain Cary returned with his regiment to England, and in a few years taking umbrage at a junior captain, through the influence of the colonel,

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