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ene day ordered to bid the chaplain, Dr. Madox, after¬ 
wards bifhop ofWorcefter, begin the fervice. He faid 
archly, “ And a very proper altar-piece is here, madam!” 
Queen Anne had the fame cuftom ; and once ordering the 
door to be flint while the fhifted, the chaplain (lopped. 
The queen fent to a(k why he did not proceed ? He repli¬ 
ed, “ He would not whiftle the word of God through the 
key-hole.” Queen Caroline, though labouring with fo 
dangerous a complaint, made it fo invariable a rule never 
to refufe a delire of the king, that every morning at Rich¬ 
mond fhe walked feveral miles with him ; and more than 
once, when (lie had the gout in her foot, (he dipped her 
whole leg in cold water to be ready to attend him. The 
pain, her bulk, and the exercife, threw her into fuch fils 
of perfpiration as vented the gout ; but thofe exertions 
haftened the crilis of her diftemper. It was great (lirewd- 
nefs in Sir Robert Walpole, who, before her diftemper 
brokeout, difcovered her fecret. On my mother’s death, 
who was of the queen’s age, her majefty a(ked Sir Robert 
many phylical queftions ; but he remarked, that (lie of- 
tenell reverted to a rupture, which had not been the ill- 
nefsof his wife. When he came home, he faid to me, 
“ Now, Horace, I know by pofleflion of what fecret lady 
Sundon has preferved fuch an afcendant over the queen.” 
He was in the right. How lady Sundon had wormed her- 
f’elf into that myftery was never known. As Sir Robert 
maintained his influence over the clergy, by Gibfon bifhop 
of London, he often met with tronblefome obftruftions 
from lady Sundon, who efpoufed, as 1 have faid, the he¬ 
terodox clergy ; and Sir Robert could never (hake her cre¬ 
dit. Yet the queen was conftant in her protection of Sir 
Robert, and the day before (lie died gave a ftrong mark 
of her conviction that he was the firmed fupport the-king 
had. As they two alone were handing by the queen’s bed, 
(lie pathetically recommended, not the mini iter to the fo- 
vereign, but the matter to the fervant. Sir Robert w as 
alarmed, and feared the recommendation would leave a 
fatal imprelfion ; but a'fhort time after, the king reading 
with Sir Robert Come intercepted letters front Germany, 
which faid, that now the queen was gone Sir Robert w ould 
have no protection: “On the contrary,” faid the king, 
“ von know (he recommended me to you.” This marked 
the notice he had taken of the expreffion ; and it was the 
only notice lie ever look of it : nay, his majefty’s grief 
was fo excefiive and fo fincere, that his kindnefs to his 
minifter feemed to increafe for the queen’s fake.” 
CAROLI'NA (La), a town of Spain, and chief of a 
new fettlement in the Morena mountains: twenty miles 
novtli-eaft of Anduiar. 
CA'ROLINE CQUNTY, in Virginia, in the United 
States of America, on the fouth fide of Rappahannock ri¬ 
ver, which feparates it from King George’s county. It is 
about 40 fquare miles-, and contains 17,489 inhabitants. 
CA'ROLINE COUNTY, on the eaftern (Iiore of Ma¬ 
ryland, in the United States, borders on Delaware'(late to 
the eall, and contains 9506 inhabitants. Danton is its 
chief town. 
CA'ROLINE, or New Philippine Islands, a chain 
of iflands in the Pacific Ocean, lying between 6. and 10. 
of north latitude, and 136. to 1.56. weft longitude. They 
are fnppofed to be thirty in r nber ; but are little known 
to European navigators. 
CA'ROLINE, f. A (liver coin of Sweden, with the le¬ 
gend, Si Devs pro nobis, quis contra. 
CA'ROLINE-BOOKS, f. A name given to the four 
books compofed by order of Charlemagne, to refute the fe- 
cond council of Nice, with regard to the worfhip of images. 
They contain one hundred and twenty heads o( accufation 
againfl: that council, drawn up by the bifliops of France, 
and firfl publiflied in 1549, by M. du Tiller, bidiop of 
Meaux, under the title of Elia Phylira. 
CAROLI'NEA, f. [fo named in memory of Sophia Ca¬ 
rolina l.ouija, marchionefs of Baden.] In botany, a genus 
of the clafs monadelphia, order polyandria, natural urder 
columnifene. The generic charailers are—Calyx ; peri- 
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anthium one-Ie.ifed, bell-form, truncate, quite entire, ve¬ 
ry fliort, deciduous. Corolla : petals five, enfiform, very 
long, fomewhat ereiSl. Stamina: monadelphous; fila¬ 
ments very numerous, connate at the bafe, filiform, very 
long ;• anthers: oblongifti, eredt. Piftillurn : germ infe¬ 
rior, oblong, cylindric; flyle filiform, the length of the 
(tautens; ftigma limple. Pericarpi’um : pome ovate, five- 
grooved, two-celled. Seeds twin, one above the other, 
ovate, gibbous, fiattifli within .—EJfential CharaElcr. Mo- 
nogynotis. Calyx lintple, tubular, truncate. Petals enli- 
forin. Pome five-grooved, two-celled. 
Species. 1. Carolinea princeps : leaflets about five, o- 
vate-lanceolate. It is a large thornlefs tree ; flowers foli- 
tary, axillary, (eflile, very large and beautiful ; petals 
yellow, filaments red, anthers purple. The fruit has the 
appearance of that of the chocolate, or of cucumber; With 
feeds like almonds, the cotyledons plaited. Thefe are 
eatable, but very flatulent when taken raw in any quan¬ 
tity. Native of Guiana, in falts by the banks of rivers. 
Introduced in 1787, by Mr. Alexander Andsrfon. 
2. Carolinea infignis : leaflets about feven, ovate-ob¬ 
long - . Native of Tobago and Vera Cruz. 
Propagation and Culture. They may be propagated by 
feeds, or by cuttings, in a light loamy foil, plunged in 
the bark-ftove, and watered moderately in fummer, but 
fparingly in winter. 
CAROI.OSTA'DIANS, or Carlostadians, an an¬ 
cient left of Lutherans, who denied the real prefence in 
the eucharift. They were thus denominated from their 
leader Andrew Carolofladius, who, having been archdea¬ 
con of Wittemberg, was converted by Luther, and was 
the firft of all the reformed clergy who took a wife ; but, 
disagreeing afterwards with Luther, he founded a feCt 
apart. The Caroloftadians are the fame with thofe who are 
denominated Sacramentarians, and agree in mod things 
with the Zuinglians. 
CA'ROLSTADT. See Carlstadt. 
CA'ROLUS,y. An ancient Engliflt piece of gold, ftruck 
under Charles I. whofe image and name it bears. Its va¬ 
lue has been eftimated at twenty-three (hillings fterling; 
though, at the time when it was coined, it is (aid to have 
been only rated at twenty (hillings. 
CA'ROLUS,_/i A (mail copper French coin, mixt with 
a little proportion of filver, firft ftruck by Charles VIII. 
of France, whence it took its name ; being, at the time 
when it ceafed to be current, valued at fix rieniers. 
CARO'LY, or Curute, one of the Laccadive Iflands, 
in the Indian Sea. Lat. to. 32. N. Ion. 72. 35. E. Gr. 
CARO'JVIB, a tow n of France, in the county of Venaif- 
fin : five miles from Carpentras. 
C AROMOEL'LI, f. in botany. See Siderox y lok. 
CA'RO-N, a town of Perfia, in the province of Farfif- 
tan : (eventy-five miles fouth of Sit fa. 
CARO'NI A, a town of Sicily, near the north coaft, in 
the valley of Demona, on the river of the fame name : five 
miles north-eaft of Miftretta. 
CAROPEL'LA, a river of Italy, which runs into the 
Gulf of Manfredonia, near Rioli. 
CARO'RA, a town of Terra Firma, in North Ameri¬ 
ca, about 1 jo. miles north-eaft from Gibraltar, on Mara- 
caybo lake. 
C A'ROS,_/i [from v.a^ce, Gr. the head, which is chiefly 
affedled.] A (light degree of apoplexy ; a lethargy. See 
Medicine. 
CARO'TA,/. in botany. See Daucus.' 
CAROTEEL', f. in commerce, a certain weight or 
quantity of divers kinds of goods, ex. gr. of cloves, from 
four to five hundred weight ; of currants, from five tq 
nine hundred weight; ot mace, about three hundred 
weight ; and of nutmegs, from fix to feven and a half 
hundred weight. 
C A'ROTID, adj. \_carotidcs, Lat. two arteries which 
avife out of the afeending trunk of the aorta, near where 
the fubclavian arteriesarife. See Anatomy.] —Thecarc- 
tid, vertebral, andYplenic, arteries, are not only varioufly 
con- 
