CAR 
points were obverted to the eye, than where the Tides were 
To. Boyle. — A quantity fufficient to load a cart. 
CART-ROPE, f. A ftrong cord, ufed to faften the 
load on the carriage; proverbially, any thick cord. 
CART-ROUT, f. [from cart, and route, IT. a.way.] 
The track made by a cart-wheel. 
CART-WATER, a river of Scotland, which runs into 
the Clyde, three miles north ot Paitley. 
CART-WAY, /'. A way through which a carriage may 
conveniently travel.—Where your woods are large, it is 
bell: to have a cart-way along the middle of them. Mortimer. 
CARTA'GO, a city of America, in Mexico, capital of 
the province of Cofta Rica, the (ee of a bifliop and the 
refidence of the governor. It contains three convents, and 
about 400 families, among which are fome rich merchants. 
It is fituated on a river of the fame name. Lat. 10.20. N. 
Ion. 66. 35.W. Ferro. 
CARTA'GO, a river of America, in the province of 
Cofta Rica, which runsinto the Pacific Ocean. Lat.9.40. 
N. Ion.67. 25.W. Ferro. 
CAR'TAL, a town of European Turkey, in Beftara- 
bia, fituated on the Danube: twenty-eight miles weft of 
U'mael. 
CAR'TAMA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Grenada, fituated on an eminence : four leagues north- 
weft of Malaga. 
CAR'TAMA,a town of Spain, in the province of Gre¬ 
nada : fix leagues fouth-weft of Albania. 
CARTE (Thomas), a very learned linglifit hiftorian, 
born at Clifton, in Warwickfhire, where his father, the 
rev. Samuel Carte, relided as vicar ; and he was baptized 
there by iminerfion, April 23, 1686. If this account be 
exacT, his progrefs in grammatical learning rauft have been 
very rapid and extraordinary ; for it appears that he was 
admitted a membef of Univerfity college, in Oxford, and 
matriculated July 4, 1698, having then not long entered 
into the thirteenth year of his age. He took his degree of 
B. A. Jan. 1702 ; after which he was incorporated at Cam¬ 
bridge, where he became M. A. in 1706. Indue time he 
entered into orders, and was.appointed reader of the abbey 
church at Bath; where he preached a fermon on Jan. 30, 
1714, in which he took occalion to vindicate Charles 1 . 
from afperfions with regard to the Irifii rebellion. The 
difpute gave rife to his firft publication, entitled, The 
Irifii Maffacre fet in a clear Light, &c. Upon the acceflion 
of George I. Mr, Carte’s principles not permitting him 
to take t he oaths to the new government, he afiumed a lay 
habit. What particular concern he had in the rebellion 
of 1715 does not appear; but that he had fome degree of 
guilt in this refpedi, or, at lead, that lie was ftrongly fuf- 
pedled of it by adminiftration, is evident, from the king’s 
troops having orders to difeover and apprehend him. He 
had the good fortune to elude their fearch by concealing 
himfelf at Colefhill, Warwickfhire, in the lioufe of a cler¬ 
gyman. Mr. Carte himfelf officiated for a time as curate 
of the fame place ; after which he was fecretary to billiop 
Atterbury. This connexion threw him into frelli difficul¬ 
ties: fodeeply was he thought to be engaged in the con- 
jpiracy aferibed to that eminent prelate, that a charge of 
high treafon was brought againft him; and a proclamation 
was iftued, Aug. 13, 1722, offering a reward of joool. for 
feizing, his perfon. He was again fuccefs.ful in making 
his efcape, and fled into France, where he relided feverul 
years, under the borrowed name of Phillips. At length, 
queen Caroline, wliofe regard to men of letters is well 
known, received fuch favourable inipreflions of Mr. Carte, 
that (he obtained permiflion for his returning to England, 
which he did about the year J730. He had not long been 
reftored to his native country, before he engaged in one of 
the mo ft important of his works, the Hiftory of the Life of 
James duke of Ormond, in three vols. folio. He now be¬ 
gan to colleff materials for his celebrated Hiftory of Eng¬ 
land, and opened a fubfeription for defrayingthe expences. 
Propofals for printing the Hiftory were circulated in 1746, 
and the firft volume was completed in December, 1747 j 
Voin. III. No. 46,5. 
CAR s n 
when the credit of a work, which had been uftiered into 
the world with fo much preparation and expectation, and 
which had been fupported by mod ample fubferiptions, 
was almoft wholly overturned by a remarkable ait of life ■ 
rary indiferetion. Mr. Carte, having occafion to fpeak 
of the unCtion of our kings, and of tlie great eftedfs an¬ 
nexed to it t introduced, in a note, a ftory of one Chrilto 
pher I.ovel, a native of Wells, in Soinerfetftiire, "ho is 
repref’ented as having been healed of the evil, at Avignon, 
in 1716, by application to the pretender. This indifere¬ 
tion was very hurtful to his intcreft. The corporation of 
London unanimoufiy refclved, in April, 1748, to withdraw 
their fubfeription; and tfte Hiftory fell into very general 
negledt. It is to the honour of Mr. Carte’s fortitude, 
that he was not di Icon raged from profecuting his under¬ 
taking ; and perhaps lie might receive private aid and Top- 
port, though public aflillance was withdrawn. Whatever 
may have been the cafe in that ref peel, his fecond volume, 
containing an account of all public tran'.iftions from the 
acceflion of Henry III. to the death of Henry VJL ap¬ 
peared iii 1750. The third volume, which extended <0 
the marriage of the eletlor palatine with the princefs Eli¬ 
zabeth, daughter of Janies I. in 1613, was publiftied in 
1752. The fourth volume, which Mr.Carte did not live to 
complete, appeared in 1755. It was intended to have been 
carried on to the reftoration, but concludes with the year 
1654. It was his defign to have brought the narration 
down to the revolution, for which purpofc he had been at 
uncommon pains to^coileft materials, w herever they could 
be found. Notwithftanding Mr. Carte’s peculiar opini¬ 
ons and prejudices, his general hiftory is undoubtedly a 
work of great merit, in point of information. It is writ¬ 
ten with eminent exablnefs and diligence, and with a per¬ 
fect knowledge of original authors. Mr. Carte died at 
Caldecot-houfe, near Abingdon, Berldhire, April 2, 1754. 
At his deceafe, all his papers came into the hands of his 
widow, who afterwards married Mr. Jernegan, a gentle¬ 
man intended for orders in the church of Rome. Mrs. 
Carte left the papers to her fecond hufband for life, and 
after his deatli to the univerfity of Oxford. They are 
now depolited in the Bodleian library, having been deli¬ 
vered by Mr. Jernegan to the univerfity, in 1778, for a 
valuable confideration. Whilft they were in tins gentle¬ 
man’s poflfelTion, the earl of Hardwicke paid 200I. for the 
perufalof them. For a confideration of 300I. Mr. Mac- 
pheiTon had the ufe of them; who, from thele and other 
materials, compiled his hiftory and ftate papers. Mr.Carte 
was a man of a ftrong conftitution and indefatigable appli¬ 
cation. When the (Indies of the day were over, he would 
eat heartily ; and in converfation was cheerful and enter¬ 
taining. Befides the above-mentioned works, he publiftied 
an edition of Thuanns, in feven vols. folio ; a Collection 
of original Letters and Papers, two vols. 8vo. alfo a great 
number of tradls and controverfial pamphlets. 
C ARTE-BLANCHE, J. a blank paper, figned at the 
bottom with a perfon’s name, and fometimes alfo fealed 
with a feal, giving another perfon power to fuperfcri.be 
what conditions he pleafes. This was a practice much in 
vogue in France, before the decline of the monarchical go¬ 
vernment, by which the king and his minifters put it in 
the power of their favourites and dependents to arreft, 
feize, or plunder, any private individual who had given 
them offence. Of this carte-blanche there was no appeal; 
nor did the power who granted them know how they were 
filled up, or for what purpofe ufed, or againft whom di- 
redded : this was folely in the arbitrary difqretion of thoi'e 
w ho obtained them, 
CARTEL', J. [cartel, Fr, cartella, Irak] A writing 
containing ftipulations between enemies, generally tiled for 
the exchange of prisoners,—As this difeprd among the 
liftei hood is likely to engage them in a long and lingering 
war, it is the more neeeflary that there fliould be a cartel fet¬ 
tled among them. Addifon.— Anciently any public paper 
or challenge r 
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