r801.] Ad. Carey, Author of God Save the King & Sally in our Alley. 335 
and extenfive benevolence, magnanimity*, 
coolnefs, prudence, induftry, and penetra- 
tion. His benevolence does the higheft 
honour to his feelings as a man, and Is 
well exemplified by his indefatigable ex- 
ertions to provide for and comiort the 
poor {ufferers who had loft the whole of 
their property in the dreadful fire of 1795, 
before alluded to. Indeed the happinefs 
of his people feems to be his aim in all his 
actions ; and to fum up the political cha- 
raéter of the Crown-Prince of) Denmark 
—he is every thing that can be *xpected 
from the pupil of Bernftorif { :—and 
when we have faid this, what can we fay 
more ? 
Hackney, ROBERT STEVENS. 
May 9; 1801. * 
/ EE ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
On the orn1GiN of the celebrated BALLAD 
of *° SALLY 7 our ALLEY 3” and on the 
AUTHOR of ** GoD fave the KING.” 
HERE has. been nothing more com- 
mon, when fpeaking of the eftima- 
tion of any commodity, which you would 
with to leffen in refpeét to its value, than 
faying, “ Ob! you may have it for a 
fong.”’—Many fongs have been of confi 
derable confequence to every body but the 
poet ; the mutic-venders, many of whom 
fcarcely know how to read them, have 
often got hundreds of pounds by a fingle 
fong ; when the poor bard has had no 
other gratification than to have known 
that they have become popular, or has 
been flattered for his ability while he has 
been dining at a great man’s table, where 
they may have been fung. 
* The magnanimity of the Crown-Prince 
may be fhewn by his refufing to join the, 
confederacy againft France, by which con- 
duct he was the means of procuring great ad- 
vantages to his people, particularly the imer- 
cantile part of them. That he pofleffes cou- 
rage, firmnefs of mind, and an undeviating 
reiolution to fulal his political engage- 
ments, though perhaps forced into them, is well 
illuftrated by his very recent conduét when 
the Englith fleet was before Copenhagen. 
+ This illuftrious and accompliihed ftatef- 
man, the great Count de Bernitorff, died at 
Copenhagen the 21ft of June, 1797, univer- 
fally regretted and lamented by a grateful 
people, whofe affeftions he undoubtedly pof- 
{efied; and though the minifter of a delpotic 
monarch, he was yet a true friend to the 
rights and liberties of mankind, : 
We well know that there are fongs 
which have been of the utmoft confequence 
to a whole country, and we need to go’ no ~ 
farther than the ‘** Ca@ira’’ in France, 
and the ** God fave great George our 
King” in England; the latter of Which 
was written by my father, Henry Carey, 
who was alfo the author of the popular 
ballad of §* Sally ia our Aliey,” publifhed 
by fub{cription ina quarto edition* of that 
author, among other fongs and pieces of 
poetry, in the year 1729. 
My father, im this work, apologifes for 
his deicending to fo humble a theme as 
Saily in our Alley, in the following 
words :—‘* A vulgar error having long 
prevailed among many perfons, who ima- 
gine Sally Salifoury the fubject of this bal- 
lad 3 the author begs leave to undeceive and 
affure them, it has not the lea(t allufion to 
her ;:he being a ftranger to her very name 
at the time this tong was written and 
compofed. For as innocence and virtue 
were ever the boundaries of his Mule, fo | 
in this httle poem he hed no other view 
thau to fet forth the beauty of a chatte and 
dilintcreited paiiion, even in the lowett 
cialis of human life. Uhe real occafion 
was this:—A fhoemaker’s apprentices 
making holiday with his fweet-heart, 
treated her with a fight ot Bethiem, the 
puppet-fhews, the ilying chairs, and all 
the elegances of Moorfields: from thence, 
he proceeded to the Parthing-Pye-houfe, 
gave iter a collation of buns, cheefe- 
cakes, cammon of bacon, ftuffed-beef, and 
bottied- ale; through ali which fcenes the: 
author dogged them (charmed, with the 
fimpucity of their courtlhip), trom whence 
he drew this little tketch of nature; but 
being then young aud obicure, he was 
very much ridiculed by fome of his ac- 
quaintance ior this performance, whichy 
nevertheleis, made its way into the polite 
world, and amply recompenced him by the 
applaufe of the divine Addilon, who was 
picaied (mors than once) to mention it 
with approbation. 
GEORGE SavILLE CAREY. 
Cambridze—May 5, 1803. 
P. S. Kefpeéting the pretenfions of my fa~ 
ther to the national ballad of God fave the 
King, 1 fhall fubjoin, for the information of 
your readers, a letter which I received a 
few years fince from Dr, Harrington, of 
Bath, an authority in the mufical world, 
which few perfons will be hardy enough to 
call in queftion. Sir— 
* Printed in London by E. Say, Ave-- 
Maria-lane. : 
