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put a period to a life which had been led without reproach." As a musician, if not brilliant, he was clever in a minor way, and at least he had the gift of melody, and, says Sir John Hawkins, " in all the Songs and Poems written by him on Wine, Love, and such kind of subjects, he seems to have manifested an inviolable regard for de-cency and good manners." As already stated, his son, G. S. Carey, who was born just after his father's death, in Warner Street, always de-clared that his father wrote and composed " God Save the King," as asserted by an old and valued friend of Carey's; and also by Mr. Town-send, who heard Carey sing it in 1740, and who told him he was the author and composer of the anthem. This fact had probably been called in question through the very great prejudice which then existed against all suicides, who were even denied Christian burial. Perhaps this was why the posthumous George Savile Carey, who died in 1807, who was engaged as actor, author, entertainer, and general literary facto-tum at Covent Garden Theatre, when he grew to man's estate and abandoned his trade of printer, and produced several plays, including " Shakespeare's Jubilee," 1769,—perhaps this was why Carey, the son, wrote to Dr. Harington, of Bath, on the subject. Anyhow his letter
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