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CAKTEL. 263 CARTERET. dt-rs a cartel-ship liable to capture and confisca- tion. CARTEL. The. T1u> argument by wbidi the Geniian CoiisiTvativcs. Imperialists, and NatiomU l.iberals united in 1SS7 in support of liismarck and tlie Army I'.ill. .*<ie Politilal 1'aktik.s, der- ma hi/. CARTELLIER, kiir't'-lya', Pierre (1757- Ifi;!!).. A Fri'iiili sculptor, born in Paris. He reciivfd liis lirst e<lucati(m in art at t)ie Free Sehool of Dcsi.i;n. and llien entered the studio of the sculptor iiridan. Compelled to support his family, it was not until 1790 that lie first ex- hibited at the Salon. In 1800 he produced the statue of "War" for the southern fayade of the l.u.xembourg. This was followed by "La pudciir" (1801). In 1810 he executed a large bas-relief for the princiiial door of the Louvre. Among his other works are "Xapulcon legislateur" (1811), a bas-relief on the .rc du Carrousel and one on the facade of the Hotel des Invalidcs, and the mausoleum of .Josephine in the (Rurch of Rueil. In 1810 he was made professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. CAR'TER, ELiz. ETii (1717-lSOG). An Eng- lish poet, translator, and miscellanist, born in Deal, Kent. She became an expert linguist, and rendered into English de Crousaz's Examen de I'essni de ilonsifur Pope sur Vhomme (2 vols., 1730) ; Algarotti's yrirtoiiianisino per le dame; and (17.58) the works of Epietetus. Her poetry lias slight value. She was a friend of many of the leading litti'rateurs of the time, including .Johnson, to whose Rambler she contributed two papers. CARTER, Fraxklix (1837—). An Ameri- can educator, born in Waterbury, Conn. He was educated at Yale, at illiams, and at the L"ni- versity of Berlin, and was professor of Latin and French at Williams from 1865 to 1868, and of Latin alone from 1868 to 1872. He was then pro- fessor of German at Yale from 1872 to 1881, and during this period studied theology and was li- censed to preach. In 1881 he became president of Williams, and administered the affairs of the college with groat ability until 1001. when he re- signed. His publications include an edition of Schiller's Iphigenie aiif Tnuris (1870) ; a Life of Mark Hopkins (1802): and various articles in the Xew Enr/lander and in the Transaetioiis of the American Philological Society and the Mod- ern Languages Association. CARTER, Henrt. See Leslie, Frank. CARTER, .Tames (ooudge (1827-190.5). An Amiriian lawyer, born in Lancaster, ilass. He graduated at Harvard in 1850, and in 1853 was admitted to the bar. He was appointed, in 1875, a member of the commission for devising a form of municipal administration for the cities of New York State, and in 1888 was a mend)er of the constitutional commission. In 1892 he was ap- pointed one of the counsel to present the elaima of the I'nited States before the Bering Sea tri- bunal. His publications include The Codi/ieation of Our Common Law (1883). CARTER, LoflSE Leslie. An American ac- tress who made her debut in 1800 in The Vyly Dueklituj at the Broadway Theatre. New York. She was a pupil of David Bela.seo, the author of the play. After having appeared as the Quakeress in the musical comedy of Miss UcUjelt ( 1891-93) , she retired from the stage for a year and a half more of laborious study at her home in New York. Then, in 1895, as Alaryland Calvert, in The Heart of Murylan'i (produced at W'ashingtori. October 9), she made a sensation. In April, 1898, with the same play in London, she re])cated her American success. In December, 18!)8. she made her appearance in an adaptation of Zaza, «hich began its long run in Xew York at the Gar- rick Theatre, January 9, 1899. In December, 1901, she had another success in Dii fiarri/. Con- sult: Strang, Famous Actresses of the Pay in America (Boston, 1899): Clapp and Edgett, Plui/crs of the Present, Dunlap Society Publica- tions (Xew York, 1899). CARTER, Samiel Powiiat.in (1819-91). An American naval officer and soldier, born in Klizabethtown, Carter County, Tenn, He at- tended Princeton for a time, but did not gradu- ate, and entered the navy in 1840 as a midshij)- num. Subsequently he was assistant instructor of infantry tactics at the Naval Academy ( 1851- 53), and assistant instructor in seanianshi]) there (1857-61), As a naval officer he served in the ilexican War, and at the capture of the Bar- rier forts (q.v. ) near Canton. Cliina, in 1856. In 1861 he was transferred to tlie War Dejiartment, and organized the troops from East Tennessee. In the army he served with distinction throughout the Civil War, being brevetted major-general in 1865. He then returned to the navy, aiul from 1869 to 1872 served as commandant of the Xaval .cademy at Annapolis. He retired from the service in 1881, and received the rank of rear- admiral on the retired list in 1882. CAR'TERET, Sir Georoe ( ?-16S0). An English Royalist, Governor of the Island of ..Ter- sey and one of the original Lord Proprietors of the Province of Xew .Jersey in .mcrica. He early ent to sea and by 1633 had risen to the rank of captain in the English Xavy. In 1639 he became Comptroller of the Xavy. and in 1643, having pre- viously, on the outbreak of the Revolution, es- I)oused the Rovalist side, he succeeded his micle as baililT of the island of .Jersey, and was also appointed Lieutenant-Governor. He soon ex- pelled the Parliamentary forces from the island, and was created a knight and baronet in 1646; but was forced to surrender to the Commonwealth forces in 1651. and for several years thereafter served in the French Xavy under ^'endonle. Re- turning to England at the time of the Restora- tion, he became a member of the Privy Council and Treasurer of the X^avy, which latter position he held from 1661 to 1667, when he became Deputy Treasurer of Ireland. He took an active interest in the colonization of America, and in 16;'>0 was granted "a certain island and ;uliacent islets in America in perpetual inheritance, to be called X'ew Jersey," though no settlenu'nt was made at that time. In 1663 he was one of the original proprietors of Carolina, and in the fol- lowing year the Duke of York granted to him and to .Tohn, Lord Berkeley, the territory now in- cluded in the State of Xcw .Jersey, the name .Vora Cwsiiren. or Xew .Tersey, being given to the i)rov- ince in honor of Carteret's administration of .Ter- sey. The proprietors received full governmental powers and were to pay an annual rental of one jieppcr-corn, if legally demanded, .fter the sur- render of the province by the Dutch in 1()74, a re- grant was made, this time with governmental res- ervations and limitations. On the division of