Carey, Matthew

an American publisher and voluminous author, B. in Ireland, 1760. He was originally a printer and bookseller, but in 1779 he wrote a pamphlet against the oppre ion of the Irish Catholics, which causing alarm to be felt for his safety, he was secretly sent to Dr. Franklin in Paris, and gained his friendship. In 1783 he started the Freeman's Journal, which pleaded the Irish cause with great warmth. He was prosecuted for a libel on John Foster, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and sentenced to New gate, but he was Fig. 518. released at the instance of the CAREX VULPINOIDEA. Lord Mayor of London, in 1784, and emigrated to Philadelphia, where he published the Pennsylvania Herald , the Columbian Magazine , and the American Museum . He also wrote, in 1814, the Olive Branch, and subsequently Vindiciæ Hibernica, the Philosophy of Common Sense, . D. 1839.