cal Description and Analytical Reviews of Death upon the Pale Horse,' painted by Benjamin West, 1817, 8vo. An edition was published at Philadelphia in 1836.
- 'A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings by British Artists in the possession at Sir John Fleming Leicester,' 1819, 8vo.
- 'Desultory Exposition of an Anti-British System of Incendiary Publication,' &c. 1819, 8vo.
- 'Addenda to H. Reveley's Notices illustrative of the Masters,' 1820.
- 'Memoirs of B. West, R.A.,' in 'Colburn's New Monthly Magazine,' 1820.
- 'Variæ: Historical Observations on Anti-British and Anti-Contemporanian Prejudices,' &c, 1822, 8vo.
- 'Patronage of Irish Genius,' Dublin, 1823, 8vo.
- . 'Critical Catalogue of the Verville Collection,' 1823.
- 'The National Obstacle to the National Public Style considered,' 1825, 8vo.
- 'Some Memoirs of the Patronage and Progress of the Fine Arts in England … with Anecdotes of Lord De Tabley,' 1820. 8vo, pp. 361.
- 'Syllabus of a Course of Six Historical Lectures on the Arts of Design,' Glasgow, 1828.
- 'Appeal to the Directors of the Royal Irish Institution,' Dublin, 1828, 8vo.
- 'Observations on the Primary Object of the British Institution for the Promotion of the Fine Arts,' Newcastle, 1829.
- 'Brief Remarks on the Anti-British Effect of Inconsiderate Criticism on Modern Art and the Exhibitions of the Living British Artists,' London, 1831, 8vo.
- 'Ridolfi's Critical Letters,' Leeds, 1831.
- 'Ridolfi's Critical Letters on the Style of William Etty,' &c., Nottingham, 1838.
- 'Lorenzo's Critical Letters on the First Exhibition of the Worcester Institution,' second series. Worcester, 1834, 4to. A third series was issued in the following year.
- 'Syllabus of various Lectures on the Fine Arts.'
An unfinished work of his was a 'Life of Alderman John Boydell,' which was projected to fill two royal quarto volumes.
One of his daughters, Elizabeth Sheridan Carey, wrote a volume of poems called 'Ivy Leaves,' privately printed in 1837. She joined the Roman catholic church.
[W. Bates in Notes and Queries, 4th ser. v. 481; Gent. Mag. February 1842, p. 139; Webb's Comp. of Irish Biog. (1878). p. 73; Allibone's Dict. of Authors; Holland and Everett's Mem. of James Montgomery, ii. 40, 73. 102. iii. 355; J. Holland's Memorials of Chantrey. p. 192; Universal Catal. of Books on Art, 1870, i. 229, Suppl. p. 125; private information.]
CARGILL, ANN (1748?–1764), actress and vocalist, made as Miss Brown her first appearance in London at Corent Garden in 1770, playing Sally in George Colmon's comedy 'Man and Wife.' During her stay at Covent Garden, which lasted until 1780, she was the original Clara in the 'Duenna' of Sheridan (21 Nov. 1776), and took some primary rôles in comic opera and burletta, and many secondary rôles in comedy. On 2 Sept. 1780 she played at the Haymarket, as Mrs. Cargill, late Miss Brown, the Goddess of Health in the 'Genius of Nonsense' of her manager, George Colman. Conspicuous success attended her performance at the same theatre, 8 Aug. 1781, of Macheath, in a representation of the 'Beggar's Opera,' in which the male characters were sustained by women, and the female characters by men. Mrs. Cargill also performed Patie in Ramsay's 'Gentle Shepherd' (29 Oct. 1781), Marinetta in Tickell's 'Carnival of Venice' (13 Dec. 1781), and Damon in 1783 in the 'Chaplet,' Mrs. Cargill, who was short and thick in figure, acted with singular spirit as Captain Macheath. It is chronicled that her tremors upon hearing the bell sound for execution moved the audience to tears. In 1782 she went to India, where she not only played her favourite operatic characters, but attempted tragedy with some success. A single benefit is said to have brought her the then 'astonishing sum of 12,000 rupees.' On her return home in 1781 the Nancy packet in which she had taken her passage was lost. Her body was found 'on the rocks of Scilly floating in her shift,' with an infant in her arms. Numerous portraits of Mrs. Cargill were painted and engraved. Two engravings were issued in 1776 after a picture by W. Peters. Engraved portraits were afterwards published of her in her chief characters, including Clara (1778), Miranda (1777), and Polly (1777 and 1782).
[Genest's Account of the Engliah Stage; Thespian Dictionary; Doran's Their Majesties' Servants; Oxberry's Dramatic Chronology; Young's Memoirs of Mrs. Crouch; information kindly supplied by Mr. W. Barclay Squire.]
CARGILL, DONALD, or, according to some, Daniel (1619?–1681). covenanting preacher, was born at Rattray in Perthshire about 1619, studied at Aberdeen and St. Andrews, and was ordained in 1655. He became minister of the Barony parish in Glasgow in the same year. From the first he was a man of deep convictions and intense fidelity to them, but he did not become prominent till the time of the king's restoration, when, on 29 May 1660, instead of joining in public thanksgiving for the king's restoration, he pronounced the event a profound calamity, and denounced woe on the
