The paralytic puling of Carlisle... 
  Lord, rhymester, petit-maitre, pamphleteer. 
  Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809).

CARLOS, elder son of don Antonio, and the favorite of his paternal uncle Lewis.  Carlos is a great bookworm, but when he falls in love with Angelina he throws off his diffidence and becomes bold, resolute, and manly.  His younger brother is Clodio, a mere coxcomb.—­C.  Cibber, Love Makes a Man (1694).

Carlos (under the assumed name of the marquis D’Antas) married Ogarita, but as the marriage was effected under a false name it was not binding, and Ogarita left Carlos to marry Horace de Brienne.  Carlos was a great villain:  he murdered a man to steal from him the plans of some Californian mines.  Then embarking in the Urania, he induced the crew to rebel in order to obtain mastery of the ship.  “Gold was the object of his desire, and gold he obtained.”  Ultimately, his villainies being discovered, he was given up to the hands of justice.—­E.  Stirling, The Orphan of the Frozen Sea (1856).

Carlos (Don), son of Philip II. of Portugal; deformed in person, violent and vindictive in disposition.  Don Carlos was to have married Elizabeth of France, but his father supplanted him.  Subsequently he expected to marry the arch-duchess Anne, daughter of the emperor Maximilian, but her father opposed the match.  In 1564 Philip II. settled the succession on Rodolph and Ernest, his nephews, declaring Carlos incapable.  This drove Carlos into treason, and he joined the Netherlands in a war against his father.  He was apprehended and condemned to death, but was killed in prison.  This has furnished the subject of several tragedies:  i.e., Otway’s Don Carlos (1672), in English; those of J.G. de Campistron (1683) and M.J. de Chenier (1789) in French; J.C.F.  Schiller (1798) in German; Alfieri in Italian, about the same time.

Car’los (Don), the friend of don Alonzo, and the betrothed husband of Leono’ra, whom he resigns to Alonzo out of friendship.  After marriage, Zanga induces Alonzo to believe that Leonora and don Carlos entertain a criminal love for each other, whereupon Alonzo, out of jealousy, has Carlos put to death, and Leonora kills herself.—­Edward Young, The Revenge (1721).

Carlos (Don), husband of donna Victoria.  He gave the deeds of his wife’s estate to donna Laura, a courtesan, and Victoria, in order to recover them, assumed the disguise of a man, took the name of Florio, and made love to her.  Having secured a footing, Florio introduced Gaspar as the wealthy uncle of Victoria, and Gaspar told Laura the deeds in her hand were utterly worthless.  Laura in a fit of temper tore them to atoms, and thus Carlos recovered the estate and was rescued from impending ruin.—­Mrs. Cowley, A Bold Stroke for a Husband (1782).

CARLTON (Admiral George), George IV., author of The Voyage of—­in search of Loyalty, a poetic epistle (1820).