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JOLLY JONES. 



ciety of antiquaries in 1784. He was created 

 D.C.L., at Oxford, July 4, 1793. At the general 

 election, 1790, he was returned one of the barons in 

 parliament for Seaford ; but by the decision of a 

 committee, which was not given until the second 

 session, he was declared not duly elected on the 

 19th of March, 1792. However, when Mr Sar- 

 jent was made clerk of the ordnance, in Jan. 1794, 

 he was re elected for the same place, but after the 

 dissolution in 1796 he did not again sit in the 

 House. With advancing years, the mind of Mr 

 Jodrell became obscured, and from the year 1822 

 he gradually sunk, until he reached total and ab- 

 solute incapacity. He died on the 26th Jan. 1831, 

 aged eighty-five, and left a family. 



JOLLY, ALEXANDER, D.D., bishop of Moray; 

 died at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, on the 29th 

 June, 1838, in the eighty-third year of his age, and 

 forty-second of his episcopate. The reputation of 

 bishop Jolly for profound and varied learning ex- 

 tended far beyond the limits of the church of which 

 he was a distinguished ornament. He devoted a 

 long life to the studies of his profession ; the whole 

 range of theology was open to him, but the scrip- 

 tures in their original languages, and the writings 

 of the Fathers, were his familiar food ; these he 

 thoroughly digested. The result is partly exhibited 

 in his valuable work on the Eucharist, published in 

 1831. In 1826, he published a " Friendly Address 

 to the Episcopalians of Scotland, on Baptismal 

 Regeneration," briefly tracing the success and uni- 

 formity of the church doctrine on that impor- 

 tant subject. In the department of practical di- 

 vinity, he published, in 1828, " Observations on 

 the several Sunday Services throughout the year." 

 By a late arrangement of the Episcopal college, 

 the See of Moray, founded in the 12th century, 

 exists no longer; the clergy and congregations com- 

 posing it constitute parts of other dioceses. 



JONES, JOHN GALE, a political orator of some 

 notoriety in his day, died in Somers Town, where 

 he had long resided, on the 4th April, 1838, aged 

 sixty-seven. He was by business a surgeon and 

 apothecary, and was bred to that profession by 

 Mr North, of Chelsea. When the breaking out of 

 the French revolution inflamed the conceptions of 

 many politicians in England, he took a lead in 

 the debating societies, where his eloquence and 

 zeal made him a distinguished performer. He was 

 a member of the celebrated " London Correspon- 

 ding Society." He possessed great powers of decla- 

 mation, and took an active part in Westminster 

 politics during the period when Sir Francis Bur- 

 dett rendered himself so conspicuous. His con- 

 nection with the British forum, where questions of 

 the most ticklish nature were openly discussed, 

 brought him into collision with the House of Com- 

 mons; he was committed to Newgate, Feb. 21, 

 1810, for the publication of a scurrilous hand-bill ; 

 and after two unsuccessful motions for his release 

 made by Sir Francis Burdett (amended by Mr 

 Sheridan) and Sir S. Romilly, he was only liberated 

 by the prorogation of parliament on the 2 1st of June, 

 which was the same day that Sir Francis Burdett, 

 by the same circumstance, was released from the 

 tower. In 1810 was published " A Warning to 

 the Frequenters of Debating Societies; being a 

 History of the Rise and Progress of those Socie- 

 ties, with a Report of the Trial and Conviction 

 of John Gale Jones, the Manager of the British 

 Forum." 



The following are the titles of Mr Jones's publi- 



cations: " Sketch of a Speech at the Westmin- 

 ster Forum, 1~94." "A Political Tour through 

 Kent for the purpose of promoting the cause of 

 Parliamentary Reform, 1796." " An Oration on 

 the character of Washington, 1797." " Observa- 

 tions on the Tussis Convulsiva, or Hooping Cough, 

 1798." " Invocation to Edward Quin, Esq. 1804." 

 "Five Letters to the Right Hon. G. Tierney, 

 1806." A satirical poem, with notes, on the mem- 

 bers of the society of the Eccentrics, published 

 about thirty years ago, gave considerable offence at 

 the time to those whom he lampooned. 



His style of speaking was very captivating. His 

 voice was good, and he had words at will ; and if, 

 as Mr Fox said, a good speech ought never to read 

 well, his speeches were super-excellent, for, defy- 

 ing analysis, the reporter could make very little of 

 them. The ear, however, was tickled by a con- 

 catenation of sweet sounds. We believe one of 

 Sir Samuel Romilly 's first efforts was the conduct- 

 ing the defence of Mr Gale Jones, who was tried 

 at the Warwick assizes, about the time Mr Hardy, 

 Mr Home Took, and others, were tried in London. 

 In private life Mr Gale Jones is described as cheer- 

 ful, amiable, and unassuming; instructive in his 

 conversation, a scholar, and a gentleman. 



JONES, CAPTAIN GEORGE MATTHEW, of the 

 royal navy, author of " Travels in Russia and the 

 north-eastern countries of Europe," was brother to 

 col. J. T. Jones, of the royal engineers, the con- 

 structor of the lines of Torres Vedras, and the 

 officer who led the attack upon Bergen-op Zoom. 

 Capt. Jones commenced his naval career under the 

 late Sir J. S. Yorke. He received his first com- 

 mission in 1802; and was junior lieutenant of the 

 Amphion 32, when that frigate conveyed lord Nel- 

 son from off Brest to the Mediterranean, on the 

 renewal of hostilities with France, in 1803. He 

 subsequently assisted at the capture of a Spanish 

 squadron, laden with treasure, from South America 

 bound to Cadiz. On the 8th Nov. 1808, he was 

 severely wounded in a gallant but unsuccessful 

 boat attack on the coast of Istria. On the 27th 

 Aug. 1809, he again highly distinguished himself, 

 at the capture and destruction of six heavy gun 

 vessels, seven trabacolas, and a land battery of four 

 long twenty-four pounders, at the mouth of the 

 Piavie, and in sight of the enemy's squadron at 

 Venice. In Sir William Hoste's official letter on that 

 occasion, "the prompt manner in which lieutenant 

 Jones turned the guns of the battery on the ene- 

 my's vessels " was noticed as highly praiseworthy. 

 He afterwards commanded the Tuscan brig, and 

 was employed in co-operation with the defenders 

 of Cadiz, during the siege of 1'Isla de Leon, in the 

 year 1811. His last appointment was Jan. 23, 

 1817, to the Pandora of eighteen guns, on the 

 Irish station, where he remained for a period of 

 nearly two years. He obtained post rank, Dec. 

 7, 1818. In 1827, Captain Jones published " Tra- 

 vels in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and 

 Turkey ; also on the coast of the sea of Azof and of 

 the Black Sea, &c. &c." in two vols. 8vo. Pre- 

 viously to these travels, which were undertaken 

 by him with a view to the acquisition of profes- 

 sional knowledge, he had already inspected all the 

 naval arsenals and ports of France and Holland ; 

 and in this publication he relates the result of his 

 examination of them, as well as of those of Russia, 

 Sweden and Denmark ; thereby presenting his 

 readers with a great store of accurate information, 

 and much acute remark, on the amount ani con- 



