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I Roo, put an end to his life in the feventy-fourth year of Lis 

 age. Mr. Jones's learning was very rerpe<£lable, his attacl\- 

 nieiit to truth was zealous and ardent, and his moral conduft 

 highly exemplary. He delighted in doing good, and was a 

 vigilant and afFedtionate paftor. He was. in addition to his 

 other learning, a proficient in muiic, and compofed ten 

 church-pieces for the organ, and four anlliems, wliicli have 

 been much admired. His works have been piiblifhed in 

 12 vols. 8vo. See Gentleman's Magazine for iSoo. 



Jones, Paul, a naval adventurer, was a native of Selkirk, 

 in Scotland, but fettling in America, he obtained, in 1775, 

 the command of a fliip under commodore Hopkins, and dif- 

 tinguiflied himfelf in feveral engagements, on which account 

 he received a captain's commifiion. He then failed to 

 France, and being well acquainted with the coaft of Ireland, 

 and the northern part of England, lie conceived the defign of 

 eSeding a defcenC. He accordingly landed at Whitehaven, 

 and did confiderable mifchief tliere. He afterwards failed 

 for Scotland, where he landed on the ellate of tlie earl of Sel- 

 kirk, and plundered his lord(hip"s houfe of all the plate : he 

 next took the Drake floop of war, with which he \\ent to 

 Brell After this he failed round Ireland to the North fea, 

 with three fliips, t;s. the Richard, Pallas, and Vengeance. 

 Having committed great miichief on that coaft, he fell in with 

 the Baltic fleet, convoyed by the Serapis frigate, and an- 

 other armed veffel, both of which he captured off Flam- 

 borough-head. For thefe fervices the king of France con- 

 ferred on him the order of merit, and gave him a gold-hiked 

 f«ord. We hear no more of his exploits after the conclu- 

 fion of the American war. He died at Paris in 1792. 

 Mjnthly Mag. 



Jones, in Geography, a county of North Carolina, in 

 Newbern diftritt, bounded N. by Craven, and well watered 

 by the river Trent and its tributary llreams. It contains 4241 

 free inhabitants, and 1899 flaves. Its chief town is Tren- 

 ton. 



Jones, St., a town of America, in Kent county, Dela- 

 ware, contaming ijS6 inhabitnnts. 



Jones's Creek, a river of Pennfylvania, which runs into 

 the Delaware. N. lat. 40 j8'. W. long. 7,' i j'. 



JosEs'a I/liinef, an iiland m Hudfon's bay. N. lat. 61'' 

 52'. W. long. 63 \ 



JoNE.s"s Key, a Imall ifland in the Spanilh Main, near the 

 Mofquito (hore, furrounded with rocks. N. lat. 15' 35'. 

 W. long. 82" 27'. 



Jones's Town, in Pennfylvania. See WlLLr,\MSBURr.. 



JONESBOROUGH, a polt-town of America, and 

 chief town of Walhington diilritt, in Teneflee, and alio the 

 feat of the diltrid and county courts, 26 mile? from Greenville 

 and 40 from Abingdon, in Virginia. — Alfo, the chief and 

 poft-town of Camden county, Edenton dillrict. North Ca- 

 rolina ; containing a court -lioufe and a few dwelling honles. 



JONESIA, in Botany, is a genus dedicated by Dr. 

 Roxburgh to the memory of the celebi-nted fir William Jones, 

 who, amongll the varied and imrivalled accomplifliments 

 he attained in almoft ever)' department of fcience, was by 

 ro means unllcilled in botanical refearches. Roxb. A fiat. 

 Refearches, v. 4. .35J. Wiild. Sp. PI. v. 2. 287. (Asjogam ; 

 Hort. Malabar, v. 5. 117. t. 59.) Clafs and order. Hep- 

 tanilria Mono^ynia. Nat. Ord ? 



Elf. Ch. Calyx of two leaves. Corolla funncl-lhaped, 

 with a clofed, fleihy tube ; limb four-c'eft. Neftary a little 

 ring bearing the ftamens, infertcd into the throat of the tube 

 of the corolla. Germen pedicellated. Pod-fhaped like a 

 cymitar, turgid, containing from four to eight feeds. 



I. i.pmnala. Willd. (J. Aloca ; Roxb. Afiat. Re- 

 fearches, V. 4. 3JJ.) A native of the Eail Indies. — This 



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tree rifes to the height of about i j feet. Root whitilh, civ 

 vered with a blackifli bark, inodorou.-s, fumly fixed in the 

 ground and fpreading by means of numerous fibres. Lcai'cs 

 alternate, unequally pinnate, confilUng of from four to iiic 

 pair of oblong-lanceoiato, imooth, Ihining, (Irong leaflets. 

 Floivers making a denfe cyme, odorous, of a fine yellowr 

 colour. Stamens long and flender, of a be.uiliful lliining 

 red, with dark purple tops. Style grcenifli-white, v.-itli a 

 round tip. 



We have feen a beautiful fpccimen of this plant which was 

 gathered and preferved by lord Valentia in his Travcli 

 through India; and this authorizes us to fay that the yljo^am 

 of the Horttis Miilabar'tctis is a molt corretl delineation of 

 our Jonefia. It is found in gardens about Calcutta, wl:erc 

 it grows to be a very handfome tree. The plants and feeds 

 were originally brought from the interior of the country, 

 where it is indigenous. 



JONGLEURS, mnficians, players on inllniments, in 

 the infancy of French poetry, who attached thcnifelves to 

 the troubadours or provincial poets. 



The hiilory of the French theatre informs us tha' a kind 

 of merry-andrews were thus called that accompanied the 

 troubadours, who began to flourilli about the beginning of 

 the eleventh century. The term jongleur feems to be a cor- 

 ruption 6f the Latin wovA joculator, in Yvench joueur, and in 

 Englifli player on an inftrumer.t. Mention is made of the 

 jongleurs from the time of the emperor Henry II., who died 

 in 1056. As they played upon different inftruments, thoy 

 affociated with the troubadours and fingers, to execute tiie 

 works of tiie firft, and thus, in their company they gained 

 admiffioii into the palaces of kings and princes, and drew 

 from them magnificent prefcnts. Some time after the death 

 of Joan I. queen of Naples and Sicily, and countefs of 

 Provence, which happened 1382, all thofeof the profefiion 

 of troubadours and jongleurs, feparated into two difierent 

 clalTes of acfors. Some, under the ancient name of trouba- 

 dours, joined finging to inftruments, or the recitation of 

 voices ; others limply took the name of players, or jociilators, 

 as they were named in their certificates. 



About the year 1330, the minflrels of Paris, including 

 the jongleurs, formed thcralelves into a company, and ob- 

 tained a charter. The police frequently icpiefled their li- 

 centioufnefs, and regulated their conduft ; PhiHp Augullus 

 banilhed them the firil year of his reign ; but tliey \vei"e re- 

 called by his fucceflbrs, and united under the general name 

 of mt-nejlraudie, minftrelfy ; having a chief appointed over 

 them, who was called king of the minjlrcls. Lewis IX. ex- 

 empted them from a tariff or toll at the entrance into Paris, 

 on condition that they would fing a fong and make their 

 monkies dance to the tollman, perhaps to prove their title 

 to fuch indulgence : and hence arofe the well-knowp pro- 

 verb : Payer en gambades el en monndie dejinge. \ 



The affociated minftrcls inhabited a particular ftreet, to 

 which they gave the name, which it ftill retains, of St. Julien 

 dts Menejlriers. It was here that the public was provided 

 with njulicians for weddings and parties of pleafure ; but 

 as a greater number of them ufually attended on fuch occa- 

 fions than were ordered, and all ex[)cScd to be paid the fame 

 price, William dc Germont, provoil of Paris, in 1331 pro- 

 hibited the jongleurs and jonglerelTes from going to thole who 

 required their performance in greater numbers than had been 

 ftipulated, upon a fevere penalty. In 1395 theirJiberlinifm 

 and immoralities again incurred the cenfure of Government, 

 by which it was ftri ily enjoined that they fhouldnenceforth, 

 neither in public nor private, fpcak, aft, or fing any thing 

 that was indecorous or unfit for modell eyes and ears, upon 

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