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Rh tion. The result of these meetings was his election as a delegate to the assembly in 1789. In Paris he founded the Society of the friends of the blacks, and spoke several times at the bar of the assembly in behalf of the colored population of the colonies ; but his exertions were in the end of no avail, al- though he had interested the orator Barnave in his cause. He then resolved to conquer by force what he could not do by persuasion, and, sailing for the United States, he bought in that country a full cargo of arms and ammunition, and landed with his colleague, Vincent Oge (q. v.), in October, 1790. They at once issued proclamations, calling the ne- groes to arms, and in a few days found themselves at the head of 700 men. M. de Vincent, governor of the cape, sent a body of regulars to crush the rebellion ; but they were defeated at the battle of Dondan, after which Jarric increased his forces to the number of over 2,500 men. De Vincent now marched in person with all his forces against Jarric. A great battle was fought near the river Saint Vin- cent, and the rebels suffered such a defeat that Oge and Jarric were compelled to fly to the Spanish possessions. They were surrendered by the au- thorities, and Jarric was broken on the wheel.

JARVES, James Jackson, author, b. in Boston, Mass., 20 Aug., 1820 ; d. in Terasp, Switzerland, 28 June, 1888. He was educated in Boston, and was prepared to enter Harvard in 1833, when failing health and impaired eyesight compelled him to give up study. Subsequently he travelled extensively through South America and the islands of the Pacific, settling in 1838 on the Hawaiian islands. In 1840 he established " The Polynesian," the first newspaper published in Honolulu, and in 1844 he received the title of director of the gov- ernment press, his journal becoming the official or- gan of the Hawaiian islands. He returned to the United States in 1849, and soon afterward received from the Hawaiian government the appointment of special commissioner to negotiate treaties with the United States, France, and Great Britain. In 1851 he visited Europe, and subsequently resided in Florence, where he was engaged in making art collections. Of these his art gallery of old Italian masters now forms part of the collection of the Yale school of the fine arts, while a second collec- tion of old masters and antique sculpture belongs to the Holenden gallery in Cleveland, and his specimens of antique and modern Venetian glass were presented by him to the Metropolitan museum of art in New York. His work gained for him an election to honorary membership in the Academia delle belle arti in Florence. From 1879 till 1882 he was U. S. vice-consul and acting consul in Florence, and later became the commissioner of Italy at the Boston foreign exhibition of 1882-'3, for which in 1887 he was made a knight of the order of the crown of Italy. In 1886 his collec- tion of laces, stuffs, embroideries, costumes, and other textile fabrics, embracing specimens made in the 12th century and till the present time, were sold in New York. Mr. Jarves contributed to periodical literature, and published " History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands" (Boston and London, 1843) ; " Scenes and Scenery in the Sandwich Islands " (1844) ; " Parisian Sights and French Principles seen through American Spec- tacles" (2 vols., New York, 1853); "Art Hints, Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting " (1855) ; " Kiana, a Tradition of Hawaii " (Boston, 1855) ; " Italian Sights and Papal Principles seen through American Spectacles " (New York, 1855) ; " The Confessions of an Inquirer" (3 parts, Boston, 1857-'69); "Art Studies: The Old Masters of Italy " (New York, 1861) ; " The Art Idea, Sculp- ture, Painting, and Architecture in America " (Bos- ton, 1866) ; " Art Thoughts : The Experiences and Observations of an American Amateur in Europe " (1869); "Glimpses at the Art of Japan" (New York, 1876) J and " Italian Rambles " (1884).

JARVIS, Abraham, P. E. bishop, b. in Nor- walk, Conn., 5 May, 1739 ; d. in New Haven, Conn., 3 May, 1813. He was graduated at Yale in 1761, and soon after leav- ing college became lay-reader in the parish at Middle- town, Conn., mean- while studying the- ology. He was or- dained priest in England, 19 Feb., 1764, by the Bishop of Carlisle, and on returning to Con- necticut was set- tled as rector of Christ church, Mid- dletown. At the beginning of the Revolution he was subjected to great inconvenience and many trials, as he did not hold that the Decla- ration of Independence dissolved the ecclesiasti- cal obligations of his church to the Church of England. On 23 July, 1776, a convention of the Episcopal clergy of Connecticut was held at New Haven, over which Mr. Jarvis presided. It was resolved to suspend all public worship in the churches, it being held that it would be unsafe to continue the reading of the entire liturgy. Shortly after the declaration of peace he took an active part in the movement which result- ed in the consecration of Bishop Seabury (q. v.), most of the official papers on the subject which were sent to England being written by him. On the death of Seabury in 1796, Mr. Jarvis was elect- ed to succeed him, but declined. On being again elected in June, 1797, he accepted and was conse- crated by Bishop Provoost, of New York, Bishop Bass, of Massachusetts, and Bishop White. He continued at Middletown for two years after his consecration and then removed to Cheshire, and in 1803 to New Haven, where he remained until his death. Bishop Jarvis was didactic and often metaphysical in the pulpit. He published a "Sermon on the Death of Bishop Seabury " (1796), and another on "The Witness of the Spirit." — His son, Samuel Farmar, clergyman, b. in Middletown, Conn., 20 Jan., 1786 ; d. there, 26 March, 1851, was graduated at Yale in 1805, and ordained priest, 5 April, 1811. The same year he took charge of St. Michael's church, Bloomingdale, N. Y., and in 1813 was also made rector of St. James's church, New York city, retaining both parishes until May, 1819. In the latter year he was appointed professor of biblical learning in the recently established New York general theological seminary, but he resigned in 1820 on being elected the first rector of St. Paul's, Boston, Mass. Here he remained six years, when he gave up his charge to sail for Europe, with a view of qualifying himself for certain works that he had projected, relating to the history of the church. During a nine years' absence he visited all the important libraries and explored every accessible source of information on the subjects to which his attention had been directed. On his return in 1835 he accepted the professorship of