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 322 BARNES slight emendations ; and at his death he had completed a new revision, with additions, em- bodying the results of the latest researches. The publication of this edition was completed in 1872 (6 vols. 12mo, New York). During the discussions which led to the temporary disruption of the Presbyterian church, Mr. Barnes was arraigned on a charge of heresy, based mainly upon some passages in his " Notes on the Epistle to the Romans." He was ac- quitted, but was recommended to change a few expressions which were thought liable to misconstruction ; this was done, but the alter- ation involved no substantial variations of opin- ion from his earlier form of expression. When the Presbyterian church was divided, he re- mained with the New School branch. The de- gree of D. D. was repeatedly conferred upon him, but was declined. Besides his work as pastor and commentator, Mr. Barnes took a firm though moderate part in the movement against slavery in America. He also wrote largely for periodicals, and published, besides the works mentioned, an excellent introduc- tory essay to "Butler's Analogy," "Scriptural Views of Slavery," "The Way of Salvation," "The Atonement," "Claims of Episcopacy," "Church Manual," "Lectures on the Eviden- ces of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century," "Prayers for Family Worship," his "Defence" when on trial upon charge of heresy, several volumes of sermons, and a series of Sunday school question books. BARNES, Thomas, an English journalist, born about 1785, died May 7, 1841. He was educated at Christ's hospital, London (where Leigh Hunt was his contemporary), and at Pembroke col- lege, Cambridge, and after having published some powerful political letters in the "Times" newspaper, he succeeded Dr. (afterward Sir John) Stoddart in the editorship, which posi- tion he continued to occupy for nearly 25 years, finally becoming one of the proprietors. Among the best leaders from his pen was that on the character of George IV., which accompanied the obituary notice of that monarch, and a se- vere analysis of the character of Lord Broug- ham, suggested by the premature announcement of his death in 1839. BARNES, William, an English poet and phi- lologist, born in Dorsetshire in 1810. His fam- ily were farmers, his means of education were limited, and his philological learning was the result of study late in life. He was for a while a teacher in Dorsetshire, became curate of Whitcombe in 1847, and rector of Winter- bourn Came in 1862. He is the author of "Poems in the Dorset Dialect" (1864) and " Poems of Rural Life " (1868). Among his philological and scientific works are : a " Gram- mar of the Dorset Dialect ;" a " Philological Grammar," grounded upon English and formed from a comparison of more than 60 languages ; "Tiev, or a View of the Roots and Stems of the English as a Teutonic Tongue;" "An An- glo-Saxon Dilectus;" "Views of Labor and BARNEY Gold ; " and a treatise on linear perspective and the projection of shadows. BARiVEVELDT, Jan Van Olden, grand pension- ary of Holland, born at Amersfoort, Sept. 14, 1547, beheaded at the Hague, May 13, 1619. After studying law and divinity five years he began to practise law at the Hague "in 1569, and soon became known as an able lawyer. He served hi the army against the Spaniards, and was present at the siege of Haarlem in 1573. In 1585, after the death of William of Orange, he headed a deputation which offer- ed the sovereignty of the Dutch provinces to Queen Elizabeth. The queen refused the oft'er, but sent a force under the earl of Leicester to their assistance. Barneveldt was soon after- ward appointed advocate general or grand pen- sionary of Holland and West Fricsland, and became leader of the republican party which favored subordinating the stadtholder to the legislature. He opposed the influence which the earl of Leicester was gaining, and in order to limit his military power had the dignity of stadtholder conferred on the young Prince Maurice, son of William of Orange. In 1603 he was one of an embassy to James I., and succeeded in obtaining the secret aid of Eng- land and France against Spain. In the religious strife between the Gomarists and Arminians, which began in 1604 and soon included all the clergy and laity of Holland, Barneveldt, who with most of the eminent scholars and statesmen of the country favored the more liberal views of the Arminians, endeavored to reconcile the two factions, now upon the point of war, by a conference of ecclesiastics, which resulted in a declaration of general toleration on the disputed points. In this the states con- curred, and in 1614 an edict was issued enjoin- ing peace. But Maurice, now Barneveldt's great rival, being at the head of the military party which had favored a prosecution of the war with Spain, while Barneveldt had in 1609 concluded a truce of 12 years, procured the summoning of the council of Dort, Nov. 13, 1618, which condemned entirely the Arminian doctrines. Barneveldt and his friend Grotius had already been arrested at the instigation of Maurice in the beginning of that year. His trial soon followed the decision of the synod, and was a mere farce, it having been already determined that he should die. He was found guilty, among other things, of "having brought the church of God into trouble," and was be- headed. As grand pensionary, which office he held until the year before his death, he con- ducted through peace and war the affairs of the commonwealth with great ability ; and in the conflicts of religious factions he advocated I the most enlightened measures of toleration and freedom. His two sons formed a plot to avenge his death by assassinating Maurice. The con- spiracy being detected, one of them escaped, while the other was seized and executed. BARNEY, Joshna, an American naval officer, born in Baltimore, July 6, 1759, died in Pitts-