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 476 FREISING FRELINGHUYSEN favorably received that he gave up his situa- tion, and removed to Darmstadt. In 1842 he received from the king of Prussia a pension of $300, and removed to St. Goar on the Rhine. The liberal party, with whom he was strongly allied in sentiment, being offended at his ac- ceptance of a royal pension, he gave it up in 1844, and in that year his Glaubensbekenntniss ("Confession of Faith") subjected him to po- litical persecution which drove him abroad. He went to Belgium, to Switzerland, and finally to England, where German merchants gave him employment. In 1848, on the invitation of Longfellow, he had engaged a passage to the United States, when the revolutionary movement in Germany determined him to re- turn to his own country. He settled in Diis- seldorf, and by his popular lyrics greatly in- creased the enthusiasm of the democratic par- ty. His poem Die Todten an die Lebenden ("The Dead to the Living") subjected him to indictment and prosecution by the govern- ment. He was defended by celebrated law- yers, and his trial produced an intense excite- ment. On his acquittal (Oct. 3, 1848) the poem was in immediate demand, numerous editions were issued, and it was circulated all over Germany. This is said to have been the first instance in Prussia of a jury trial for a political crime. Being still exposed to persecution by the government, Freiligrath returned to Lon- don in 1851, and was subjected to many trials until he became connected with the London branch of the bank of Switzerland ; but the suspension of this institution in 1866 placed him again in difficulties, from which he was relieved by a national subscription taken up by his friends and admirers in Germany, which placed him in possession of a handsome income. Since 1868 he has resided at Stuttgart. During the Franco-German war he wrote numerous pa- triotic songs which became popular. His prin- cipal works are : GedicJite (Stuttgart, 1838 ; 31st ed., 1874), Die Revolution (Leipsic, 1848), and Neuere politische und sociale Gedichte (Cologne, 1849). A complete edition of his works in 6 volume* appeared in New York in 1858-' 9, and in Stuttgart in 1870. Freiligrath has also been an extensive compiler and trans- lator. Among his most important translations are portions of Shakespeare, Mrs. Hemans, and Tennyson, the whole of Burns, and Longfel- low's " Hiawatha." A selection, by his daugh- ter, from the English translations of his poems was published in the Tauchnitz " Collection of German Authors" (Leipsic, 1869). FREISING, Freysing, or Freisingen, a town of Bavaria, in the district of Upper Bavaria, on the Isar, 20 m. N. E. of Munich ; pop. in 1871, 7,778. It has a theological faculty, a gymna- sium, a normal school, and five churches. Near it is the former abbey of Weihenstephan, now a royal castle, and (since 1852) a normal agri- cultural establishment with a celebrated agri- cultural school. In 724 a bishopric was estab- lished at Freising, which on the reorganization of the Catholic church in Bavaria in 1802 was united with the new archbishopric of Munich, whose occupant bears the title of archbishop of Munich and Freising. FREJUS (anc. Forum Julii), a maritime town of S. France, in the department of Var, on an eminence overlooking the sea at the mouth of the Argens, 45 m. N. E. of Toulon ; pop. in 1866, 2,887 ; with the suburb of St. Raphael, 3,050. It is the seat of a bishop and a commercial court, and has an episcopal seminary, a library, and a hospital. Its manufactures are corks, soap, oil, and wine. The town was founded by a colony from Massilia, and is supposed to have derived its name from Julius Csesar. Au- gustus made it a naval station, and kept there the ships taken at the battle of Actium. The ancient harbor is now entirely filled up by the deposits of the river, and the moles at its en- trance are 3,000 ft. from the sea. Among the Roman remains are an aqueduct that can be traced more than 24 m. up the valley of the Siagnolle, an amphitheatre 650 ft. in circum- ference, a triumphal arch, and the pharos. Frejus was the birthplace of Julius Agricola and of the abbe Sieyes. FRELINGHUYSEN. I. Frederick, an American statesman, born in New Jersey, April 13, 1753, died April 13, 1804. He graduated at Prince- ton college in 1770, and in 1775 was sent as a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress. He served with distinction as cap- tain of a volunteer corps of artillery at the bat- tles of Trenton and Monmouth, and in the for- mer, it is said, shot Col. Rahl, the commander of the Hessians. He was promoted to be colo- nel, and served during the remainder of the war. After the peace he filled various state and county offices, and in 1790, when the New Jersey and Pennsylvania troops were called to take part in the expedition against the western Indians, he was appointed major general by President Washington. In 1793 he was elected a senator of the United States, which post he occupied for three years, when, in consequence of domestic bereavement, he resigned, and de- voted the remainder of his life to his family and private affairs. II. Theodore, an American statesman, son of the preceding, born at Mill- stone, Somerset co., N. J., March 28, 1787, died in New Brunswick, N. J., April 12, 1862. He graduated at Princeton college in 1804, and in 1808 was admitted to the bar, where he soon became distinguished as an eloquent ad- vocate. During the war with Great Britain in 1812-'15, he raised and commanded a company of volunteers. In 1817 he was elected attor- ney general of New Jersey by a legislature op- posed to him in politics, and held the post till 1829, when he was chosen United States sena- tor. In the senate Mr. Frelinghuysen acted with the whig party. He exerted himself in behalf of the Indians, advocated the bill to suppress the carrying of mails on the sabbath, supported Mr. Clay's resolution for a national fast in the season of the cholera, spoke in favor