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 86 FABEL handsome parish church, and Independent and Wesley an Methodist churches, free schools, and a hall for a philosophical institution. Ship building was once actively carried on, but has declined. Earthenware, bricks, and terra cotta are manufactured in large quantities, and the latter is largely exported. There is also a considerable trade in grain, canvas, rope, and timber. Fareham is a resort for sea bathing. FiREL, Gnillaume, a French reformer, born near Gap, in Dauphiny, in 1489, died in Neuf- chatel, Sept. 13, 1565. While studying at Paris he embraced the new doctrines, and went with his friend Lefevre d'Etaples to Meaux, where he began to preach. He returned to Paris in 1523, went to Basel the next year, be- came intimate with Zwingli, Haller, Grebel, and other reformers, quarrelled with Erasmus, and was banished from Basel, all within a few weeks, and then retired to Strasburg, where he was intimate with" Bncer. Preaching after- ward at Montbeliard and other places, his in- temperate zeal drew him into many troubles. One day he interrupted a procession in honor of St. Anthony by snatching the statue of the saint and throwing it into the river. To es- cape the consequences he fled, and travelled in Alsace and Switzerland. In 1527 he went to Aigle and taught school under an assumed name. In 1532, with Antoine Saunier, he rep- resented the reformed churches in the synod convened by the Vaudois of Piedmont at Chan- forans, and on his return was invited to a con- ference with the Catholics at Geneva, where the controversy became stormy, blows were exchanged, and the magistrates had to inter- fere. He was ordered to leave the city, re- turned in 1533, was again banished, came back in 1534 with letters from the seigniory of Bern, and in 1536 persuaded Calvin to aid him in the organization of the reformed church at Geneva. The party of "Libertines" gaming the upper hand in the election of 1538, Farel and Calvin were banished. Farel went to Strasburg, and organized the Protestants there amid much opposition. In March, 1543, a body of troops under Claude de Guise fell upon a congregation gathered around him at Gorze in France. Farel was wounded, and narrowly escaped with his life. He then settled as pastor at Neufchatel. In 1557 he was sent to the Protestant princes of Germany to ask their assistance for the Vaudois, and soon after he incurred the displeasure of Calvin and others by marrying a young girl. In 1561 he preached at Gap with all the violence of his youth, and was thrown into prison, from which his follow- ers released him, letting him down from the rampart in a basket. Farel was a fine scholar and excited great admiration by the brilliancy of his oratory. His writings were numerous, but mostly of temporary interest. FARIA Y SOIISA, Manoel de, a Portuguese and Spanish historian and poet, born in Portugal, March 18, 1590, died in Madrid, June 3, 1649. He was a son of Amador Perez de Erro, and FARINELLI assumed the name of his mother, who belonged to the ancient Portuguese Faria family. He Was incited to poetical composition by his ad- miration for Albania, as he called Catharina Machado, who became his wife. After his marriage he settled in Madrid, and from 1630 to 1634 he was special envoy to Rome. On his return he was placed for some time under arrest, the pagan allusions and inferences in his Comentarios sobre la Lusiada (2 vols., Madrid, 1639) having given offence to the in- quisition, though he regarded himself as a de- vout Roman Catholic. His subsequent effu- sions, collected under the title of Fuente de Aganipe (4 vols., Madrid, 1644-' 6), are in Spanish, excepting 200 sonnets and a few other pieces in Portuguese. His Discursos morales y politicos, published under the title of Noches claras, consist of dialogues, divided into seven nights. His principal historical works are : Epitome de las Mstorias portuguesas (Madrid, 1628; enlarged ed., Brussels, 1730); Asia Portuguesa (3 vols., Lisbon, 1666-'75); Euro- pea Portuguesa (3 vols., Lisbon, 1667-'78); and Africa Portuguesa (1 681). He was among the first trustworthy writers on China, and his Imperio de China, edited by Father Semmedo (Madrid, 1842), has been translated into French and Italian. Lope de Vega called him the prince of critics. FARIBAULT, a S. county of Minnesota, bor- dering on Iowa, and drained by Blue Earth river and its branches ; area, 720 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 9,940. The surface is mostly prairie; the soil is fertile. The Minnesota and North- western and the Southern Minnesota railroads pass through the county. The chief produc- tions in 1870 were 552,940 bushels of wheat, 137,496 of Indian corn, 394,992 of oats, 25,786 of barley, 29,321 of potatoes, 15,398 tons of hay, and 259,645 Ibs. of butter. There were 2,995 horses, 3,235 milch cows, 4,864 other cattle, 4,127 sheep, and 3,394 swine. Capital, Blue Earth City. FARIBAULT, a town and the capital of Rice co., Minnesota, at the confluence of the Can- non and Straight rivers, and on the Iowa and Minnesota division of the Chicago, Milwau- kee, and St. Paul railroad, 46 m. S. of St. Paul; pop. in 1870, 3,045. It is the seat of the state asylum for the deaf, dumb, and blind, and of an Episcopal academy, and contains sev- eral other schools, six or eight churches, two weekly newspapers, two national banks, and several flour mills, saw mills, founderies, &c. FARINELLI (originally BROSCHI), Carlo, on Italian singer, born in Naples or in Andria, Jan. 24, 1705, died in Bologna, July 15, 1782. The extraordinary beauty of his soprano voice was attributed to his having been emasculated. He was a favorite pupil of Porpora, and met with brilliant success at the principal theatres of Italy. In 1734 he went to London, where he soon created an excitement. He performed three years in England, and netted every year 5,000. In France his success was equally