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* JOITES. 283 JONES. JONES, Samuel Porter, coinmonlj' known as gelist' (1S47 — ). An American evangelist of the
 * Sam Jones,' and often styled "the Mountain Evan-
 * lethodist Episcopal Cliureh, South, born iu

■Chambers County, Ala. He was admitted to the bar in ISOU, and for a time practiced success- fully. His professional life was ruined by his passion for drink, but after his father's deatli iu 1872 he was converted, iu the same .year was ■ordained a clergj-man of the Jlethodist Episcopal Church, South, and at once began preaching. His iuecess from tlie first was remarkable, and he became widely known as a speaker on evan- gelistic, revival, and Chautauqua platforms, ilany of his sermons, discourses peculiar to them- selves in their unconventionality, have been pub- lished in his works: Sermons and Sayings hfj Sam Jones; Music Hall Sermons; Quit Your Meanness ; Saint Louis Series; Sam Jones's Own Bool;: and ThunderhoUs. JONES, TiiOM.^s (1731-92). An American lawyer and Tory, bom at Fort Neck, L. I. He graduated from Yale in 1750; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1755; became city attorney and recorder, and in 1773 succeeded his father, David .Jones (1G99-1775). as judge of the Su- preme Court, an office which he held under the ■C!rown. He was twice captured by the Revolu- tionary forces and twice paroled; in 1779 he wa.s captured in spite of his parole and exchanged (1780) for Gen. Gold Selleck Silliman. A year afterwards he removed to England, and was at- tainted in 1782 by the New York Legislature. Jones wrote a Bistory of 'Sew York During the Revolutionary War, published by the Historical Society in 1879. The work has the value of a sole contemporary document, and is loyalist in sympathies. JONES, Thom.^s ap Catesbt( 1787-1858). An American naval officer, born in Virginia. He •entered the nav}' in 1805, and three years later was sent to the Gulf of Jlexico, where he wa.s engaged until the outbreak of the Var of 1812 in suppressing piracy, smuggling, and the slave trade. He saw no active service against the Brit- ish until nearly the end of the war when he at- tempted with his squadron of five gunboats manned by 182 men to bar the passage across Lake Borgne to the fleet under Vice - Admiral ■Cochrane, which was transporting General Pack- •cnham's arjuy to New Orleans. He anchon'd his squadron in such a position that the deep-draught vessels of the British could not approach it, and so forced the latter to attack in their tenders. After an obstinate resistance, in which he inflicted severe loss upon his assailants, but during which he was himself badly wounded, his vessels were •captured. In 1820 .Jones was promoted to the rank of commander, and in 1829 to that of cap- tain. At tliis time conditions in the Hawaiian Islands were attracting attention in the L'nited Slates and in England. The missionaries, most of wlfom were Americans, had secured practical ■control of the Government; but opposed to them ■was an aggressive party composed of sailors and merchants which was headed by the British con- sul, Richard Charlton, who wished to secure the cession of the islands to Great Britain. Com- mander Jones in the sloop-of-war Peacock was sent out in 1820 to secure payment of debts ■claimed by American citizens, and to endeavor to restore peace between the warring factions. Vol. XI.— 10. He remained almost three months; collected the debts ; denied publicly Charlton's assertion that the islands were a British dependency; and pre- sided over a meeting at which the missionaries met the charges of their adversaries. In 1842, while commanding the Pacific squadron, he heard that war had been declared against Jlc.xico, and, believing from the actions of the British war-ship Dublin that that Giovernment intended to annex California, he landed a force at ilonlerey and look possession in the name of the United Slates. For this indiscretion he was temporarily removed from his command. JONES, Thomas Rupert (1819—). An Eng- lish geologist, born in London. He was sent to scliool at Taunton and Ilminster, and afterwards studied medicine, but in 18.50 became assistant secretary to the London Geological Societ}'. He ■was professor of geology at the Royal Military and Staff Colleges, Sandhurst, from 18G2 till superannuated in 1880. His works include: Monograph of the Cretaceous Entomostraca (1849) ; The Tertiary Entomostraca in England (1850); Monograph of the Fossil Estherice (1802) ; Monograph of the Arctic and North At- lantic Foraminifera (1805) ; Foraminifera of the Crag (1800); Monograph of the Carboniferous Cypridinidce (1874); PuUeozoic Phyllopoda (1S88). JONES, Sir William (1740-94). A famous English Orientalist, Indian jurist, and lilterateur. He was born in London, September 28, 1740, and was sent to Harrow in 1753. In 1704 he was en- tered at University College, Oxford, where he was enabled to gratify his desire for a knowledge of the Oriental languages. In 1705 he left O.xford, to become tutor to Earl Spencer's eldest son, with whom he remained five years. In 1770 he published, at the request of the King of Den- niark, a Life of Nadir Shah, translated into French from the Persian; in the following year, a Persian Grammar (1772; several times re- published) ; and iu 1774 his Poeseos Asiaticm Com nientariorum Libri Sex, republished by Eich- horn at Leipzig in 1770. In 1780 he completed a translation of the seven Arabic poems known as the Moallakat, which obtain their collective name from being suspended in the temple at Mecca; wrote an essay On the Legal Mode of Suppressing Riots; and another, entitled Essay on the Law of Bailments, and two or three odes. In March, 1783, Jones was knighted, and obtained a judge- ship in the Supreme Court of Judicature in Ben- gal, and landed at Calcutta in Sejitemlier. He at once set about the acquisition and promulgation of the knowledge of Oriental languages, literature, and customs. He established the Royal Asiatic Society, of which he ;as the first president. To the volumes of the Asiatic Researches Sir Wil- liam contributed largely. Besides these, he wrote and published a story in verse, called The En- chanted Fruit, or the Hindu Wife: and a transla- tion of an ancient Indian drama, called Sa- kuntala. or the Fatal Ring ( 1789). which aroused widespread interest in the literary circles of Europe. A translation by him of the Ordinances of Manu (q.v.) appeared in 1794. He was busily employed on a digest of the Hindu and Moham- medan laws at the time of his death, April 27, 1794. Jones was one of the greatest linguists and Oriental scholars that England has produced, and his enthusiasm and literary ability did much to arouse general interest in i;ii3 suojcct. The