JENNINGS, JAMES, was born at Huntspill in Somersetshire in 1772, and after a common education, placed in a chemist's shop at Bristol, where he applied with assiduity to the studies necessary to his profession, and also to the languages. Here also he formed an intimacy with Mr. Southey, by whose conversation he was prompted to cultivate an acquaintance with the Muses. While in Bristol he published a series of Essays under the title of the "Speculator," in a weekly newspaper, and several of his poetical pieces appeared in other periodical publications. He is now settled in business in his native town. The Times, a satirical rhapsody, 4to. 1794.-Poems, consisting of the Mysteries of Mendip, the Magic Ball, Sonnets, &c. 12mo. 1810.-The Prospects of Africa, with other poems, 12no. 1814. JENNINGS, WILLIAM. A General System of Attack and Defence, with one General Rule for erecting Fortifications without the circuitous aid of Trigonometry, 8vo. 1804. JENNYNS, JOSEPH CLAYTON, Esq. Barrister at Law of Lincoln's Inn. He is the author of a very elaborate treatise entitled, Observations on the Fourth Report relative to the conduct of the Dutch Commissioners, 8vo. 1810. JENOUR, MATTHEW, a Captain in the Army. The Route to India, through France, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Natolia, Syria, and the Desert of Arabia, 4to. 1791. JORDAN, WILLIAM, Esq. A Voyage to the Isle of Elba, from the French of Thiebaut de Berneaud, 8vo. 1814. JEREMY, HENRY, A.B. of Trinity Coll. · Cambridge. The Connexion of Religion and Learning, a Norrisian Prize Essay, 8vo. 1810. JERMENT, GEORGE, a Minister of the congregation of Seceders from the Church of Scotland. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, from whence he was invited to England, where he became assistant to the Rev. Mr. Wilson, at the meeting in Bow-lane, Cheapside. On the death of that gentleman he was chosen to succeed him, and the meeting proving inconvenient, the members of the church purchased the chapel in Oxendon street, Haymarket, which was originally built by the celebrated Richard Baxter. Mr. Jerment has published: Parental Duty, or the Religious Education of Chil dren, illustrated and urged in several Discourses, 12mo. 1791-Early Piety illustrated and recommend ed in several Discourses, 12mo. 1793.-Religion a Monitor to the Middle Aged, and the Glory of Old Men, in several Discourses, 12mo. 1796.-An Edition of Gibbons's Memoirs of Pious Women, 2 v. 8vo. 1801.-The Works of Archbishop Leighton, with the Life and some Original Remains of that great man, 1813. Mr. Jerment was also the Editor of the Theological Magazine till it ceased for want of encourage ment. JERRAM, CHARLES, M.A. of Magdalen College, Cambridge, and formerly Minister of Long Sutton in Lincolnshire, is the author of the following pieces in Scripture for expecting a future Restoration of the Jews," published in pursuance of the will of the late Mr. Norris as having gained the annual prize instituted by him in the University of Cambridge, 8vo. 1796.-The Christian Ministry, exemplified in the tation of the Archdeacon of Lincoln, held at Boston, character of St. Paul; a Sermon preached at a visisvo.-Letters to an Universalist, containing a Review An Essay tending to shew "the Grounds contained of the controversy between Mr. Vidler and Mr. Fuller, on the Doctrine of Universal Salvation, Evo.To your Tents, Oh Britons! a Sermon preached at Sutton St Mary, July 31, 1803, 8vo.-Letters on the Atonement, Evo. 1804.-The Last Adieu of David to his Son Solomon, and of St. Paul to the Ephesians, two Sermons, 8vo. 1805. JERVIS, Sir JOHN WHITE, bart. of the kingdom of Ireland, but a resident at Bristol, where, at the last election, he offered himself a candidate without success. He has published: A Letter addressed to the Gentlemen of England and Ireland, on the inexpediency of a Union between the two Kingdoms, 8vo. 1798.-A Refutation of Montgaillard's Display of the Situation of Great Britain, 8vo. 1812.-A Brief Statement of the Rise, Progress and Decline of the Ancient Christian Church, 8vo. 1813. JERVIS, THOMAS, a Dissenting Minister of the Unitarian persuasion. He was employed by the Marquis of Lansdowne as preceptor to his children, and on the death of Dr. Kippis, he succeeded him in the charge of the congregation meeting in Princes' Street, Westminster; since which he has removed to Mill Hill Cha pel at Lecds in Yorkshire. His works are: The Social Worship of one God agreeable to Reason and Scripture, a Sermon preached in the Chapel in Princes' Street, Westminster, March 27. 1796, 8vo.-Reflections on the State of Religion and Knowledge, at the close of the Eighteenth Century, a discourse. 8vo. 1801.-The Christian Name, a discourse deliver ed at Mill Hill Chapel on accepting the pastoral office there, 8vo. 1809.-The Virtuous Claims of Humanity, a Sermon for the Benefit of the Leeds la firmary, 8vo. 1809.-The presiding Providence of God, a Sermon on the Fast Day, 8vo. 1810.-Sermons on Various Subjects, 8vo. 1811.-A Speech intended to have been spoken at a general meeting of the inhabitants of Leeds, on the State of the Kingdom, 8vo. 1813.-A Funeral Sermon for the Rev. John Simpson, 8vo. 1813. Jesse, Wenbir, A.M. a Calvinistic Clergyman, minister and lecturer at West Bromwich in Staffordshire. He is the author of: Parochialia, or Observations on the Discharge of Parochial Duties, 8vo. 1787.-Defence of the Established Church, against Dr. Priestley, 12mo. 1788. The Happiness of Man, a Sermon, 8vo. 1793.-A Dis. sertation on the Learning and Inspiration of the Apostles, 8vo. 1798.-On the Scriptures, and of the Unity of Design and Harmony of Doctrine in the Old and New Testament, 8vo. 1799.-Sermons on the Person and Office of the Redeemer, and on the Faith and Practice of the Redeemed, 8vo. 1810. JODRELL, PAUL, the son of an eminent barrister, who was formerly Solicitor General to the Prince of Wales. The present gentleman is, M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, and author of two dramatic pieces, viz. A Widow and No Widow, 8vo. 1780.-Seeing is Be lieving, 8vo. 1786. JODRELL, RICHARD PAUL, jun. of Lewkner in Oxfordshire, and a son of the late Richard Paul Jodrell, member of parliament, and author of poems and other works. The son has written: Carmina Selecta, tum Græca tum Latina, 8vo. 1810. Geographical and Historical Account of the Island of JOHN, CHRIST. SAM., senior member of the Danish mission at Tranquebar, corresponding member of the imperial academy at Eslingen, of the imperial academy of economy at Petersburgh, of the Asiatic society at Calcutta, and of the societies of Natural History at Berlin, Jena and Ratisbon. Besides some interesting papers in the volumes of Ancient Researches, Dr. John has published separately a treatise on Indian Civilization, or a Report of the successful experiment made during two years, in fifteen English, and five Native Free Schools, 8vo. 1813. Jeunee, Tuomne, Beq. Pb.9. Steward of the Crown Manors, and Auditor of the landed revenues for Wales, Lord Lieutenant and M.P. for the county of Cardigan. He is a native of Wales, and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1783. His beautiful residence at Hafod in Cardiganshire, was burnt down some years ago; but is now rebuilt in the same style of elegance, and surrounded by a delightful scenery. Here also the liberal proprietor has a printing press, from which have issued several works of considerable importance, as: Memoirs of the Life of Froissart, from the French of St. Palaye, 8vo. 1802; and again in 4to. 1810.-The Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and other countries, translated from the French of Sir John Froissart, 4 v. 4to. 3d edit. 10 v. 8vo. 1806.-Memoirs of John Lord de Joinville, translated from the French, 2 v. 4to. 1807.-The Travels of Bertrandon de la Brocquiere to Palestine, 8vo. 1807.-The Chronicles of Monstrelet with notes, 5 v. 4to. or 12 v. 8vo. 1810. JOHNS, Rev. WILLIAM. Etymological Exercises on the Latin Grammar, 18mo. JOHNSON, Mrs. A. M. JOHNSON, Rev. BENJAMIN. JOHNSON, C. H. of Brazenose College, John the Baptist, a prize poem, recited in the Theatre at Oxon, in 1809, 12mo. JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER, Surgeon at Lancaster. An Essay on the signs of murder in new-born children, translated from the French, 8vo. 1813. JOHNSON, Mrs. D. The Brothers in High Life, nov. 3 v. 12mo. 1813. JOHNSON, JAMES, Surgeon in the Royal Navy. The Oriental Voyager, being the narrative of a voyage to India in the Caroline Frigate, 8vo. 1807.—An Essay on the influence of Tropical Climates, 8vo. 1814. JOHNSON, JOHN, of Oriel College, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1782, is known only as the author of, Trifles in Verse, 8vo. 1796. JOHNSON, J. Esq. View of the Jurisprudence of the Isle of Man, 8vo. 1811. JOHNSON, Rev. JOHN, LL.D. rector of JOHNSON, J. LL.B. and chaplain to the Earl of Peterborough; was the nephew of Mr. Cowper the poet. He is the editor of, The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, translated into blank verse, by W. Cowper, Esq. 4 vols. 8vo. 1802. JOHNSON, JOHN. Short Essay on Agricultural Improvements, 8vo. 1814. JOHNSON, Major, of the third Ceylon regiment, has published: A narrative of the operations of a detachment in an expedition to Candy in the Island of Ceylon, in the year 1804; with some observations on the previous campaign, and on the nature of Candian warfare, 8vo. 1810. JOHNSON, MARY F. of Wroxall Farm, in the Isle of Wight. Original Sonnets and other Poems, 8vo. 1810. An impartial History of Europe from the death of Louis XVI. to the present time, 8vo. 1814. Lessing's Disbanded Officer, 8vo. 1786.-J. Beeck JOHNSON, WILLIAM, Esq. Barrister-at-man's History of Inventions and Discoveries, from law. the German, 3 v. 8vo. 1797.-Voyage to the East In dies, by P. da San Bartolomeo, with the notes of J. Letter to Joshua Spencer, Esq. on a union with Ire- R. Forster, 8vo. 1800.-New Introduction to En land, 8vo. 1798. JOHNSON, W. B. M. B. History of the progress and present state of Animal Electricity, 3 v. 8vo. 1803. JOHNSON, WILLIAM MOORE, and THOS. EXLEY, of Bristol. The Imperial Encyclopædia, 4 v. 4to. 1809. The History of Greece, in easy verse, 12mo. 1807.A poetical History of Rome, 12mo. 1807.-A poeti cal Pantheon, 12mo. 1819.-The Grammar of Geography, in verse, 12mo. 1812. JOHNSTON, HENRY, Fellow of the Roy. Coll. of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Practical Observations on Urinary Gravel and Stone; on diseases of the Bladder and Prostate Glands, and on strictures in the Urethra, 8vo. 1806. JOHNSTON, JOHN, Minister of Cross Michael, N. B. Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Bryce Johnston, prefixed to his Sermons, 8vo. 1808. JOHNSTONE, Hon. ANDREW COCHRANE, brother to Lord Dundonald, and late M. P. for Grampound, in Cornwall, but expelled the House of Commons in July, 1814, for having been convicted in the Court of King's Bench of a fraud on the Stock Exchange. Before the judgment was pronounced, he quitted the kingdom with one of his associates in that nefarious transaction. He has published, Proceedings of the general Court-Martial on Major John Gordon of the 8th West India Regiment, 8vo. 1804.-Defence of the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, 8vo. 1805. JOHNSTONE, JOHN, M. D. Physician at Birmingham. He is the son of Dr. Jas. Johnstone, of Worcester, and formerly of Merton College, Oxford, where he took the degree of M. A. 1792; that of M. B. 1793; and Doctor of Physic in JONES, Rev. D. Reasons for Peace, stated in a discourse delivered in the Union Chapel, Birmingham, Feb. 25, 1795, 8vo. JONES, EDWARD, Esq. barrister of the Inner Temple. Index to Records, called the Originalia and Memo randa, on the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's side of the Exchequer, 2 v. fol. 1795. JONES, EDWARD, Esq. The prevention of Poverty, by beneficial clubs, with preliminary observations upon Houses of Industry, and the Poor Laws, 8vo. 1796.-A defence of the Convention in Portugal, 8vo. 1808. JONES, EDWARD, Bard to the Prince of Wales, is a native of Henblas Llandervel, in Merionethshire. He is a musician by profession, and perhaps the most distinguished performer on the harp of the present day. He holds a situation in the office of robes in the Lord Steward's Court, at St. James's, and may be considered as the last of the race of Welsh Bards. Mr. Jones has favored the world with many musical works, and he is entitled to a place here by some publications of singular curiosity, viz. Musical and Poetical Relics of the Welsh Bards, preserved by tradition and authentic manuscripts from very remote antiquity, never before published; with a general history of the Bards and Druids, and a copious dissertation on the musical instruments of the Aboriginal Britous, folio, 3d edit. 1812.-The Bardic Museum of primitive British Literature, and other admirable varieties, folio, 1802.-Lyric Airs, consisting of specimens of Greek, Albanian, Wallachian, Turkish, Arabian, Persian, Chinese, and Moorish national Songs, fol. 1810.-Terpsichore's Banquet, or select beauties of various national melodies, 1813. JONES, EDWARD, teacher of the classics and geography, at Bromley, in Kent. The Young Geographer and Astronomer's best Companion, 12mo. 1773. 2d edit. 1792. Travels in the French Republic, by Dr. Bugge, translated from the Danish, 12mo. 1801.-De libellis famosis, or the Law of Libels, 8vo. 1812. JONES, JOHN, a Unitarian teacher, and member of the Philological Society at Manchester. The Reason of Man, in answer to Paine, 8vo. 1793. 8vo. 1797.-A vindication of the Bishop of Landaff's JONES, EDWARD, an accomptant in A defence of the Mosaic account of the Creation, Bristol, who contrived some years ago Apology for the Bibie, 8vo. 1797.-The Epistle of Paul to procure a great number of subscribers to the Romans analysed, 8vo. 1802.-Grammar of the to a pretended improvement in book- Greek Tongue, 12mo. 1805. 2d ed. 1810. 3d ed. 1814. keeping, on which he published a pomp--Illustrations of the Four Gospels, 8vo. 1808.-A ous book, entitled, The English System of Book-keeping, by single or double entry, in which it is impossible for any error of the most trifling amount to be passed unnoticed; calculated effectually to prevent the evils attendant on the methods so long established; and adapted to every species of trade. Secured to the inventor by the king's royal letters patent, that make it illegal for any person to use the method without the patentee's licence or authority, which is given with the work, 4to. No sooner did this piece of quackery appear, but it was attacked by several able accountants, and the fallacy so completely exposed, that the author and the work fell into contempt. JONES, EDWIN GODDEN, M.D. Memb. of the Roy. Coll. of Physicians, and Physician extraordinary to the Duke of York. Account of the effects of the Eau Medicinale in Gout, 8vo. 1810. JONES, FREDERIC, a Captain in the army, in the service of the East India Company, is the author of, A brief account of the Tullagaum Expedition from Bombay, 4to. 1794.-Letters merely intended for and by the desire of intimate friends, 4to. 1795. The last publication consists of letters from France and China. JONES, FREDERIC CONINGESBY, an Attorney of Gray's Inn. The Attorney's New Pocket Book and Conveyancer's Assistant, 2 v. 12mo. 1794. 2d edit. with additions in 1798. JONES, HARRIET. The Family of Sautraile, or the Heir of Montault, nov. 4 v. 12mo. 1809. JONES, JENKIN, a Capt. in the army, and the author of various miscellaneous pieces in the monthly publications, besides which he has printed, Hobby-horses, a poetical allegory in five parts, 12mo. 1797.-The Philanthropist, dram. piece, 8vo. 1801.— Pros and Cons for Cupid and Hymen, in a series of metrical satiric dialogues, exhibiting the horrors and delights of being over head and ears in love; with the supreme felicity and wretchedness of matrimony, 12mo. 1807.-Unfortunate Amours, nov. 4 v. 12mo. Grammar of the Latin Tongue, 12mo. 1810.-A Latin and English Vocabulary, 12mo. 1812.-Ecclesiastical Researches, or Philo and Josephus proved to be Christians, 8vo. 1812.-Sequel to the Researches on the first chapters of Matthew and Luke, 8vo. 1813.-And author of several articles in the Classical Journal. JONES, JOHN GALE, an Apothecary of London, who has distinguished himself by his zeal in the cause of political reform, or rather as the advocate of liberty, equality, and universal suffrage. He has chiefly subsisted by his connexion with debating societies, particularly that called the Westminster Forum; but having published a scurrilous hand-bill on the House of Commons, he was committed to Newgate, from whence he was liberated on the same day that Sir Francis Burdett was released from the Tower. He has published the following tracts: Sketch of a Speech at the Westminster Forum in 1794, 8vo.-A political Tour through Kent for the purpose of promoting the cause of Parliamentary Reform, 8vo. 1796.-An Oration on the character of Washington, 8vo. 1797.-Observations on the Tussis Convul siva, or Hooping Cough, 8vo. 1798.-Invocation to Edward Quin, Esq. 8vo. 1804.-Five Letters to the Right Hon. G. Tierney, 8vo. 1806.-In 1010 was published a warning to the frequenters of Debating Clubs, being a History of the rise and progress of those Societies, with a report of the Trial and Conviction of John Gale Jones, the manager of the British Forum, 8vo. JONES, J. T. Brevet Lieut. Colonel in the British Army. Journals of the Sieges undertaken by the Allies in Spain, in 1811 and 12, with notes and plates, 8vo. 1814. JONES, J. F. D. M.D. A Treatise on the process employed by nature in suppressing the hemorrhage from divided and punctured JONES, STEPHEN, son of Giles Jones, Secretary to the York Buildings Water Company, was born in London in 1763. After going through St. Paul's School, he was placed under an eminent Sculptor; but on account of some difference he was taken from that situation and apprenticed to a printer in Fetter-lane. On the expiration of his time he was engaged as corrector of the press in the office of Mr. Strahan, but at the end of four years he removed to that of Mr. Thos. Wright, in Peterborough-court, where he remained till the death of his principal in March, 1797, an event which terminated Mr. Jones's immediate connexion with the profession of a printer; and he became the editor of the Whitehall Evening Post; but on the decline of that paper he undertook the management of the General Evening Post. He was also for some time the conductor of a monthly publication called the "Free Mason's Magazine," and on the death of Isaac Reed, he became the editor of the European Magazine. His separate works are: Abridgment of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, 12mo. 1791.-Monthly Beauties, 8vo. 1793. An abridgment of Ward's Natural History, 3 v. 12mo. 1793.-A History of Poland, 8vo. 1795.A biographical Dictionary in miniature, 12mo. 1796. Dodd's Beauties of History enlarged, 12mo. 1796.An abridgment of Donald Campbell's Journey to India, 12mo. 1796.-Masonic Miscellanies, 12mo. 1797. A pronouncing and explanatory Dictionary of the English Language, 8vo. 1798.-Gray's Poetical Works with Illustrations, 8vo. 1798.-The Spirit of the Public Journals, from 1799 to the present time, 12mo. Dr. John Blair's Chronology, continued to 1802, folio, 1803.-Davies's Life of Garrick, a new edition with additions, 2 v. 8vo. 1808.-Biographia Dra. matica, or a Companion to the Playhouse, with the additions of Mr. Isaac Reed, 4 v. 8vo. 1812.-Hypersriticism Exposed; in a letter to the readers of the Quarterly Review, 8vo. 1812. JONES, THEOPHILUS, Deputy Registrar of the Archdeaconry of Brecon. He is the industrious compiler of a topographical work of some merit, the History of Brecknockshire, 3 v. 4to. 1809. JONES, WILLIAM, F.A.S. and a mathematical instrument maker, which business he acquired under the celebrated published, George Adams, of Fleet street. He has Geometrical and Graphical Essays, containing a General Description of Mathematical Instruments used in Geometry, Surveying, &c. 2 v. 8vo. 1798. 4th ed. 1813.-Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, by the late G. Adams, enlarged, 5 v. 8vo. 1799. Letters on Electricity. 8vo. 1800.-Astronomical and Geographical Essays, by the late G. Adams, im proved, 6th ed. 8vo. 1812. JONES, WILLIAM. Essay on the Life and Writings of Mr. Abraham Booth, the Baptist Minister, 8vo. 1808.-History of the Waldenses, 8vo. 1811. JONES, WILLIAM, of Liverpool. The Trial of Charles Angus, Esq. for the supposed Murder of Miss Margaret Burns, 8vo. 1803.-The Proceedings on the Trial of an Indictment against John Hanson, Esq. for a Conspiracy to aid the Weavers of Manchester, 8vo. 1809. JONES, WILLIAM TODD, Esq. Letter upon the subject of certain apprehensions which have arisen from a proposed restoration of Catholic Rights, &c. 8vo. 1792. JOPP, JAMES, Esq. Reflections on the Constitution and Representative System of England, 8vo. 1811. JORDAN, G. W. Esq. F.R.S. and colonial Agent for Barbadoes. The Claims of the British West India Colonists to the Right of obtaining Supplies from America, stated and vindicated, 8vo. 1804. JORDAN, WILLIAM, Esq. The Jubilee, a poem, 8vo. 1809. JORGENSEN, M. a native of Denmark, and while mate of a vessel engaged in the Southern Whale-fishery visited Otaheite twice in 1806. In 1809 he went to Iceland in an English merchant vessel, and having contrived to seize the Danish governor, he caused himself to be proclaimed Protector of the Island, but on the arrival of a British ship of war, he was stripped of his authority and sent back a prisoner to England. He has published: JONES, THOMAS, Curate of Creaton, is The State of Christianity in Otaheite, 8vo. 1811.the author of, The Copenhagen Expedition traced to other causes The Scripture Directory, of the Old and New Testa- than the Treaty of Tilsit, 8vo. 1811. ment, 8vo. 1811. 4th edit. 1813. JONES, Rev. THOMAS, A.M. lately Curate to the Rev. Mr. Martyn, Rector of St. George the Martyr, Queen-square, on being dismissed from that station, A Letter on Ecclesiastical Liberality, addressed to the Rev. J. L. Martyn, 8vo. 1812. JOSEPH, NAHUM, a converted Jew, and Teacher of the Hebrew Language, has edited, under the respectable sanction of the Bishop of St. David's, a valuable work which was become very scarce, entitled : Robertson's Compendious Hebrew Dictionary, with corrections and improvements; a Vocabulary of He JONES, T. the author of some trifling brew Primitives in English and Hebrew; Tables of performances, entitled, Phantoms, or the Irishman in England, far. 8vo. 1803.-Confined in Vain, or a Double-to-do, far. 8vo. Chronology and Antiquities, and an easy Method of reading Hebrew with or without Points, 8vo. 1814. JOSSE, AUGUSTINE LOUIS, a French ec |