works of our author, on sugar; the yaws; Obi, or African witchcraft; the plague and yellow fever of America; on hospitals; bronchocele ; prisons, &c. &c.; most, if not all of which, will be found, either in his medical tracts, or his treatise on the diseases of tropical climates.

Of his works we have already mentioned some, and shall now give a regular list:—

1. Observations on the Dysentery of the West Indies, Jamaica. 8vo. 1783.

2. A Treatise on the Properties and Effects of Coffee. 8vo. 1785.

3d edit.

3. Treatise on Sugar. 8vo. 1799. 2d edit.

4. Medical Tracts. 8vo. 1803. 2d edit.

5. Treatise on the Lues Bovilla, or Cow-pox. 8vo. 1806. 6. Commentaries on the Lues Bovilla, or Cow-pox. 8vo. 1st edit. 1804. 2d edit. 1805.

7. A Review of the Report of the College of Physicians on Vaccination. 8vo. 1808.

8. An Oliver for a Rowland, or a Cow-pox Epistle to the Rev. Rowland Hill. 8vo. 1808.

9. A Treatise on the Hydrophobia. 8vo. 1808.

10. A Letter to Mr. Trotter, respecting the Medical Treatment of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox; published immediately after the death of that celebrated politician.

No. XV.

WILLIAM TODD JONES, Esq.

A MEMBER OF THE LATE IRISH PARLIAMENT.

MR. JONES, of Ross-Trevor, was born in the town of Lisburn, in the kingdom of Ireland, about the year 1759, or 1760. He was descended from a good family, which had originally come from England; and having obtained lands in the sisterisle, settled there. After receiving an excellent education, Mr. Jones was called to the bar; and being a young man full of ardour, and not destitute of eloquence, he soon aspired to obtain a seat in parliament. He accordingly became a candidate to represent his native town of Lisburne; and finally succeeded, but not without some severe and expensive contests, that hurt his fortune, and shackled his future endeavours in life. On obtaining his wish, he instantly joined the party then in opposition; and, with Grattan, Curran, and other distinguished men, declared himself in favour,

1. Of the independence of Ireland, her parliament, and supreme judicature:

2. Of the full and total emancipation of the Catholics :

And, 3. Of the complete excision of the then system of servility and corruption, which had assumed the milder term of influence, and afterwards afforded a just pretext for the Union.

Accordingly, in his capacity of a legislator, Mr. Jones endeavoured to carry into practice those ideas which he had formed and acted on, both while a private gentleman and a barrister, At an early period, and even before the public was prepared for the change, he advocated an extension of the franchises of the Catholics, and was ever a steady and uniform stickler for their admission within the pale of the laws and constitution, He appears afterwards to have been engaged, both as a man

of letters and a counsel, by the committee selected to advance their claims.

Sir Richard Musgrave, who was an uniform enemy to this class of patriots, as is fully exemplified in every page of his "Memoirs of the different Rebellions in Ireland," thus expresses himself with his usual zeal :

“Mr. Jones, a member of parliament, was a sanguine advocate for the Romanists, so early as the year 1792; he accused them afterwards, in the Belfast News-letter, of having withheld a considerable portion of the money which they had stipulated to pay him. *

"Mr. Todd Jones," adds he, soon after, "having injured his fortune in electioneering, was led, by the hope of repairing it, to become the advocate of the Romanists, both in and out of parliament; and I have not a doubt, but that some other members of that assembly were attached to their cause from the same sordid and sinister motives; as they often panegyrised the Roman Catholics for their steady loyalty, and unremitted respect for the laws, when they were in actual rebellion.”

Mr. Jones wrote a pamphlet in the year 1792, entitled, “A letter to the Societies of United Irishmen of Belfast, on the Restoration of the Catholic Rights;" and he gives the following reasons for publishing it:

"In cherishing, from my early years, the august idea of the emancipation of the Catholics from a profligate, mistaken, passionate farrago of statutes of penalty and disqualification, I have frequently inquired into the motives of my own mind, why I should never experience apprehensions upon this subject, in common with many selfish, and some innocent, antagonists of such a glorious restoration to their country; and it may be pardonably objected against me, that, possessing, from

It is not improbable that they had many hired agents in a great assembly, from the intemperate zeal which some gentlemen showed in their cause. It is well known that the Romanists often levied money on every individual of their order; and when some poor people in the province of Munster complained to me of the sums which were extracted from them, I asked them, to what purpose it was to be applied? And many of them informed me, they were told, it was to bribe the

my family's decline, inconsiderable property in Ireland to hazard, I could not be liable to that delicate sense of danger which must come home to the feelings of the great Protestant proprietors; but, granting I have but little, comparatively, at stake, that little is my all."

“He denies that the popish parliament, which sat in Dublin, in the year 1689, passed a bill of attainder against all the protestant landholders in the kingdom; though James II. acknowledged, in his Diary, found in the Scotch College at Paris, that he gave his assent to it with reluctance, and merely to gratify his Irish Roman-Catholic subjects. Harris, also, in his Life of King William, declares, that he found it in the Rolls Office. But all the acts passed by King James's parliament were afterwards burnt by the hands of the common hangman, and Mr. Jones will not allow that it ever passed, and asserts that it was fabricated by Archbishop King, who gives a copy of it." *

Mr. Jones, however, was viewed with a different eye by some of his countrymen, having been praised by one of his contemporaries as the "first protestant senator who brought forward the question of Catholic emancipation."

Mr. Jones became an object of suspicion during the late insurrection in Ireland, in consequence of which he experienced a variety of hardships, This gentleman afterwards applied, by means of petition, in which all his grievances were stated, to the English parliament, for redress; but without effect, as an act of indemnity had already passed.

From this period he courted the shade, and lived in great obscurity, sometimes in Wales, and sometimes in Ireland, avoiding strangers, and chiefly cultivating the acquaintance of friends and relatives. His death was occasioned by a melancholy accident. Having dined, on a Sunday, with his neighbour, Mr. Martin, of Milbroney, he had but just stepped into

"Though I condemn Mr. Jones," adds he, "for hiring out his talents to the Roman Catholics, yet I would not be understood to include him in the strictures which I make on his coadjutors; as I know and esteem him, and believe him to be a gentleman in other respects.". - Note to p. 97.

his carriage, accompanied by Dr. John Bingham, and a young clergyman, to return to Ross-Trevor, when the horses suddenly took fright, and overturned the vehicle. Mr. Jones, on this occasion, received a severe contusion, which was succeeded by a severe hemorrhage from the nostrils. Every remedy which medical skill could suggest was applied in vain, and he died, May 10th, 1818.

The following account of the late Mr. Jones was published many years since, by one of his own countrymen. "He was bred to the profession of the law, though he does not practise it, and has a large fund of constitutional and historical knowledge. His voice is clear and articulate, and his language free and copious, sometimes elevated and spirited.

"His manner is animated; marked by the ardour of truth, and the impassioned earnestness of conviction. His action, consonant to his manner, has animation and fire; with more strength than grace, and more force than eloquence. In argument he is close and condensed."