JONES. Captain Felix Jones entered the Indian navy in 1828, and for the succeeding quarter of a century was uninterruptedly em ployed in almost every survey of importance on which the officers of his service were engaged. Though a mere boy of seventeen when he com menced work in the Red Sea survey, in the Palinurus, under Commander Moresby, his talents found ample recognition, and the draughting of the northern portion of the Red Sea was entrusted to him, the southern portion being by Capt. Dugald Campbell. On the completion of the survey of the Red Sea, which occupied between 1829-34, Felix Jones was engaged in the survey of the Maldive Islands, again under Capt. Moresby, and drew the original charts, the execution of which was so beautiful that they were submitted for the inspection of the Queen. In 1837 wo find him engaged in the Gulf of Manaar and coast of Ceylon on the same laborious duty. Lieut. Jones commanded the steamer Nitoeris in the Euphrates Expedition from May 6, 1840 ; performed the ascent of the Euphrates to Bales, a distance of 1130 miles, in twenty days, in conjunction with three other steamers, commanded by Licuts. Campbell, Grounds, and M. Lynch ; and crossed the Syrian Desert to Beirout, where he com municated with the British fleet, then engaged in operations against Muhammad Ali, and connected the Euphrates and Mediterranean by chronometric measurements for longitude. He then brought the Nitocris down to the Gulf, but remained in Mesopotamia surveying the country under the late Lieut. Blosse Lynch, I.N., until 1846. In the following year, on his being appointed Surveyor-General of Mesopotamia, he returned thither from Bombay, having completed a map of the countries between the Mediterranean, Kurd. istan, Persia, and the Gulf. The journals of the Royal and Bombay Geographical Societies are enriched with many of his memoirs and maps, and others were published by Government. After twenty-five years' continuous service, he proceeded to England on sick leave, and returned by Asia Minor and Constantinople, bringing with him a map, in three sheets, of Babylonia, which was lost in the India Office. The political relations with Persia assuming a threatening aspect, he re turned hastily to Baghdad, and on March 1,1855, was appointed Officiating Political Agent and Consul-General in Turkish-Arabia, and in the following October succeeded Capt. (now General Sir Arnold) Kemball as Political Resident at Bushir. In the capacity of Chief Political Officer to the Persian Expedition he received the repeated thanks of Sir James Outram, who recommended him for honours, which, however, he never re ceived. Again, during the Indian mutiny, he rendered service to his country by keeping in check the disposition of Persia and the warlike Arab maritime tribes to intrigue against British suprem acy, and he received the repeated thanks of the Indian and Home Governments. In February
1863, Capt. Felix Jones completed his magnificent map .of Assyria, which occupied the declining years of his life, and then died. He wrote a Memoir on the Province of Baghdad.
Sir Harford Jones, Baronet, a civil servant of the East India Company, who was sent by Great Britain on an embassy to the court of Persia, in which he was eminently successful. He left Bombay on the 12th September 1808, and reached Bushir on the 14th October. At Teheran, when the treaty was to be signed, the aged wazir, Mirza Shaffi, accused him of an attempt to cheat him, ou which Jones pushed him against the wall, kicked over the candles on the floor, left the room in darkness, and rode home. The treaty was signed 12th March 1809. He wrote an account of the mission to Persia in 1807-11.
Sir William Jones, a judge of the High Court of Justice at Calcutta in the latter part of the 18th century, a learned orientalist, and voluminous writer. Many of his discourses and memoirs appeared in the first to the fourth volumes of the Asiatic Researches. The principal of these were,—A Preliminary Discourse; on Asiatic Ortho graphy ; on the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India ; on the Sources of the Nile ; Second Anniversary Discourse ; Third ditto ; on the Arabs ; on the Tartars ; on the Persians ; Remarks on Johanna Island ; on Hindu Chronology ; on the Indian Game of Chess ; on the Second Classical Book of the Chinese, ii. p. 198 ; on the Antiquity of the Indian Zodiac ; on the Cure of Snake-Bites ; Design of a Treatise on Plants ; on the Chinese ; Supplement to Indian Chronology ; on the Spike nard; on the Borderers,Mountaineers,and Islanders of Asia ; Translation of Grant of Landin Carnata ; on the Musical Modes of the Hindus ; on the Mystical Poetry of the Persians and Hindus, As. Res. iii. p. 165 ; on the Lunar Year of the Hindus ; on the Origin of Families of Nations ; on Asiatic History ; on the Loris or Lemur ; on the Philo sophy of the Asiatics, As. Res. iv. p. 164 ; a Catalogue of Indian Plants ; Remarks on Dr. Hunter's Astronomical Observations made on Journey to Ujjain ; Remarks on Playfair's Ques tions on Astronomy of Hindus. On his tomb was engraved the following :— Here was deposited The mortal Part of a Man who feared God but not Death, and maintained independence But sought no Riches ; who thought None below him but the base and unjust, None above him but the wise and virtuous.'