JOSHUA, professor of the Greek language at Cambridge, in the beginning of the 18th century. He was chosen queen's professor of Greek in 1695, a language he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility. His first publication was a whimsical tract, entitled, Gerania, or a New Discovery of the little sort of people called Pygmies. After that appeared his Life of Edward III., in which he introduces his hero making long and elaborate speeches.—In the year 1700, when he published many of his works, Mrs Mason, of Hemmingford, in Huntingdonshire, a widow lady of between 40 and 50, with a jointure of 200l. per annum, who had been for some time a great admirer of him, came to Cambridge, and desired leave to settle 100l. a-year upon him after her death; which he politely refused, unless she would likewise condescend to make him happy with her person, which was not very engaging. The lady was too obliging to refuse anything to Joshua, for whom she said, "the sun flood still;" and they were accordingly married. Mr Barnes wrote several other books besides those above mentioned, particularly, Sacred Poems; The Life of Oliver Cromwell, the Tyrant; several dramatic pieces; a poetical Paraphrase on the History of Esther, in Greek verse, with a Latin translation, &c.: and he published editions of Euripides, Anacreon, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, with notes and a Latin translation. He wrote with greater ease in Greek than even in English, and yet is generally allowed not to have understood the delicacies of that language. He was of such a humane disposition, and so unacquainted with the world, that he gave his only coat to a vagrant begging at his door. This excellent man died on the 3d of August 1712, in the 58th year of his age.

BARNEVELDT, JOHN D'OLDEN, the celebrated Dutch Barneveldt Dutch statesman, and one of the founders of the civil liberty of Holland. His patriotic zeal inducing him to limit the authority of Maurice prince of Orange the second stadtholder of Holland, the partizans of that prince falselly accused him of a design to deliver his country into the hands of the Spanish monarch. On this absurd charge he was tried by 26 commissaries deputed from the seven provinces, condemned, and beheaded in 1619. His sons William and Réné, with a view of revenging their father's death, formed a conspiracy against the stadtholder, which was discovered. William fled; but Réné was taken and condemned to die; which fatal circumstance has immortalized the memory of his mother, of whom the following anecdote is recorded. She solicited a pardon for Réné; upon which Maurice expelled his surrifle that the thould do that for her son which she had refused for her husband. To this remark, she replied with indignation, "I would not ask a pardon for my husband, because he was innocent. I solicit it for my son, because he is guilty."