A correspondent requests room for the following tribute to Colonel
Jones, whose death is recorded in the week's obituary.
" Leslie Grove Jones was well known front the prominent part he took in public affairs, and particularly as the writer of the letters in the Times, signed Radical,' which were read with so much interest and instruction by the many, and so much wrath and disquiet by the few. The earlier history of Leslie Grove Jones is associated with that of the foremost mcii of his day, in the mwt open assertion of the great principles of civil and religious freedom. Front Li., V .ry boyhood he was engag..11in stile rgles against oppression; and before he we3 siNtA,n, while a Midsliipmsn nn homnl. the Revolution:tire, he got cen-
sured for interference on behalf of a poor Negro cook, on whom theCuptain had im■Iliet l time lash for some petty offence. of an exciteuble and enthusiastic temperant it, in which firmne-s, singleness, and sincerity of purpose were inti-
mately idemided, no man tvitz ntore ardent lover ortruth, or a bolder ad- vocate of liberty. Strong in Ids in tiled, warm in his affections, his attachments were not only devoted, they ,ontetimes heroic. Ile served and defended many a fri,md. whom, but 5a• Lim, the world would have abandoned ; and his benevolence was often of that high character which demands the noblest moral courage for its display. 11.menth an external rougionss of manners, not always intelligible to those who imperfectly knew him, there lay an amiable, simple, and philanthropic natur2, which exhibited itself in conntless deeds of kindness and generosity. He was born at Bradtbrd, "Wilts, on the 4th of June, 1779. His father had been an officer in the Navy, and died Inspector of the Board of Works, in 1807. The Colonel was twice married—first, to the daughter of Mr. W. Miler, Burns's friend and patron ; and, secondly, to Mrs. Dashwood, the grenddauglaer of Bishop Shipley. Ile has left behind
him two soils. B."
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