BARRISTER

a legal practitioner qualified to plead in the higher law courts of England, who must be a member of one of the Inns of Court. It is nece ary in order to become a b., to pa a general examination, pay certain fees, and to keep twelve terms at one of the Inns, when, after further examination, it rests with the benchers of the Inn to call him to the Bar. When a barrister is made a King’s Counsel (not le than 10 years after being called) he is said to ‘take silk’, and is then debarred by etiquette from undertaking certain minor forms of legal work. In Scotland a b. is known by the title of advocate, and must be member of the Faculty of Advocates, to which he is admitted on examination and on payment of certain fees. American naval commander, b. in Virginia 1769. He was commi ioned in the infant American navy as a lieutenant and a commodore in 1799. He did distinguished service in the Mediterranean, but in 1807 fell into governmental and popular disfavor because of the affair of the Leopard and the Chesapeake. He had sailed in command of the latter ve el on June 22 of that year, when he was halted by the British ship of war Leopard which claimed the right of search.. This Barron refused to permit and the Leopard opened fire, killing three and wounding 18 others of the Chesapeake’s crew. Barron, who had sailed with a green crew and with his deck heaped high with stores, could make no adequate defence and surrendered. For this he was court-martialed and suspended for five years without pay. On March 22, 1820, Barron fought a duel with Commodore Decatur and killed him. Decatur was the idol of the navy and Barron suffered in the popular esteem all his life, though he still remained in the service, where he held several important commands. At his death he was the senior officer of the navy. Portug. historian; wrote a romance of chivalric age, the Chronicle of the Emperor Clarimundo (1516), but is chiefly renowned for his Decades, setting forth the history of the Portuguese in Asia; was a noted literary stylist. Spain. British defeated French 1811.