Barclayans

pl. ( Eccl. Hist.) See BEREANS. Bar'clay de Tolly, MICHAEL, PRINCE, a celebrated Ru ian military commander, of Scottish descent, B. in Livonia in 1755. He commenced his military career in the campaigns against the Turks, the Swedes, and the Poles. He was wounded at Eylau, when he was made lieutenant-general. In March, 1808, he surprised the Swedes at Umea, by a march of two days over the ice which covered the Gulf of Bothnia. He was made governor-general of Finland, and in 1809, appointed minister of war. He was author of the plan of operations which was followed with signal advantage by the Ru ian army in the campaign of 1812. After the battle of Bautzen, 26th May, 1813, B. was appointed commander-in-chief of the Pru o-Ru ian army; and under him Wittgenstein commanded the Ru ians; Blücher the Pru ians; and the Grand-Duke Const an tine the Imperial Guard. On the day the allies entered Paris he was created general field-marshal. D. 1818. Barclaysville, in North Carolina, a post-office of Harnett co. Barcok'heba, or BARCOK'ECAS, ("Son of a star,") a famous Jewish impostor, whose real name was SIMEON, and who lived in the 2d century A. D. After the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, the Jews, at different periods, sought to regain their independence; and B. , seeing his countrymen still impatient of the Roman yoke, resolved to attempt their emancipation. With this view he sought to sound the dispositions of his co-religionists of Egypt, Me so pot am i a, Greece, Italy, and Gaul, and sent forth emi aries, who travelled over all the provinces of the Roman empire. When all was ready, B. solemnly announced himself as king and Me iah, and seized by surprise on many fortified places. All who refused to submit to him, particularly the Christians, were put to death. When the great succe which at first attended his enterprise became known, great numbers of Jews, from all parts of the world, hastened to join his standard; and so formidable did this revolt become, that Julius Severus, general of the armies of the Emperor Adrian, and one of the greatest captains of the age, was compelled to act with extreme caution, and to content himself with surprising such detached bodies of the enemy as happened to be off their guard. Soon, however, the superior discipline of the Romans prevailed. The Jewish army, shut up in the fortre of Bethar, succumbed under fatigue and famine; B. perished miserably, and all his followers were ma acred or reduced to slavery. From this period may be dated the entire dispersion of the race of Israel over the face of the earth. This war cost the conquerors much blood. It lasted for 5 years, and did not terminate till the year 136.