There are some family pictures, by Etty, of the Royal Academy of England. There is also an original portrait of Bunyan, formerly in the possession of the Rev. George Whitefield. The library contains the original Italian edition of Piranesi, collected for Napoleon, bearing his initial, and surmounted by the imperial crown. This extraordinary work on ancient and modern Rome consists of forty two volumes royal quarto. Also a copy of Macklin's Bible, the largest ever printed, in six volumes royal

«^ Literally, Nicolas, the son of Martin of the Rose-field. The son of this individual was Nicolas, whose son Johannes was the grandfather of Cornelius, father of Elbert Roosevelt, Esq., of Pelham.

b A native of Savannah, Georgia, and son of Robert Bolton, Esq, a merchant of that place.

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quarto ; a copy of Elliot's Indian Testament, said to be the first work '•' written and published in the present United States," printed at Cambridge, Massachusetts, A.D. 1661, by Samuel Green, the first printer in America. When Elliott had finished this translation, he wrote in his diary -- '-N. B. Prayer, faith and patience can perform wonders." Here is also a valuable cabinet of coins, collected by the Rev. Bryan Hill, rector of Hodnet, Shropshire, England : among the most interesting are those of Alexander the Great, Caesar Augustus, and a series of Roman and ancient English. Among the medals of the Popes is the celebrated one of Adrian the Sixth, upon the reverse of which is the idolatrous inscription, " Gluem creant Adorant" -- whom we create, 2ce adore. There is also a good collection of autographs, the oldest of which is that of Henry VII. The signatures of Elizabeth, with her Council, and of her successor, Queen Mary, are worthy of notice ; also those of Oliver Cromwell and Richard Cromwell, presented by the late Ohver Cromwell. ^ We have also to notice, in this collection, an original of Addison's Spectator, and a letter of Pope's, never before published, addressed to Lord Bathurst.