Governor TjTon thereupon directed an officer of the British army to take possession of Judge Morris' house, and use it as long as required ; but ordered him, at the same time, to burn it to the ground as soon as abandoned. This outrage was soon afterwards perpetrated ; and Judge Morris, then advanced in years, was compelled to fly for better security to Claverack in Columbia County.

The present house which is constructed of stone, is finely situated on an eminence and commands a very e.vtensive view of Harlem river and surrounding country in which New York Island forms a beautiful feature.

THE TOWN OF ^\•EST FARMS.

Here are portraits of the Hon. Lewis Morris, fourth proprietor oi Morrivaiiia, great grand-father of the present occupant; and his t'lrst vv-ife, Catharine Staats; and his son the Hon. Richard Morris, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in 1776 ; at the foot of this portrait is su.=;pended the hilt of the official sword that used to be borne by the Provincial Ju'lgos of Admiralty. In one of the parlors of the mansion is to be seen an original portrait of tlie celebrated St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, who was born in his father's castle of Loyola in the year 1491, of a race so noble, that its head was always summoned to do homage to the throne of Spain by a special wTit. He died first General of his order in 1556, and was canonized by Pope Gregor}' XV. in 1622. This picture was formerly in the possession of the late Jacob Lorillard, Esq., father-in-law of the present proprietor, and has been long pronounced an original by Peter Paul Rubens. The head, Hke the figure painted b\- Rubens for the Jesuits at Antwerp, now at Warwick castle in England, is v.-onderfully fine, and quite true to the Spanish t}'pe.