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The chapel is square, simple in its decorations, and fitted up with oak. Here are found the following pictures:-A large and magnificent piece, by Luca Giordano, Samuel slaying the Philistines.The twelve Apostles, in twelve separate works, and Christ; all copied from Guido.-Madona and Child, by Andrea del Sarto; the ease of the child's figure, and the infantine innocence of his face, are strikingly beautiful.-Head of our Saviour crowned with thorns, Guido; exquisite expression of acute suffering endured with resignation, admirably marking the character of Him who was "a man of "sorrows and acquainted with grief.”—St. Jerome. and an Angel, Guercino. The preparation to slay St. Bartholomew; by Espagnoletto; like most of the other efforts of his pencil, bold, expressive, and horribly fine.-Five scripture-pieces on copper; small, but highly finished."

The library is sixty feet by twenty; over the chimney is a figure in wood, large as life, of

The Hon. Thomas Watson Wentworth, second son of Edward second Lord Rockingham. He succeeded to the estate of his uncle William Earl of Strafford, and assumed the name of Wentworth..

In the white bed-chamber is a curious original portrait of Henry the Seventh on wood; a rigidlikeness, but hard outline.

Gulielmus de Nassau, Prince of Orange.-Margaret Wentworth, youngest daughter to the first Earl of Strafford; by Lely.-Sir Christopher Wordsworth; half-length, by Cornelius Janssen.-Henry Vere Earl of Oxford, lord high chamberlain; obiit 1625.-Boys blowing bubbles, and eating oysters, very fine; by Lely.-A large Landscape, by Paul Veronese.-An Holy Family, by Andrea del Sarti. -Henry Prince of Wales, a small half-length, most beautiful.

A small imaginary portrait of our Saviour, three quarters, painted on wood with this inscription: "This present figure is the similitude of our Lord "J. H. S. our Saviour, imprinted on an emerald by "the predecessors of the great Turke, and sent to Pope Innocent the Eighth, for a token to redeem "his brother that was taken prisoner."

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A large Landscape with ruins; Nic. Poussin. Over the door, a Portuguese Courtezan, and an old man paying his court to her by feeding her parrot; Paul Giordano.

Charlotte de la Tremouille Countess of Derby; ætat. 18, 1634. She was wife of James the 7th Earl of Derby; her name will long stand high in the annals of heroism, for her gallant defence of Lathom-House and the isle of Man. It was her

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proud boast to have been the last person in the British dominions who submitted to the Republic. -Her Sister; Etat. 10, A. D. 1634.

Christ taken from the Cross; a fine piece, in which the three women are introduced, and a light diffused over the figures from the lamp. Carracci.

Claude de la Tremouille Duc de Thouars, a peer of France, but more truly honoured as the father of the above-mentioned Countess of Derby. Sigismunda; a fine head.

Thomas Wriothesley fourth Earl of Southampton. He was second son of Shakespeare's celebrated patron, and succeeded to the title on the death of his father, who survived the eldest son. Although steadily attached to Charles I. he never suffered his personal regard for the sovereign to overcome the duty which he owed his country. On the Restoration he was appointed lord-treasurer, which office he retained till his death in 1667, and frequently, though unsuccessfully, endeavoured to reduce the expences of Charles's licentious court; but he was doomed to feel that the giddy monarch, who could value his counsel on other occasions, would not sacrifice his own course of riotous pleasures and extravagance. Half-length, by Lely. James II. when young. Small whole length.-Henry Frederic de Nassau Prince of Orange, (1629,

half-length) grandfather to William III. Obiit 1647.-A drinking party of Peasants, by Ostade.

James Stanley seventh Earl of Derby; halflength, by Cornelius Janssen. The annals of Charles I. furnish innumerable instances of courage, intrepidity, loyalty, and attachment; but no one appears to have served his cause more faithfully than this nobleman, who displayed many proofs of valour during the civil wars, particularly at Wigan, where, with six hundred horse, he withstood a corps of three thousand, commanded by Colonel Lilburne; and after receiving seven shots on his breast-plate, thirteen cuts on his beaver, five wounds on his arms and shoulders, and having two horses killed under him, he effected his escape to Worcester, in which battle he was made prisoner, and executed, in violation of a promise of quarter. This may, perhaps, be attributed to his spirited. and irritating answer returned to Ireton, who offered him his own terms to surrender the isle of Man; and which is preserved in detail by Lord Orford in his Memoirs of Noble Authors.'

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An Earl of Derby, fifty-eight years of age. A Female Spinner; very fine, by Teniers.-Small head of Christ, and another of Mary, both exquisite specimens of Carlo Dolci's characteristic softness.A Dutch Fisherman, by Mieris.

Rembrandt, by himself. He was son of a miller near Leyden, and though highly esteemed as a painter, yet is better known as an engraver; but his works in either branch are highly valuable and rare. The most perfect collection of his etchings was possessed by the late Mr. Dalby of Liverpool, and on his death (experiencing the lot to which all collections are subject) were disposed of by public auction, when fifty-seven guineas were given for a single print. Obiit 1674.

In the white dressing-room is the finest picture in the collection, a sleeping Cupid, by Guido.

Holy Family, by Raphael; tender contour, and fine colouring.

Dr. William Harvey, half-length. He was physician to James I. and his successor, and a great benefactor to the College of Physicians; but his contribution to society at large was infinitely greater, by his discovery of the circulation of the blood, which was justly declared by a contemporary writer to have been preferable to the discovery of the new world. Obiit 1657, Et. 80.

A reputed original half-length portrait of Shakespeare, inscribed, "This portrait belonged to John

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Dryden, esq; and was given to him by Sir "Godfrey Kneller." See Dryden's epistle to Sir Godfrey Kneller, in his Works, vol. ii. The late

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