The portrait of Mercer there given was painted from his brother, who sat for it, and who greatly resembled him. It was considered a good likeness by those who knew the general. The portrait given below I copied from Peale's picture, in which I have preserved the languid expression of a wounded man, as given him by the artist. On the left is seen a portion of the skirt of Washington's coat, and his chapeau. Many pleasing memories crowd upon the mind of the visitor to this aneient seat of learning, where so large a number of the active young men of the Revolution who lived in the Middle States were educated. [Illustration: 7252] Under the guidance of the learned and patriotic Dr. Witherspoon, who in the pulpit, academic hall, or legislative forum, was the champion of good, it was the nursery of patriots. He was a lineal descendant of John Knox, the great English reformer, and, like that bold ancestor, he never shrunk from the post of danger, if called to it by duty. Like _Yale_ under Daggett, and _Harvard_ under Langdon, the _College of New Jersey_, under Witherspoon, made its influence felt in the council and the field during the war for independence. Of the meetings of Congress at Princeton in 1783, and the Farewell Address of General Washington to the armies [[November 2, 1783]] of the United States, written at Rocky Hill, a a few miles distant, I shall hereafter write. Let us now return to Trenton. As I hoped and anticipated, the storm that came down so furiously, on my return from M'Conkey's Ferry, subsided during the night, and the morning sun came forth, only half hidden by broken clouds. Accompanied by Mr. Smythe, my companion on the previous day when I visited the ferry, I went out early to view and sketch localities of interest about Trenton, all of which are given in preceding pages, except "White Hall," a large stone building, standing on the south side of Front Street. This was used for barracks by the Hessians during their occupancy of Trenton in 1776. [[[The Floral Arch in Honor of Washington.--His Triumphal Journey.--His Reception by the Ladies at Trenton.]]]