THE 
MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
No. 359.] OCTOBER 1 , 1821. [3ofVol. 52. 
BUNYAN’S NATIVE HOUSE, AT ELSTOW. 
The justly celebrated Author of “ Pilgrim’s Progress,” a work which ranks as a 
Theological Classic, was born at Elstow, near Bedford, in the Cottage, represented 
above, in 1628. His father, in this humble dwelling, followed the employment of a 
Tinker, but gave his son such education as qualified him for Pastor of a Baptist congre¬ 
gation at Bedford, in the performance of which duty, he was convicted of holding an 
unlawful conventicle, and to the eternal disgrace of the government and ministers of 
the profligate and infamous Charles the Second, was imprisoned twelve years and a 
half in Bedford Gaol, where he wrote his “ Pilgrim’s Progress,” and many other 
works. We are ip possession of a drawing of the Gaol-Yard, as it then stood, and 
propose, on another occasion, to introduce it to our readers. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of the PRIVATE CONFER¬ 
ENCE o/ ALEXANDER, EMPEROR of 
Russia, with three Quakers, in the 
Summer of 1814, when the Emperor 
and the King of Prussia were in 
London. 
Extract of a letter, dated 21st of the 
7th month, 1814, from J. Wilkinson, 
one of the three who were admitted 
to an audience with the truly Chris¬ 
tian Emperor. 
A FTER J. Wilkinson has in his 
letter given an account of the un¬ 
successful endeavours of the deputation 
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of Friends to obtain ail interview with 
the King of Prussia, he says—Very 
different, indeed, from this, what passed 
with the Emperor of Russia, who, be¬ 
fore the address of the Quakers was 
presented to him, went to the meeting 
at Westminster on a first day morning, 
(19tli of the6th month) taking with him 
his sister, the Duchess of Oldenburgh, 
his ambassador, the Count of Lieven, 
and two young princes—one, I believe, 
was his nephew, Prince Oldenburgh, 
(not the Duchess’s son), the other’s 
title I have forgot. Both the Emperor 
and his sister conducted themselves 
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