He had secured about 4000 acres of valuable land to which he occasionally made additions, his circumstances more than equalled his most sanguine expectations, and he felt that, in the enjoyment of health with such prosperity, his situation was as happy 'as. it possibly could be. 'How mysterious," he exclaimed, "are the ways of Providence! How short sighted are we! Some years ago I thought it'a great hardship to be banished into this wilderness and would have imagined myself compleatly happy could I have exchanged it for a place in the delightful city of Philadelphia. Now the best wish we can form for our dearest friends is to have them removed to us.''4

The remainder of Dr Stuart's life seems to have passed in the routine of his duties, interrupted, however, by attacks of illness to which his increase of years and the fatigue attendant on a mission in so,new-a country could not fail to subject him. He

1 Abstract of 1798, p. 57. 2 Abstract for 1796, 53, 54; 1798, 43; 1799, 58. 8 Letter of 21 Oct., 1799. 4 Letter of 26 Nov., 1798.

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departed this life on the 15» Aug. 1811 in the seventy-first year of his age and was buried in Kingston, where he lives (says one of his cotemporaries) in the hearts of his friends.

In personal appearance D: Stuart resembled the other members of his family; he was about six feet four inches in height, and from this circumstance was known among his New-York friends as "the Jittle gentleman." His manners were gentle and conciliatory, and his character such as led him rather to win ' men by kindness and persuasion, than to awe and alarm them by the terrors of authority. His sermons, composed in plain and nervous language, were recommended by the affectionate manner of his delivery, and not unfrequently found a way to the consciences of those who had long been insensible to any real religious convictions.!.