In that mansion General Schuyler and his family dispensed a princely hospitality for almost Ibrty years. Every stranger of distinction passing between New York and Canada, public functionaries of the province and state visiting Albany, and resident friends and relatives, always found a hearty welcome to bed and board under its roof. And when the British army had surrendered to the victorious republicans at Saratoga, in " the autumn of 1777, Sir John Burgoyne, the accomplished commander of the

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royal troops, and many of his fellow-captives, were treated as friendly guests at the general's table. To this circumstance we have already alluded.

"We were received by the good General Schuyler, his wife and daughters," says the Baroness Eeidesel, "not as enemies, but as kind friends ; and they treated us with the most marked attention and politeness, as they did General Eurgoyne, who had caused General

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Schuyler's beautifully-finished house to be burned. In fact, they behaved like persons of exalted minds, who determined to bury all I'ccollections of their own injuries in the contemplation of our misfortunes. General Burgoyne was struck with General Schuyler's generosity, and said to him,

* You show me great kindness, though I have done you much injury.'

* That was the fate of war,' replied the brave man, ' let us say no more about it.'"

"The British commander was well received by Mrs. Schuyler," says the Marquis De Chastellux, in his "Travels in America," " and lodged in the best apartment in the house. An excellent supper was served him