He was intimate with General and Governor Clinton who used to visit him at his grocery and sit and talk with him! Captain Stuart went once to Governor Clinton's to introduce some of his Scottish friends just over. Governor Clinton among other refreshments produced some whiskey [page break] 1009 137 [margin: LABELS] or brandy, which he poured out and was about to add some water when Stuart inter- -fered, saying, "These, Governor, we all thorough going men; they like purity in all things, and do nothing by halves. Spirits they drink by itself, and water by itself. They and their friends were as great rebels in 1745 and you were in 1776." A Presbyterian friend named Mc- -Intosh once persuaded him to attend the Wall Street Church for the purpose of hearing old Dr. Rogers. In the course of his sermon the Reverend preacher attack- -ed the Roman Catholics with great severity severity. Stuart was a rigid Roman Catholic, but stood it in silence for some time. At last Dr. Rogers made some observations which were satirical and cutting to the last degree. On hearing his church assailed so bitterly Stuart at length lost patience and starting from [page break] 138 1010 [margin: LABELS] his seat exclaimed aloud aloud to Mc- -Intosh in Gaelic: "The Devil take the fellow! - Do you hear what he says?" When the Squatters rose against Robinson in Fredericksburgh, a few years before the Revolutionary war, they were led by an Irishman named Prendergast. British troops were sent from New York who put Robinson in possession. - Old Mr. Grey and some others had bought what they thought good and refused to com- -promise with Robinson."