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that about five o’clock on Satur- 
day morning last, the house was 
in a complete blaze, which burn- 
ed so rapidly that the rest of the 
family had scarcely time to escape 
with thei lives; some carried a 
part of their clothes into the street 
and dressed, while others dressed 
in the neighbours’ houses. The 
deceased used to sleep alone in an 
upper reom at the back of the 
house; and from the rapidity 
with which the fire burned, it 
was impossible to give him any 
assistance, or acquaint him of 
his danger, for it is supposed a 
part of the front was down before 
the fire communicated to his 
room; the deceased had been 
missing from that time until 
about 11 o’clock on Monday morn- 
ing, when his head and legs were 
discovered by four men, who were 
employed in clearing the rubbish 
out of the cellar, completely burn- 
ed to a cinder; his remains were 
put into a shell, and carried to 
the Coach and Horses for the in- 
spection of the jury. Verdict.— 
Found burnt to death. 
Foreign Commerce.—Since the 
restoration of the independence 
of Holland, the commerce of 
Rotterdam has wonderfully re- 
vived. From November 1813, to 
December 1814, there entered 
the Maese, besides coasters, 1,284 
large ships, and sailed 1,308. In 
1780 there entered the same river 
1,612 ships; in 1793, 1,963 ships; 
and in 1808 only 63: after that 
period, a vessel only entered now 
and then under licence. The 
trade of Lubeck, which after the 
events of 1806, was totally stag- 
nant, has also fast recovered. In 
the last year 1,043 ships entered 
that port, and 943 left it. 
FEBRUARY. 
DUEL BETWEEN MR. 0 CONNELL, 
AND MR. D’ESTERRE. 
- The following account is from 
the Freeman’s Journal of the 2nd 
of February :— 
“A difference was adjusted 
yesterday at Bishop’s Court, 
county of Kildare, which had agi- 
tated this city for several days. 
. “ At the meeting at Capel- 
street, on the Saturday previous 
to the late Aggregate Assembly, 
Mr. O’Connell attended, and in 
illustrating some matter which 
he was anxious to enforce, he al- 
luded in a contemptuous manner 
to the Corporation of. Dublin.— 
‘The beggarly Corporation of 
Dublin was, it seems, one of the 
epithets of scorn used in reproba- 
tion of this act. Mr. J.N. D’ 
Esterre is a member of the Cor- 
poration, and having seen this 
phrase, he addressed a letter on 
the 25th (the day after the aggre- 
gate Meeting) to Mr. Q’Connell, 
requiring to know whether he 
was fairly reported. On the day 
after, Mr. O’C. sent an answer, 
“in which he said that he would 
not avow nor disavow what had 
been reported in’ the newspapers ; 
but he added, that if Mr. D’Es- 
terre wrote to him to know his 
opinion of the Common Council 
of Dublin as a body, he could 
easily satisfy him, by saying, that 
no expression which language 
could furnish was sufficient to 
convey thesentiments of contempt 
he had for that body. Mr. O’C. 
besides requested that Mr. D’Es- 
terre should consider his answer 
as forming the close of the epis- 
tolary correspondence on this 
