Star.
London, England, 1829-06-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DISSADFUL FIRS AND LOSS OF LIVES.

It is spin our most painful duty to record another
destructive fire. Wednesday night the out offices of a
tetpectable and highly worthy man. Jame. Fortune.of
Chutchtown (Caine), were totally consumed. Monday
the unfortunate man had given up his dwelling boase
to bathers, and he and his brother's son, a fine child of
eleven or twelve years old, slept in a place fitted for the
purpose in one of his oat offices. On the night mo-
tioned, about eleven o'clock, be was roused from his
rest by fire falling on his face. In alarm, he started sp
and called on the boy to follow him; he did so for
some distance; but whether the loft fell, or that the
poor child was bewildered by the fright or suffocated
by the smoke, cannot now be known—be never came
forth. Fortune, in his distraction—and be is a man who
has long laboured under severe bodily infirmity—bad
not pretence of mind to observe whether the child war
safe. His sister—who, like himself, was unmarried—
when roused from her bed, which was is the dwelling.
house. seeing her brother safe, and not observing ber
phew. rushed with frantic desperation, and impelled by
as affection equal to maternal, into the blazing home.
She sought him in the bed—be had left it. All arose&
11 above and below her was on fire, still she continued
to search for him. It was in vain ; add when she came
forth, the unhappy martyr to her humane affections war
a burning mass. Clothes she had none; yet she came
forth actually burning, and lived for the space of tws
hours after, when the cold and desirable hand of death
relieved her from the burning torture she must have
suffered. Fortune's brother, who lives in a part of the
country ten or twelve miles from the scene of this me-
lancholy catastrophe, came down in the course of the
day afterwards ; and horrible was the sight presented
to him. His sister dead—all over burned—his beloved
child, his eldest bt.y. a mutilated half cinder like throb
for the destructive element had separated the head free
the body, and the feet were totally consumed. There is
no probable cause known how the conflagration or.
carted. Some believe it mutt bare been by a cat lyiog
on or very near the fire, whilst others think it was frost
lightning. By this dreadful visitation, however it ori-
ginated. poor Fortune has lost the finite of a long and
honestly industrious life. All his outnifices, his farm.
ing utensils, his corn, his clothing, and the greater past
of his household furniture, which had been moved from
the dwelling house when the bathers went to him, and
among the rest his desk, in which his accounts and ma
ney were, are all gone. He is left nearly destitute, to
witness the desolation be is reduced to, and to follow.
with a feeble frame, the half consumed remains of
%Vase he loved tepderly to the silent gram—Wes/Id
Everting Post.

BIRTHS.
At his home in Lower Berkelepetreet, 14 Lady et Lew
Colonel Lindsay, of' a daughter.
At Hone Park, Coldstream, the Lady of Captain BL`Tatw
Briwielshire U u d., of a daughter.
At Haynie, Ross-shire, the Lady of William Mackenzie, 11.0.
Hooomsbk Last India Company's M. 3. of a son. '

MARRIED.
Oa the 4th inst. at the Abbey Church, Great Mahan by dr
Rev. Card, Wlillant ossodlw, Km. R.N. of the Lodi,. Ire
cesterabirs, to Lout's, daughter of Jobs Keeled. Re+ of
Donee, in the cosuty of Semorest.
At St. Slurs Monk Carlisle. Capt. Cheeks C. BA,
Honourable East India Company% service, to Henrietta, MO
daughter of John Birch, Eq.
At Exeter, Capt. J. L. Helm, of the Royal neon, to Set
daughter of J. Hart. Esq. of Win Court Home, Kxeter.
At Caatlecratg, Sir David Kinlocb, of Giluireeisn bet
Eleanor HyDdford, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Gibes C.
miebael of Skirling, Bart.
At Edinburgh, the Rev. William Measles, Keir, to AA
daughter of tie late Jan =sr, Eq. cos of the Depute Clutlf
Session.
At Charlton, Kant. Capt. Crawford, Royal ArtMery,to BMW
Bennett, yoingest daughter of the late Jame dell, Eq. of rigi
log House, Sussex.
At Trinity Church, Mary.la-boons, James Carnegie, )ice irj
Bengal Civil Service, to Charlotte Am; diest daughter' •
Benjamin Efirarastern, Req. of Perthni.pleae_._.__..,„...

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