Well, some time ago this uncle fought a duel in the Roman States with a Frenchman, who shot him dead.

The seconds and the Frenchman (who was unhurt) took to flight in different directions, as it is supposed.

We heard nothing here of the details of the duel till a month after it happened, when one of the French journals published an account of it, taken from the papers left by Monkton's second, who died at Paris of consumption.

These papers stated the manner in which the duel was fought, and how it terminated, but nothing more.

The surviving second and the Frenchman have never been traced from that time to this.