The Sun.
London, England, 1808-12-31 00:00:00

tl ey fish, the.fisli will foUow what-is thrown over-
teard, prey upon it, and eiegket the ,Iyait Which the '
hsherrneteuse to decoy the 'fish to the hook.
• The writer of this has seee, when file have-ly,';en
taught in great
,plenty,. that :in ebOut three: days,
(during the summer), of those which lie under tee
stage; towards. the bottom,. on the deck, nothing
has been lett .but the bone, all the rest as completely
dissolved as if quick-lime had been threwn on it.—
When the_ vessel ,has got a sufficiency, she comes.
into her port to get rid of her burden. -The fish
are thrown into what is, called a rata's-horn (a:square
wooden thing, perforated with holes, to admit the'
water to pass to and from), when the fish are tune.-
bled abort and well washed, afterwards thrown up
on stage or wharf, apd laid, out again by men 'em-
ployed on the fishtry.ne the shore.. . .
, After the fish has- lain -soine little. time ten the
stage, it is taken on hand-harrows, and carried on
the flakes, places erected
.abOut nine `feet above the
.ground; scres:to admit. a current of, air to pass I.l,l;der,
and covered ever with fir-boughs andolieerbratiches
of .trees, on which it is placed to dry, day afieedaye
,until it lecomeg sufficienely cpredaudeoltd, se as to
keep for, a considerable period of time. -,Every.inght,
duking its process, it, isebrought- into round piles,
coveted over with bircherin,ds, with' weights on it,
to keep the wet.and damps our.. It, is curious to see
how extremelye busy the people are when it is iskely
. to rain, or on a shower coming op, to gather: tie the
fish, as the.rain,very meteriallyinjuies , •:
The vessels generally hut, thiee days in- the
harbour, before -they, go. out :again op the heeks to
prosecute their voyage.- 'They seeike about four,
:some five, trips for cargoes during -the season, which
useally closes abut the lie ler end , September.
.The equinoxial gales frequently put a stop to it, by
causing the loss of cables and antthors, and otherwise
disabling of the vessels, as the see runs in thosegeles
tremendously jfigh, and many vessels have been,
know e to founder at their anchors. at this closieg
season of the year. -
,
The poor fellows, in some vessels, fishelrom four
o'clock in the morning, till eight at night, and then-
keep watch regularly afterwards ; so that when flak:
are Plestty, they ere,almpste wore out, for those who
,keep watch, whilst the- other part sleep the little
time. they have to ,gebelow,- fish during the night.
In other vessels, where , the Captain
.is a huniaue
equatilhe will let the lisher4lete here :their-prooer rest
by' niget, and fish: by day, excepting a small Wettelee,
that ; must be kept up., to see whether. the vessel
drives, by the anchor giving way.
On Sunday (a- day /that otight- to be devoted to
Pious exercises and 'religion), the men are employed
in. regulating and ffi:ing their fishing 'tackle tiering'
the murnieg; and in the atternoungo: to their cahins,,:.l
or else catclesquids, a squelid kindjolefish,‘t~hi bit
during the latter pcut of ,the fishing voyage, is is etf'►i
to catch the cod with:

The. diet which these lardy men have, is nearly 1-,
'the same every day (during the time they are on 1:
the fishery), namely,- what is caked
tmreakhist,- dinner and supper : this is o.. 1(.;
following manner ; a fish, just caught, is, hung up;
and time tins stripped otf, it is skinned;: and, then,
cnt up in
,laroe'e :pieces,: and put .into A kettle, under
.which is laid some rashers of salt pork or beef, and
some broken pieces :of biscuit, then the whole is
just covered with Water,- and boiled about ten mi-
nutes, with some.dry herbs, it they have any, and a
little thickening. This mess nay .disgust • many
people at the thought or ti, tnit the !A :inc. this,-ties3
assure them, that it is very palatable,,:audextremely
nutritious, and thernen employed in the fishery get
very tat upon it.
bundays they are allowed some b,..ef and pudding,
-but the beef IS generally Irish, excessively salt,and
when boiled, dry and hard, and scarcely any hit to
it. In some vessels they ate allowed this on ThorS-
.
days. . . .
There is what is called the shore fishery.; thiS is
carried on by large open boats, called shallops, Which
gO out. and return every day nearly, and fish Very
near the shores.; the:fish which these boatS take are
small in size; %veil cured, and are, in general, the
best ; though time bank-fish are by. much the largest,
yet they are not so much esteemed as whit is caught
close to Oie shores.

Those vessels which go to 'the land early in the
year, -have to make their 'way throughsislands of ice,:
and sometimes are in great danger, through the
great beds of ice which float along that iron-bound
•
shore to the south Ward.

The island, on approaching it, has a rotigh-'ap-
pearatice, rugged • and mountainous, at the same,
time covered with -thick wood; and scarcely .a
to be seen all along the shore.

Yesterday .a great crowd of people gat hered'ro.und
the house of a Mr. Hunt, a unman, in Chandos-*
street, Covent-garden, on the suppoitiop that a girl,
who had been his servant,
.had lost her life through
beating and starvation, as was very universally cir-
culated 'through the crowd: In the evening, the
popular indignation rose to such .a height, that seve-
ral- panes of glass were broken in the house by the
mob. • Police Officers were called in,-and the crowd
Was dispersed. An Inquest was, then .heldat the
Crown and Thistle, in the same street, before AN
THONY GELL, Esq. Coronerfor Westminster. • The
substance of the evidence was, that Ann Fatie, the
deceased, was a girl about 15 years. of age, and had
been a "pauper in the workhouse at-Lynn, in Nor-.
folk, iri consequence of her having been the orphan
child of poor parents. She was taken a short time
back into the service of Mr. H. aS an apprentice.
She was thought by her MistresS lo be an untoward
girl; and at different times received, correction.. From
what cause it did not appear-; but she fell into a dan-.
gerous state of ill-health, Dr. Merriman., of the
Western Dispensary, prescribed tot: her at different
times but she was always in the company of Ml-1!"
H. A relation frequently visited-beribut always
the presence of Mrs. H. and nothing ,particular came'
out. A neighbour had frequently heard the girl cry
Out, and there were the mark:: of blowt upon (lac-
rent parts of her person. But Dr.
,Merrimac. was, of
opinion.that there. was not any,appearance whatever
of inityY,,stleh,as, was Sufficient to have Occiviiuueo,
the death of ,the patient, either internally or
natty ; and the deceased having been tOr soMt
ill, the Verdict vga—Died a Liural &4fll-: .
The post-boy who-rode the Mail 11.441 -Market
Raisin to Castor, was found starved to Ll'LL,iih by the
cold, on the- road, on Saturday week.