The Sun.
London, England, 1810-05-08 00:00:00

Arrived his Majesty's ship Hardy from a croize.

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We-have received, by a private ship, a lett* °1
which the following is an extract :
" CORUNNA, APRIL I.—Gijon and Oviedo are -
again in the hands. of the enemy, who is o;er-run'
ning the province of Asturias. The • French ate
also continuing the siege of Astorga, but with very
few troops.—The details from.the interior are fa'
vourable,"
of
Some dayisince„ as a boy, ten years of age, son -
Mr. Whitehurst,.at Chisk, was' playing with a Or)
in a room which a female servant was scowering, tb°
girl; not thinking the piece to be loaded, said, " tiff
at me." The boy did so, and killed her in an instant'
Some of the -Life Guardsmen, While quietly walk'
ing in the fields yesterday, at the bottom of Bake'
street., were insulted ,by a mob, encouraged,
doubt, by those miscreant orators, who are doing
• every thing in their power to incense the peol".
against that force through whose assis.ance
the Magistrates were lately enabled to frustralci
the diabolical objeEls of Sir,FRANCIS BURDETT a°
his trait°, ous associates.
BAD DOLLARS considerable number of per"
.sons, principally females, are busily enraged in 1-3t-
tertug counterfeit dollars. They are retuarkaid
well executed,
.bat are'easily deteiled by I,veighnigei
'being full three penny-weights lighter than go°
.ones.
or
A very rare and curious fish, called the Opao,
King Fish was found on Sunday, 'cast ow the bcoc
at Mundesley, Norfolk. It is that genus, whici`
Linnaeus distinguishes by
.the name of CllOO-oElo°'
and is said to be very common on the ( oast of 64-u;
nee. Pennant, in his British Zoology. says, ti)tr
there have been 'only five instances of this.fish ben':
in,our seas; four were caught in the North, and
fifth at Brixham; Devonshire, in 1792.
Ihttre were Four Prizes of Twenty Tkoll'-` e
.Pounds each in the Last Lottery, •of Which
ARDSON, 'GOODLUCK, and Co. sold Two. ,
The ROmans paid particular attention to the Q°".:
'dens of Fortune, and had no less than eight Tett);
pies erected to her honour in their city. Tuilu
Hostilius was the first who built her a Temple
and from that circumttance, 'its easily, known wiled°
her worship was first introduced amongst
Romans. In England, although all ranks worsl4
.her, we know of no Temple ere6led to her h000t;',I
unless, indeed, it be Cooper's Hall. In that ran'e
place she will be-particularly worshipped on the_ Atli'
of Next Month :—the Lottery will be all drawn °n
aiit day, aryl the ,gilts of the fair Goddess diOri;
buted in profusion. Even the Sixteenth of it Ticket
in 4y gain 6000 i. ! ! !

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GAAVEIIND, AY 6.
Arrived,--the Earl Percy,S
Story, M
and the Harvey, •T'l°'
Jlsr
Patstone, for Montserrat: . fa'
Sailed—the Pax, Harper, and Cornwall, Shawl, far ,r,
maica; Friendship, Anderson, for Demerara ; ,Sclleirtot
How, for St. Domingo; and the lane and Mary, Vi. 110;,
Q„;ebec. ,