The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-05 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY, FEP,RUARY 5, HIE'.

The public were gratified, last flint, in hearin:.
by the tiring of the Park and Tower guns, that some
good ne.4 s 11dd at raved ; and we have row the plel4
sure of presenting ta our readers the particulesof

the pleasing intelltAice, published in an Extraor4
din i!y Gazette this morning. The capture of
Cio-
dad Rodrigo adds another trophy to those which
Loan WELLINGTON has aevired, and is of great
itul:ortance in the contest which the Allied. Aunies
arc carrying On against thwenemy of all mankind.—
GottnoN, Aid-de-aim') to his Lordship,
arrived yesterday evening. with the (Lspatche•; and.
Lord LIVER&OOL immediately sent a letter to ilia
LORD MAYOR, apprizing hill) of the gratifying infor-.
mation oi this new triumph of British heroism,
under a Commander who unites every quality of
an accomplished General..

French Papers, and two Anholt Mails, arrived
yesterday, as well ?.s lettets.and papers from Ham-
Ourgh. It does nut app ar, iu the accounts from
Vienna, which reach to the 8:11 instant, that Russia

acid urkey have really settled into peace, as so otica
and so coutidently report, ti.

There is no truth in the report that Sir JOSE'S
going to America with a squadron.

The Opposition scribes, who are always arnuing
themselves with rumours of ministetial
have recently been sereading a report that the Mar.!.
quis WELLESLEY had been endeavouring to place
himself at the head of the Cabinet, and to procure
a seat in it for Mr. CANNING. The Speech of the
Matquis, on Friday last, on the Catholic question,
has induced the gentlemen alluded to, to circulate
this report with still greater confidence. As to Mr.
CANNING, there can be 1 the doubt that, if he were
anxious for office, his abilities would sufficiently re-
commend themselves ; and as to the opinions which
the Marquis expressed on the occasion alluded to,.
they are such as he has always m Lintamed on the
same subject, and all his doubts related to the period
most proper for discussion. The 0, po,ition writers
have, therefore, as little foundation for this last at
to excite a general belief of ministerial dif-
ferences and expeeted changes, as for most of those
with which they have fur some time been in ihe
habit of gratifying their readers.

The last advices from the Meditertanean state;
that one of the first of Lord BENTINCICS acts, on
his arrival in Sicily, was to ask and obtain permis-
sion from the Government to take under his imme-
diate command the whole of the Sicilian fiotilla,
consisting of upwards of fifty sal of vessels.

The first Establishment of State Lotteries was in
1694. Though more than a cehluty hath since
claps,* no Constructor of any Lottery Plan Wai
able, -untie present moment, to head a Schema
of only 8,000 Tickets with 20.,0001. Prizes, and
other.censiderable CApilnls. The 1-thhof this Mouth
will bring -the unexampled fact to issue. •
Mrs. SCOTT WAItING, whose demh t4e mentk,ned
yesterday, was the Miss HUGHES who, though in-
heriting a handsome fortune, betook herself fot some
years to the stage in .Irtland.i of which country she
was a native. •

BIRTM.
On Thursday last, at Northaw Cottage, Lady La Call, c;
a Daughter.

MARRIAD.

Yesterday, at Leyton, in Essex lit;lliatn Cotton, Esq.
to Sarah, the only daughter of Thomas Lane, I.lsil. of Ley—,
ton Grange.

The same day, at St. Martin's in the'Fields, Captain F.
Newcomb;, R. N. to Miss Cricht,,n, of Craven.s.tr‘..et,
daughter of the late W. Cricnton, Esq. . .