The Sun.
London, England, 1810-06-20 00:00:00

AMERICA. '

We received American Papers to the ,15th
this day. The folloWing are their chief contents :
" NEW YORK, MAY 15.—Washington letters
confirm the report of trouble in the National Ca-
'binet. The PRESIDENT and Mr. SMITH live jarred,
and the latter has left Washington. It .is said Mr.
JACKSON will be invited to return to Washington,
and resume negociation ! What a mutable world we
live in. Who will believe in' the cessation of miry-,
acles when it is round that President MADISON has
become a JACKSONITR.

" General NIOREAU gave a very splendid ball at his
house in Pearl-street, New-York, last Monday even-
ing. Among the ladies and gentlemen of distinc-
tion, present, were Mr. JACKSON, (the British Ex-
Minister) and his lady."'

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. PINKNEY TO THE
SECRETARY OF STATE, DATED LONDON, FEB. 28.

" I have received from Gen. ARMSTRONG a letter
and have, in consequence, made a written inquiry to
Lord WELLESLEY (with whom I had before Commu,-
cated personally on the subjeat) as to the inexist-
ence of the blockades to which it alludes. lam not
without hopes that the reply to my inquiry will amount
to a declaration (satisfying in substance the condition
mentioned in General ARMSTRONG'S letter), that
these blockades are not in force ; and if ir should, I
will send immediately to General ARMSTRONG. I
have prepared an official letter to you on this bead,
which, .with such additions as circumstances may
enable me to make to it, will be sent by the cor-
vette John Adana."

POETRY. ,

1. Once on a time"
(As Mother Bunch begins her tales sublime)
Once on a time, young Muses, all on fire,
Felt, what the muse demurely calls, " desire ;"
Ere long, in tad, a certain sea-port rung,
That Moll (the wicked wench) was big with young,

And Moses was the sire.
The roast being blown, a furious overseer
Did soon at good old Mordecai's appear,
And to the man of beard thought tit to trumpet,
Tht Moses was a rake—and Molt a strumpet.
In short, that madam was about swear
To Moses, possibly a son and heir,
0 r—'w hat is equally a source of laughter—
A thing we Cornish gentry call a "
Sad Mordecai, with uplett hands and eyes,
Stared, like a dying conger, with surprize ;
But deeming it all idle to palaver,
Said, that his wicked shun vasb goings° Havre.

" Have her; (the churchman cried, with smiling face)
That alters, Mr. Mordecai, the case;
Let him maintain—'tis all we have in view—
This moiety of Christian and of Jew ;
Yes, let him give his hand, and board and bedding,
And ward the blow of Justice with a wedding."

Thus spake he, and retir'd ;—but mark tW event,_
Moses, in sober truth, to Havre went,
Leaving his dupe, a poor astonish'd ass,
To sing Old Rose and burn the Bellows,
Or seek this vile and vickedest of fellows
At—Havre de Grace.

• The Comedy of Rule a Wife and have a ffffe,
was represented last night at • the Haymarket
Theatre.—Mr. C. KEMBLI3 who appeared in Leon
for the first time, acquitted himself very ably, and
Mrs. C. KEMBLEI was admirable in Estifania.
Mrs, JORDAN closes her eng,agement at .the Edin-
burgh Theatre, this night, with Lady •Teazle, in
The School Jr Scandal, and Nell, in The Devil to
Pay, for her own benefit. On Saturday lam she
played Bizarre and Roxalana ; -on Monday Miss
liOydon and Clara ; and last night Estiafnia and
4,bnenthis.

THE ARMY.—The Local Mditia.—lt is enatc.led,
" That no Commissioned Officer or Non-commis-
sioned Officer, Corporal or "Private Man, of any of
his Majesty's Forces .or Marines of the regular. Mi-
litia, or Overseer or Churchwarden of any Parish, or
-any other Person, shall enlist or persuade to enlist
any Man serving in any Regiment of the Local- Mi-
litia, during such part of the period, of such Regi-
ment being assembled, trained, or exercised, as shall
•Ife prescribed by his. Majesty at the period of as-
sembling, during which, persons serving in the Lo-
cal Militia shall not be enliSted, on pain of forfeit•
tog for every such offence the sum of eol."
On Wednesday last, eight waggons, laden with
military stores, arrived in Carlisle, and proceeded to
the Castle, where their contents were deposited.
It is the intention of Government, we understand,
to make the Castle of Carlisle a considerable de-
P6t.
We regret to state, that on the 4th ult. Captain
CONN, of his Majesty's ship Stuiftsure, fell o% er-
board while the ship was in chace, going at the
rate of eight miles an hour ; and not withstanding
every exertion was made to save hiM, he unfortu-
nately was drowned. The.Swiftsure art ived at Ber-
muda on the 7th ult.

A blind man, of the name of lam Kennedy
orrandragee, in the north of Ireland, has construct-
ed a perfect chamber repeating elo'ck, and a set,of
bagpipes. The clock, excepting the spring barrel,
springs, and fusee; and the b3g-pipes, with the ex-
ception of casting and soldering the silver pipes, arc
all the work of his owo