The National Register. — London, England, 1811-07-21 00:00:00

and Badajoz; and the cavalry of the Army or Portugal upon Campo Mayor, from the neighbourhood of Badajoz. The former succeeded in cutting off a picquet of the 11th light dragoons which had been posted on the Caya in front of Elvas, under the command of Capt. Lutyens. It is understood that the cause of this was that Gapt. Lutyens mistook a regiment of the enemy's hussars for a body of ours sent to his support. The Sd hussars also, which were on the Guadiana, on the right of Elvas, suffered in their retreat towards Elvas. The enemy were kept in check in the neighbourhood of Campo Mayor by the lion. Major-General De Grey's brigade of British, and Brigadier-General Madden's brigade of Portu guese cavalry, and they retired without seeing the position of our troops. Since that day they have made no movement of importance. Their army is along the Guadiana between Bada joz and Merida, and their principal occupation appears to be to procure subsistence. They are already beginning to experience, In some degree, the effects of drawing together, in Estremadura, their whole force. General Bonnet has evacuated the Asturias. .Don Julian Sanchez has possession of the open country in Old Castile, and has recently intercepted a valuable convoy 0f mo ney and provisions on the road from Salamanca to Ciudad Rod rigo; and I learn from Valladolid, that a very valuable convoy, consisting of Joseph Btionaparte's baggage and property, has been intercepted by Mina, near Victoria. General Blake crossed the Guadiana (as had been arranged) en the 22d instant, and I understand was at Castillegos the 21th. BANKRUPTCY ENLAP,GED. Nathaniel Gihbs Ingraham, jun. of Threadneedle-streEt, mer chant, from July 60, to July 27, at one, at Guildhall. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. James Holmes and Samuel Newbury, of Sweeting's-rents, eating-house keepers. BANKRUPTS. William Wilson, of Bishop Wearinouth, Durham, coal fitter. William Burgess, of Willow Bank, Lancaster, cotton-spinner. ' Richard Naylor, jun. of liquor-merchant. Edward Lee, of Broad.street, merchant. John Short, of Saint Catherine's-lane, East Smithfield, vic tualler. Joseph Hill, of Mary-le-eone s tailor. John Shoe!, of Hounsditch, warehow;eman. Joseph Wood, of Liverpool, merchant. Waiter Lewis, of Cheltenham, grocer. Richard Badger, of Bury, Lancaster, innholder. William Henry Sawbridge and Charles Sawbridge, late of Northampton, ironmongers. Thomas Johnson, of Oxford -street, smith. James Lodwidge, of Rickmond.place; Walworth, insurance-broker. Joseph Freeman Rattenbury, late of Copthall-court, insur ance-broker. John Danict Hose, jun. of Walbrook, merchant. Thomas Stacey, of Wandsworth, molester. Joshua Hodgkiuson, jun. lute of Snort-street s Shoreditch, Scavenger. Ann Lanchester, of St. James's-street, milliner. Thomas Halliday, of the Old South Sea House s Broad -street, merchant. William Hubble, of Dartford, miller. Richard Bayly, of Kenning ton, merchant. Vincent Tolochon, of -Old Broad-street, Hanover-square, druggibt. John 'Thomson, of Manchester; cardwain9r. Wili . 4aiu Hart, of •Tyucmouth-place, Northumberland, ship s vner. CERTIFICATES. AL Thomas Docwra, late, of Hackney, dealer.—Mattbeve Har rison of Carlisle, Cumberland, stationer.—Clay Hall, of Liver pool, merchant.—Richard Crocker, of Caine, Wilts, shop. Fosbery, of Liverpool, merchant.—Lazarus So:otoon, of St Martin's-court, • Leicester-square, umbrePa rnak,r.—Henry -Lffery,. of . Melconibe Regis, Dorset, linen draper—Richard Cowell, of Smithfield Bars, salesman.—Wil 'tam Phillii , s; late of Liverpool, broiler.—John oodhead Parkin, of the Wheei, York, tobacconi s t.—Wiiliarn Coates, of 13uckkrsbury, .Nine-nierchant.—Ebenezer itioppe, of Church street, Little Minories, mathematical instrument-inak,:r. STER. PRUDENCE. The third cardinal virtue is Prudence ; which Is the srt of se tempering our actions to circumstance or situation, that, while we give the world no occasion to impeach our wisdom, we de not betray ourselves into a liability of falling into any snare laid for our virtue. Through the want of this quality innocence has often incnrrod the stigma of guilt, the wisest plans have been defeated, the finest fortunes dissipated, and the most enchanting prospects of happi ness destroyed. • " Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge, but a fool layetli open his folly," says Solomon, and, " as a jewel of gold, in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that is without dis 4. cretion." It is a misfortune arising from the imperfection of sublunary things, that the most wisely circumspect cannot escape censure, what then must the imprudent expect ? and while the effect of it on the former is vveakened by the consciousness of not having deserved it, wjtli the latter it is aggravated by the con trary reflection. \Vial the nature of and necessity for Prudence in the general concerns of life, and the obvious outline of social commerce, every one is too well acquainted to need much precept or direc tion in the prrctice of it; but so many breaches of this virtue, arise from an inattention to the minutiae of action, and the ill timing of actions, perhaps harmless in themselves, that the youn and thoughtless ol?glit to be put perpetually on their guard; for it is not enough that we are virtuous, we must appear so--- " Make your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven." St. Paul observes that, " all things may he lawful, but all things may not be expedient," that is, a word or action which itit ore situation may be perfectly innocent, may in another be cri minal; and many young and ingenuous minds, in particular, are too apt to depend upon the rectitude of their intentions, without at all reflecting upon the possibility of consequences. In one of Mr. T. Dibdin's comedies (I think it is " Guilty er not Guilty") the following pertinent observation occurs," More mischief of t en comes of meaning no harm than people are aware of," and l would recommend it to the serious consideration of every one, that they may neither offend a " weak brother" by a neglect of the etiquette of virtue, nor unwarily put themselves ha the way of seduction. It is remarked that Crint Con. actions multiply upon us, and I would venture to say that three cases out of five arc the result of this want of caution. Married people are bound by the strictest tics, and have an indispensible obligation to keep not only their persons, but their thoughts *sa cred to each other : consequently a married woman, in particu lar, ought not to allow the most innocent freedoms from the other sex without the most scrupulous consideration, lest in one unguarded moment she.should give an artful seducer an opening to tamper with her virtue, which once entangled is easily lost; and she should consider also, that what would be an indifferent action in a single woman might be the reverse with her. The tame caution is as rcquhite for the married man. People may talk of ungenerous restraint, but they should recollect that the age of innocence is past, the age of imperfection present; and what from the cares of life, the irregularities df temper, the dif ferences of disposition, and the trials of calamity, the =lathe' life, or rath:. r the married constancy, has many drawbacks upeat it, and it requires all the exertion of virtue to keep inviolate its obligations. But as I have remarked upon the cares of a married life, let me also observe that its comforts are more than tanta nsount, and certainly exceed those of a single life; and what are its distressing cares, arise generally from the hymeneal knot hav ing been-tied from any other consideration than that of love re sulting from esteem ; excited by virtue. To the sitHe youth of both sexes let me also recommend s soict adherene . e to thii virtia., and advise them to reflect, that --:j 4A