Pof*uiiI£
'TI ON.
Colonies.
T o # e enumerätiön-of the inhabitants o f Engbtad,- may bfeädfted
many exterior colonies:land fettlements, the mod important of which
as?e h o w in A lia ; but as'the elim-ätelöfi| Hindoftan is rather .afdÄfe’bto
European dönftitütiönd* it may be do&btfed - -whether our fettlements
there, though containing a eonffdei-ablc.population, can be cortfulercd
as permanent cölönies. The natives fubjedl to Great Britain carinot
be now calculated at lefs than forty millions, in itfelf an empire-. ..The
acquisition- -of' theaDutch fettl.emepts* the colony qf.New Halbmdj dnd
mlore minute ftatiossumuft alfo3 b.e taken into „t-hg -acqöunt,g >1p America,
and what is called the Weft Indies ; Canada, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland,
and the more northern fettlements, with Jamaica, and the
other iflandsj. may- perhaps contain a million. In Africa, the !§ffikr
ments, at the- Cape *>f G-oodi ,-Hqpej the • Ifland,;o f; fk.. fie le n ä ,. änd^at
Sierra R e f f te ,'p r e f e r andnl%»iftcantt number, and Gibraltar is rather
to be regarded as a ,. If f^ e je om p u t^ tlie North, Ame-
RanlcsY 1
Number1 öf M Heids in -. i:- fi Nümbe/ Öf Ferfonsi “ f
Brought forward ; r - ~ -I - - " - - —
Ferfons in the law - - _
Perfons ö f the liberal arts | _M H T - x L i L , » . - - M m m m
Freeholders o f .thé better fort _ 1 '1 40',OOQ • -a*
Shopkeepers and tradefmen - - 50,000:,' if u X ; _
Ä^tizjaaS-"' H K D K - . •: :/r,Vvj; •-'.. .- •- 4 ; • ' _ 240)000 in
Freeholders o f th e fefTer fort . ■ ' ;t ï . - - . 5 i i
Farmers , - , - _ - » . 150,0b, i-,y ï p ^ é ^ )
-G-ipfies, thieves, beggars, 8éc. - __ r n ^ m m
■ Common- foldiers . - WM • z ,,
Common failors ‘ * - -:S. j^%?ö£qoo '■ .* i l l ':h:
Labourers and out-iervants ^Ö4>ooo - i / S ' " ” ' C T p i,274,aóoÉ>-
Cottagers and. paupers - - %i^),ooo :
is now fuppofed that n e a fi,600,000 perfans are
_ n f h __t r. .. \ .... .1 «
employed, in manufaótures, and-Mr. Young
( Northern Tour, vol, iv. p. 364.) computes that- 2,800,000 are occupied in farming. T he number
o f domeftics_aIlowed b y E n g , might ;be in part computed, b y reducing the ftfperiof families to
■ four. T h e number o f paupers and. beggars. ^hoi,: in fa£t, detract from the national■ ftrengfh, can
now fcarcely be fuppofed lefs.than a million. The faildrs and foldiers, amount to about 460,000.
The Shopkeepers are perhaps triple. With thefe additions, &c. it would be eafy to fwel'l the lift
to our prefent fuppofed population o f eight millions. The reader may alfo oonfult'Mr. Grenier’s
table o f the-produfitive and unproductive claffes, in the Monthly Magazine, vol. x . p. zy.lXbut as
he eftimates the population o f England at only five millions and a half, his alfumptions cannot be
•entirely credited, while fomh late writers, on the contrary, increafe the population o f England alone
•id eleven millions!
rican
aScan States, de^ched .from country,, at ia population of "five
miffiQhs,WEngland at feyen,. Scotians; a-t.two, Ireland three* and pur
.colonies and 'fettfeptehts* at- tw.o millions,,'twe Ihalb flpd' in; ‘the yarious
regions of the. .globe an incrcaling population of nineteen tpi$twenty
millidns*idiffufing^bg?lEng4SftkVlang£agg-.and‘ maiihers tena? vaft extent.-
The army of England has latterly engrafted a conftderable fhare
of the population.. ft is elliniated in. regulars at 41 regiments of
cavalry, and 144 of infantry, while the fencibles form 45 regiments,
and the militia 86, excluuve of artillery and engineers I I >.
rank and file* inqiti)di|g invalids, militia, and foreig 1 cbrpsyl as well as
the. regular and fencible troops, was returned to the feefetary of war, in
December h |:8do:, as aiuounting to'. i bS.jpSh. The volunteer ■ c.brps in.
Great Britain and Ireland, may probably, amount tp-6o,ooo effjfeivettaehfV,
ButTh'e 1 great rampart, and-ffipfeine' df'wteat ’Britain,
in'her riaVy ; in n|p',i*ffeettgtb,1 ?airff
e^a^pi^on'j^ecrfpfl“. ♦ 'If -abtta'daflcB ^wdcuinVcn't-.'dld liot- ebdlt, tile
following?gehtiiriMllift wouM^Ateely be eredited byljictpddifl*? f
Slalcnuint of the 'Difl'ribuï n f the- Hritijh N,di)al P-oru:, \ ïüfmÊif the it I at hiecl VeJJhls,
‘which- are chiefly, employed in firoteflmgithe CöafiihghTradèflf Great- MHiflin.
!
; Liiïl.y;■ | Frigates. ■ -SHips,, * ‘Total.
In Porf ?md fitting - W m % SgSBffl 46 'w f j 1
-Guard' Ships / - - ' : ■ i 1 o I ■r’&
,In the Englifli and Irifh' Channels _ - -r >5 3 3 ... l M J
In the-Downs and'NorthjSeas J it r .T i r ■! i o i l s
iAtithé ^«^ fe^ a ':I^a i|3s/andfoAh^he^paffage :yt \ I 2 1
• i, " t ? f - - i »,'V' ' ' ;1 " ' T?' ’ 1 1 i 22 1 -. 1 1 , .4P- ;
In America, and at Newfoundland i ^ § l f l i 4 1 C 2 ’ O |m m 1 1
Cape of Eaftf|pdiesy and‘ on the paffage. v • ; ,10 20 57
Coall of Africa , « y - ^ , r - ^ \ I’WdW i
' Codlg©J|^§tugäI, Gibraltar, and Mediterranean | | Ail 1 Ü i ■ 28, ' %&>:
HofpitabancbiPirifon S'hips A ||J| A A | \ ." R S || irjuKH?. 1 1 ii;$ y
. Tota l in Commiflion 2 I 2 27°
■! Reeeivin:g,tSlwps: ;iWt, ; ■ ^ ^ - - I i ' 7 17 g
1 Serviceable, ahd repairing for*fepviceb'', 3 J jfó ^ *??W 1; 2 yio\- ?• Ï 0 H i
i .. - • - . ,7' y, ï4f' ’m E b ; - . 2:3f j :4%. ; I -114 Building, ' ‘ t ’ . i ' t1?’ 1 2 m m 0
^ v Totals - * iMyfj i l l ! 787.
( •' Army, f,::!, jap, 1801.
. h . the daily papers', yet by the fame:'Authority, the "fecrétiary ;df war, ! the 16rh Feb. 1H01;.
computed the .regulars i t . iijjgviSy ; .militia, 78,940; fénèibïes 31,415 Vg.in'vjall, 302,642. The èx-
pence near-thirteen" “ l ‘ ! f 1 " Ireland,.feehis exaggerated.
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