An estimate of the comparative strength of Britain during the present and four preceding reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the Revolution ... To which is added an essay on population / by the Lord Chief Justice Hale.
- George Chalmers
- Date:
- 1782
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An estimate of the comparative strength of Britain during the present and four preceding reigns; and of the losses of her trade from every war since the Revolution ... To which is added an essay on population / by the Lord Chief Justice Hale. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![He infifls, with great plauhbility, that the number of houfes which .the furveyors ought to have returned in 1780 muft have been, for England and Wales, i>6o9,555 j which, multiplied by the dwell- ers in each, found from a fair average to be 5^, the inhabitants exifting in 1780 muft have been — — 8,691,597. Having divided the people into their clafles, he difcovered, by mediums drawn from the pro- portion of the perfons balloted for the militia, when compared with the whole inhabitants in .particular diftrifts, that there muft be in the country — — 5,266,800 fouls; in the towns — — 2,633,400: and in England and Wales Mr. Arthur Youngwhofe inquiries have been ftudioufly minute, and whofe writings on this fub- jed; are extremely rational, by a different manner of calculation computes the prefent numbers of the people [1774] at —- — , — ,7,900,200. 8,500,000. 25,091,797. The average of three diftimilar calculations 8,363,932. But, admitting, as it has been proved, that the people, in the year 1695 — — 6,017,797 have added one-third to their numbers 2,005,932; wefindas the certain refult the prefent'' inhabitants to be 8,023,729: And * North. Tour, vol. iv. p. 419. . ^ Mr. Pulteney ftates “ that the number of inhabitants of the united kingdom ' cannot be reckoned at lefs thany^ww rtiillions; — in England — 5,650,000 in Scotland — 1,350,000 7,000,000 See his Confiderations on the Prefent State [1779J of the Nation, p. go.—No- thing' can be more detrimental to any country, than that the men of real confe- qucnce, talents, and good intentions, fhould entertain erroneous opinions with re- ipeiSl to its political oeconomy.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28757671_0190.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
