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or Above that number, we have seven, ^iz., four in England, 

 Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol ; two in Scotland, 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow ; and one in Ireland, the city of Cork. 

 These seven average considerably more than one hundred 

 thousand each. We have fourteen towns of the third class, 

 or those containing from thirty to fifty thousand or upwards of 

 inhabitants, viz., ten in England: Portsmouth, Plymouth, 

 Norwich, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Bath, Newcastle, 

 Coventry, and Hull. Two in Scotland, Paisley and Dundee, 

 and two in Ireland, Belfast and Limerick. Of towns of the 

 fourth class, in which are usually reckoned those of from fifteen 

 to thirty thousand inhabitants, we have at least thirty, and pro- 

 bably more. A slight glance at the principal nations of Eu- 

 rope, with this view, will show at once their immense inferiority. 



To begin with France, the most populous of the great sove- 

 reignties. That empire possesses only one city of the first 

 class, viz. Paris, which is inferior to London by one third. She 

 has five of the second class, viz.y Lyons, Bourdeaux, Marseilles, 

 Lisle and Rouen ; but, according to the latest information which 

 I have been able to obtain, they will not reach, by a very con- 

 siderable proportion, the average number of the seven English 

 cities of the same class. France has also eight towns of the 

 third class, Tir., Amiens, .Caen, Nantes, Brest, Toulouse, 

 Toulon, Mentz, and Versailles. I am not quite sUre, as no 

 census has lately been taken, whether two or three of the follow- 

 ing towns ought not to be included in this class, though I am 

 inclined, on the whole, to a contrary opinion, viz., Meinn, 

 Montpelier, Nanci, Dijon, Toiu-s, Rennes, and Troyes; they 

 will not, however, I am persuaded, come near the average of 

 the British third-rate towns. The same remark will hold as 

 to the number and size of the inferior towns. 



With respect to the rest in rank of the great monarchies, 

 the Austrian Empire, a very few words will suffice, as it can- 

 not pretend to come into any competition with us, on the point 

 in question. Austria possesses only one city of the first class, 

 and three of the second, viz.y Vienna, Prague, Milan, Venice. 

 The towns of the third rank are proportionably few. With 

 Spain, Russia, and Prussia, it would be idle to enter itito any 

 comparison. ',*--''•;- ;^' 



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