These persons, with their families, form, 
beyond a doubt, a considerable portion 
of the new population of the suburbs of 
London; probably they occupy at least 
five thousand of -the largest new houses : 
T shall remark, by the bye, that they 
also form @ considerable portion of the 
idle inhabitants of Bath, Cheltenham, 
Clifton, Brighton, and other fashionable 
watering-places. , 
2. The irtrease of our government 
establishments, the treasury, the cus- 
toms, the excise, army, navy, and tax- 
offices; and of our great trading com- 
panies, the Bank, the India-house, and 
others of bill-brokers, bankers, and pri- 
vate establishments, furnishes at least 
three thousand competent occupiers of 
the new houses. None of these esta- 
blishments, or occupations, provide 
board and lodging for their clerks and 
their families; hence all houses from 
forty pounds'to one hundred pounds per 
annum, in new and pleasant streets, are 
eagerly taken by this class, and they are 
constantly on the increase in their several 
departments. 
3. Persons who live upon annuities 
derived from the increased public funds, 
and from the numerous stock companies 
created in the metropolis within the last 
twenty or thirty years, are a large class 
,of new metropolitan housekeepers. 
They feel. a local interest and attach. 
ment; they are, besides, in general, 
natives, or old residents of London; and 
they prefer receiving their interest in 
as to confiding it to any agent. 
hese occupy at least three thousand 
of the new-built houses, at rents at from 
fifty-to two hundred pounds per annum. 
4. The general increase of the metro- 
polisy by adding to the mass of luxury, 
as increased the number of artizans, 
and persons employed on objects of lux- 
ury, such as painters, engravers, jew- 
ellers, embroiderers, authors, designers, 
architects, and others of like description; 
and these require three thousand 
small habitations ‘among the new build. 
ings in the retired streets around the me- 
tropolis. 
5. Another distinct. large class of re- 
-sidlents, in the immediate environs of 
London, are French, Dutch, Spanish, 
German, Italian, and other emigrants 
who, daring the late wars and revolutions, 
have fled to England, as a place of se- 
curity, and who, by the aliea laws, are 
attached to'tne metropolis. I estimate 
_those to amount to about two thousand 
families; aud they live in the smaller 
Causes of the Increase of London. 
tenements, either on annuities, on the 
bounty of government, or by their labour 
in various departments of the arts. _ 
6. The sixth class of independent 
residents in the suburbs, are an increased 
number of persons who have made for- 
tunes of various amounts in trade. 
These occupy at least two thousand of 
the new houses, of all sizes. 
7. The enormovs increase of the army 
and navy, and’ the consequent increase 
of officers living on half-pay, and on pen- 
sions, leads to the occupation of at least 
two thousand houses in the immediate 
vicinity of London, not only for the 
advantages of society, but for the con- 
venience of receiving their annuities, and 
improving their interests with adminis» 
tration. M 
Hence, from these seven causes, we 
have no difficulty in accounting for the 
occupation of part of the recent forty 
thousand new houses, by the families of 
5000 Colonists, and persons who have mad@ 
their fortunes in the East or Wese 
Indies. 
3000 Clerks in public offices, in bankinge 
houses, &. 
3000 Annuitants of the 
companies, 
3000 Artists of luxury. 
2000 Emigrants of all nations. 
2000 Retired traders, 
2000 Officers of the army and navy. 
funds and stock 
20,000 Families. 
Having thus accounted for the aug- 
mented population of twenty thousand 
houses, it is easy to conceive that as 
many more are greedily taken by trades- 
men and others, who purpose to obtain 
a living out of those by trade and labour 
of various kinds, There will be bakers, 
butchers, fruiterers, grocers, public- 
houses, barbers, taylors, -shoe-makers, 
hatters, carpenters, smiths, bricklayers, 
schoolmasters, lawyers, apothecaries, 
physicians, andvall the varieties which ' 
compose the industrious and enterprising 
part of a community, supporting them- 
seives out of the wants of the twenty 
thousand independent families, and also 
on thetnutual wants of eacly other. . 
‘To what extent this increase of a me~ 
tropolis can be advantageously earried, 
it 1s impossible to anticipate. Amcient 
Rome was said to be sixty miles round ; 
and London is not yet more than twenty. 
To equal ancient Rome, it must include ’ 
Stratiord to the east,.and Brentford en 
the ‘west; Hampstead aud Higligate on 
the north; aud Clapham and ei 
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. [Feb. 1, 
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