6 20 Account of the Number of Foreigners in England. [Jan. l , 



liave tlie honour to be, Sir, your mod 

 obedient and obligtd humble fervanl, 



G. Wasiiingio.v. 

 Thiladclphia, Dec. 11, 1796. 



P. S. As I fhall have an opportunity, in 

 the couife of the prefent felTton of congrufs, 

 to converfe with the members thereof from 

 , different itates, and from different parts of 

 each ftate, I will write you a fuppltmentary 

 account, if effential information rtiould be 

 obtained in addition to, or corrective of, 

 what is given to you in the foregoing ftieets. 



To the Editor of the Monthli/ Magazine. 

 silt, 



A]\i()XG the various intercfting mat- 

 ter in your valuable Maga/ine, the 

 dili'ercrit Itatiiiical tables of pojuilation 

 liave been particularly grateful to moft 

 of your numerous readers. Not liaving 

 I'cen, however, any account of the num- 

 ber of foreigners in this kin^^dom, I fend 

 you the fallowing Iketch, which has been 

 drawn from actual obfervation and au- 

 thentic l()urces. 



It has long been the wife policy of the 

 Britiih government to encourage emi- 

 gration from foreign countries, with a 

 view to introduce the various manufac- 

 tures peculiar to thcnr ; and perhaps the 

 encouiaiicment to Aliens to fettle among 

 us ought to be extended and increalcd, 

 at a moment wiien fome of the molt 

 vealthy parts of Europe are a prey to 

 the horrors of war, and when thoufands 

 muft be anxious to meet w^itli an afylum 

 for thcrafelvcs, their families, and pro- 

 perty. 



It appears that there are domefticated 

 among us at prefent about 11,400 fo- 

 reigners, and that 16,000 others are en- 

 gaged in our various military or naval 

 fervices, &c., chieily abro;id. 



1 Foreign troops in Britiih pay, 



mollly Germans - - - 12,500 



2 Foreigners of dilTerent nations 



intermixed in our army 



and navy ----- 3000 



3 In the merchant fervice, as 



feamen - - - - 500 



16,000 



4 Emigrant French clerg\ - 2.50 



5 Italians and Swifs - - - - 8ti0 



6 French ------ 5,000 



7 Germans ------ 2,.')00 



8 Dutch ------- 500 



9 Americans ------ 700 



10 RuHians ------ 1,50 



11 Spaniards ------ 300 



12 All other nations - - - - 1,200 



Total 27,100 



Of the clafs No. 1, above one half 

 are at prefent cither in Ireland, or abroad 

 on various fervices. 



INo. 2, arc interperfcd in every regi- 

 ment in the army, and Ihips of the line. 



4. Mofily kept on chanty. 



5. Mollly vagabonds, travelling the 

 country with images and pictures, and 

 perfons efcapcd from the confcription of 

 France. 



6. The greater part arc valets, teach- 

 ers in fchools, &:c. 



7. The greatei- part are fugar-boilcrs 

 and other labourers, including above 700 

 Jews. 



8. P.Ioftly employed in trade and com- 

 merce. 



May I a(k what nccefnty now exifts 

 for the provilions of an Alien Bill, palVed 

 ill tiiiKi fo different from the prefent ? 

 Ought not England to be a lain! of li- 

 berty to the inhabitants of every nation, 

 as loon as they fet foot on it ? — Does not 

 our free prels furiiilh daily more infor- 

 mation than could be collected by a le- 

 gion of fpies.? 

 December, 1806. 11. S. Jackson. 



For the Monthli/ Magazine. 



account o/' /Ae manuscript o/' philo- 



DEMUS, wniTTEN in the timeo/'ci- 



CEno, and found in the iiuins of 



iirr.cuLANEUM ; accompanied iy a 



fAC-SIMILF. ENGRAVING of thc FIRST 

 PAGE. 



SO long ago as 17.52, the difcovery of 

 the Herculaneuin muniifcripts was 

 aiiiiounred to tlie world. 1'hcy were 

 found in one of thc ruined villas under 

 il Bofcu di Stint Atiguftino, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the royal palace at Portici ; 

 and amouiitcil in number to leveral hun- 

 dreds ; forming an entire library, cora- 

 pofod of vijlunus of Jilgyptian papi/rus, 

 fome in the Greek and otheis 111 the 

 I^atin tongue. A letter from Camillo 

 I'adenii to Thomas Hollis, F.f'q., .dated 

 Maples, October 18, 17.54, fays of the 

 place where they were found, '' As yet 

 ■s\c have only entered into one room, the 

 floor of which is ft)nned of mofaic work, 

 not unclcgant. It appears to have been 

 a library, adorned with prelles, inlaid 

 with dilVcrent forts of wood difpofed in 

 ro'AS, at the top of which were cornices, 

 as in our times." In the fame room were 

 found fmall bulls of Epicurus, Zcno, and 

 Iluinachus, with their names infcribed 

 upon thc pedellals in Greek letters. 



The liternry world, though occafion- 



ally reminded that the labours of the 



Neapolitan academicians to (ie\ elope the 



content^ 



