506 
The interior commerce, in general and 
proximate terms, may be estimated to 
amount to— 
By natural Growth and the 
Exercise of Industry .. .. £337,577,083 
Foreign and Colonial Produce 20,831,250 
Total Interior. . £358,408,333 
And the exterior commerce— 
By the Exportation of Native 
Produce: ef iiss (ey44'0,« ««.-£. 36,940,625 
Foreign and Colonial.......- 10,578,125 
Importation.........-,--++- 31,409,375 
Total Exterior. . £78,928,125 
Grand total of interior and exterior com- 
merce in England ........ £437,336,458 
This is that immense wealth which gives 
to England the ascendant in all money 
transactions, the patronage of America, the 
possession of Asia, the empire of the seas, 
and that preponderance in Europe, which 
has been purchased by twenty years’ war 
with France; but for which Russia now 
seems ready to contend.” 
FRANCE. 
‘« No attempt has been made, ‘since the 
return of peace, to ascertain the extent of 
the commercial transactions of this country. 
Yet no statistical. report can be more in- 
teresting than,.one combining the produce 
of agriculture. and industry, consumption 
and exterior, commerce, and giving a pre- 
cise view of civilization, national wealth, 
and political’ pre-eminence. To attain 
this’ object, we have consulted, and sub- 
mitted to rigorous examination, very many 
authentic, or official documents. | Here we 
give the results: they have afforded, and 
which seem to’ us little distant from the 
truth,)-except, in, what coneers colonial 
commerce, which, is rated, perhaps, about 
a fifth below. its real value, 
The annual receipts of France are— 
Produced by national Indus- _. 
UY Seteb lek Sede ss dnewies oo col hoot od 
By Agriculture’. .......... 194,946,166 
‘By Colonial Importation .... — 1,682,500 
By Foreign Timportation ©... 14,417,500 
By Inland Importation .: .o:.. 2,166,666 
Making, together. .£289,050;415 
The | destination of this -mass- is, nearly, 
as follows :.... 
The Exportation of the Pro- ‘ 
duce of Industry........ £10,833,333 
ONSITE eecces se yecses ee 0,210,416 
From the various Marts .... 2,166,666 
The Consumption of the Pro- 
duce of Industry......2.. °65,004,250 
Of Nature S..... 255.20... 188,735,750 
Colonial and Foreign... ..5~.« 16,100,000 
Making together. , £289,050,415 
Statistics. 
(July 1, , 
In like general terms, the interior com- 
merce may be estimated to amount to— 
By natural Growth, and the 
Exercise of Industry ...... 253,740,000 
Foreign and Colonial Produce, 16,100,000 
Total Interior... £269,840,000 
And the exterior commeree— 
By the Exportation of Native 
Products»). 2s)... 220i wees 17,043,750 
By the Re-exportation from the’ 
Marts’. tte. P82. Wl ». | 2,166,666 
Importation from Colonies ., 1,682,500 
From Foreign Countries .... 14,417,500 
Total Exterior.. .. £35,310,416 
Grand Total of interior and 
exterior Commerce’) in 
Hrance As AMe 2, +s» £305, 150,416 
“To this immense sum, then, the com- 
mercial transactions of France do now 
amount!» To what a height of | prosperity 
would this empire have arisen, had not 
the sourees of ‘this wealth been turned 
aside, or stopped by fiveand twenty years 
of civil and foreign war; two invasions, 
loss of colonies, and the frequent, but un-. 
fortunate, neglect of the great principles of 
the illustrious fancier Colbert—* that the 
first interests of a state are those of agricul- 
ture, industry, and commerce!’ ”’ 
In these. amounts. I have, at the 
hazard, perhaps, of some .inaccuracy, 
reduced French francs to pounds ster- 
ling, without any minute attention to 
fractions and exchanges. but.this can 
produce no material difference; and is, 
indeed, of no sort of importance where 
general: results are the objects in con- 
templation—not the balance of a mer- 
cantile account, THERMES, 
**. To. this .communication, from our 
correspondent Thermes, it may not be amiss 
to subjoin the following miscellaneous articles 
on relative branches of Stalistics, 
POPULATION OF SWEDEN. 
Stockholm. — “The King of Sweden 
having ordered a Register (or Doomsday- 
book) to be made, since 1748 ; the follow- 
ing estimate of the population was lately 
presented to him :—The number of Swedes, 
not comprizing Finland, amounted, ’in that 
year, ‘to 1,736,483. This number increased, 
in 1773; to°1,958;797 3 im 1798, "it became 
2,352,298; and, in 1823, itwas 2,687,457. 
Thus’ the annual-increase’ has-been, 12,680 
for the space. of | seventy-five years. In 
1823, there. were married.47,858 couple ;* 
: __ died, 
“The Rev! Encye. ftom Which we ex- 
tract has 477,858; but a moment’s com- 
parison with the other numbers will eyiuce, 
