_ Germany, including 
TINSEAU’S STATISTICAL VIEW OF FRANCE. 
fntermixture of a little more of that per- 
sonal and specific information concern- 
ing many individuals alluded to, which 
the translatress has probably had pecu- 
liar opportunities of attaining. 
The present here made to the Eng- 
lish public is the more valuable, as we 
understand that the Frénch edition is 
not yet published; and possibly may be 
thought by the low jealousy of the new 
monarch of France unfit for publication 
in his realms. An authority reduced to 
Agr. XIII. 
THIS work, with the exception of a 
few pages of remarks, consisting wholly 
of tables, is no proper object of literary 
criticism. It is, however, a most im- 
portant political document, and on this 
account demands a short analysis of its 
contents. r 
The tables contained in this volume 
were drawn up in the 10th year of the 
French republic, (1801) by order of the 
government, and under the direction of 
the minister of justice, Abrial, assisted by 
Chanlaire and Herbin. Although the 
total amount of the French population 
is considerably greater than it has usu- 
ally been reckoned, yet there seems no 
reason to call in question the accuracy of 
this enumeration, more especially as the 
present population of several of the large 
manufacturing towns, is stated consi- 
derably lower than what was known to 
be the actual amount before the revolu- 
tion. 
The first document is a compleat table 
of all the departments, subdivided into 
districts and cantons, with an account 
of the population of the cantons and 
chief towns, their territorial extent, and 
‘the number of communes belonging to 
each canton. ‘There are 102 depart- 
ments, divided into 3317 communes, Cc- 
cupying an extent of 636,343 kilome- 
tres, (about 193,933 square miles) and 
containing a population of 33,104,343 
souls, exclusive of the six departments of 
Piedmont, whose population is 1,946,800 
souls, on a territory of 21,906 kilometres. 
The population of old France amounts 
to 27,989,924 souls, on 161,810 square 
miles of territory ; the acquisitions from 
the Austiian Ne- 
therlands, amount to 18,675 square 
miles, with a population, of 4,387,000 
inhabitants ; those from Switzerland and 
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put its seal on the doors of printing- 
offices, may be worthy of the barbaric 
force by which it was elevated : but it 
must check the foundation of schools, 
and the circulation of intelligence in 
France: it must condemn an adoles- 
cence, elsewhere consecrated to learn- 
ing, there to be squandered in the de- 
bauched idleness of camps and barracks, 
‘fit would retain in its grasp the crosier 
of bigotry and the sceptre of tyranny. 
A Statistical View of France, compiled from authentic Documents. By the 
Chevalier Dt TINnseAv. 
Svo. pp. 178. 
Italy (exclusive of Piedmont) amount 
to 5103 square miles, with a population 
of 727,419 inhabitants; hence the total 
population of the French empire, not 
including the dependent and tributary 
states of Holland, Switzerland, Tusca- 
ny, and the Cisalpine republic, amounts 
to 35,051,143 souls. 
The second table contains a list of the 
500 principal cities and towns in France, 
arranged according to the number of 
their inhabitants; of these, 29 contain 
from 1500 to less than 4000 each; 115 
contain from 4000 to 5000 ; 106 contain 
from 5000 to 6000; 58 contain from 
6000 to 7000; 34-contain from 7000 to 
8000; 27 contain from 8000 to 9000; 
15 contain from 9000 to 10,000 ; 45 con- 
tain from 10,000 to 15,000; 24 contain 
‘from 15,000 to 20,000; 22 contain from 
20,000 to 80,000; 12 contain from 30,000 
to 50,000; 8 contain from 50,000 to 
100,000; and 4 contain above 100,000. 
The population of the whole 500 towns 
amounts to 5,405,119 souls; of which 
Paris contains 546,856; Bourdeaux 
119,844; Marseilles 111,130; and Ly- 
ons 109,500. 5 
The third table exhibits the internal 
revenue, collected in the 102 depart- 
ments, under the heads of—i. land-tax, 
2. personal taxes, and upon furniture, &c, 
3. house and window tax, +. patents, or 
licenses to exercise particular trades, 5. 
additional centimes; besides which the 
expences of public instruction, provincial 
administration, and judicial courts, ane 
charged on each department. The to- 
tal amount of all these are,—]. land- 
tax 210,000,000 francs, > 2. personal, 
&c. 32,000,000, 3. houses and windows 
17,600,000, 4. patents 21,845,425, 5. ad- 
ditional 38,720,000, 6. administration 
cok ih 7. judiciary 14,909,385, &. 
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