35 GENERAL VIEW OF 



compared with Holland, China, antient Greece, Italy.? 

 and Egypt, feems to be nearly in a ftate of nature ; 

 Hill more fo, is the northern part of our ifland, as will 

 appear in the fubfequent review of that kingdom. 



Refpedting population, we have to obferve that 

 the feven United Provinces of the Netherlands, 

 containing only 9540 fquare miles, and fupplied iri 

 grain and neceffaries by their neighbours, calculate 

 the number of inhabitants at about 2,000,000. 

 Whereas Great Britain, which contains 77,144 

 fquare miles, and fupplies other nations with its ex- 

 uberance, whofe natural fituation is moil eminently 

 calculated for inland and foreign trade, is fuppofed 

 to be inhabited by no more than 6,300,000. We 

 may therefore, without entering upon minute cal- 

 culation, thus eilimate the number of people, whoj 

 with the aid of government, might be maintained 

 and employed in Great Britain, viz. 



In England 12,000,006 



Scotland 3,000,000 



15^000,000 



If the Irifh government lhall perfevere"^ 

 in its patriotic efforts, the popula- [ 

 tion of that fertile kingdom may be ( & ' OO 

 increafed from 2 to 



io,ooo,oco 



the whole conftituting a power fufficient for all 

 the purpofes of external defence, againft the united 

 force of our formidable rival, and her numerous 

 allies. 



To thefe favourable circumftances on the creditor 

 fide of public affairs, we have further to add, that, 

 after 1791, the remaining long annuities, and life- 

 annuities, granted in the reign of King William 

 and Queen Anne, alfo the annuities given as pre- 

 i miums 



