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Hull. 



sels. The following Table, shewing the amount of the 

 customs in different years, will exhibit a correct view of 

 the progress of the trade of Hull. 



1701 

 1778 

 1785 

 1792 

 1802 

 1803 

 1804 



26,287 



78,229 



91,366 



199,988 



438,459 



379,675 



287,210 



1805 

 1806 

 1807 

 1808 

 1809 

 1810 



386,070 

 . 374,907 

 . 340,825 

 . 198,487 

 . 276,811 

 . 311,780 



The following Table exhibits the state of the Green- 

 land fishery, from 1806 to 1811 inclusive. 



The inland trade of Hull exceeds that of any other 

 English port. In the year 1792, merchandise, stores, 

 coals, &c. to the value of 5,156,998, were conveyed to 

 and from the Aire and Calder navigation alone. 



The following Table contains the number of ships 

 that entered inwards and cleared outwards, from 1804 

 to 1810 inclusive. 



Various manufactures are carried on in Hull. One 

 of the principal is the expressing and refining oil from 

 lintseed, and preparing the residue for feeding cattle. 

 Many of the mills for this purpose, and for grinding 

 corn, are from about 80 to 100 feet high, and contain 

 excellent machinery. The other manufactories are an 

 iron foundery, a large soap- work, two sugar-houses, se- 

 veral white lead manufactories, several breweries, and 

 several ropeworks and ship-builders yards. 



The civil authority of the county of Kingston-upon- 

 Hull, which includes a district of more than 18 miles, 

 comprehending the villages of Hessle, Anlaby, Kirk 

 Ella, West Ella, Swanland, and North Ferriby, is 

 vested in the corporation, consisting of the mayor, the 

 recorder, the sheriff, two chamberlains, and twelve al- 

 dermen. The town sends two members to parliament, 

 who are elected by the burgesses. 



The following is an abstract of the population returns 

 for the town of Hull in 181 1- : 



Number of inhabited houses 4611 



Do. of uninhabited houses 306 



Do. of families 6541 



Do. employed in agriculture 305 



Do. employed in trade and manufactures . 2608 

 Do. not included in any of these classes . 3628 



Males 11,998 



Females 14,794 



Total population 26,792 



See the Guide to Hull, published by Mr Craggs, who 

 has favoured us with the proof sheets of it before it was 

 published; Tickhill's History of Hull ; and the Beau- 

 ties of England and Wales, vol. xvi. p. 447 .''37. 



HUMBER, the Abus of Ptolemy, is a large river or 

 estuary in England, which runs into the German Ocean 

 after separating the counties of York and Lincoln. Be- 

 low the confluence of the Ouse with the Trent, the for- 

 mer of which carries off almost all the waters of York- 

 shire, the united streams receive the name of the Hurn- 

 ber. It is gradually enlarged to the breadth of two or 

 three miles, and below Hull it swells into an estuary 

 about six or seven miles broad. The Humber has been 

 compared to the trunk of a vast tree, spreading its branch- 

 es in every direction, and commanding the navigation 

 and trade of a very extensive and commercial part of 

 England. See ENGLAND, Vol. VIII. p. 687, 688. 



HUME, DAVID, an eminent historian, metaphysician, 

 and general literary character, was the younger son of 

 a very respectable Scottish family, and was born at 

 Edinburgh on the 26th of April 1711. He lost his fa- 

 ther when an infant, and the care of his education de- 

 volved on his mother, whom he describes as a woman 

 of great merit, who performed in a most exemplary^, 

 manner the duties of an only parent. In his youth he 

 made a creditable appearance as a scholar, and acquired 

 a high ardour for literature. This did not, as often hap- 

 pens, subside as soon as those more serious occupa- 

 tions to which, in the common calculations of mankind, 

 literature is reckoned preparatory and subservient, were 

 presented to his mind. His fortune being slender, 

 he was destined to the profession of the law. But 

 this pursuit, with all the prospects of honour and 

 wealth which it presents to an aspiring mind, had not 

 for him sufficient charms to eclipse the attractions of 

 classical literature and philosophy. Nor was Mr Hume 

 even content to cultivate the two pursuits in conjunc- 

 tion, the one as the means of his future livelihood, and 

 the other as having a more immediate relation to man 

 as a thinking being. The contrast of their intrinsic 

 character had the effect of disgusting him with the 

 study of law, which he wholly neglected in order to 

 devote himself to literature. He therefore renounced 

 entirely these professional pursuits. Not entertaining 

 the hope, however, of supporting himself comfortably 

 by literary occupations, he was prevailed on, at the age 

 of twenty -three, to make a feeble attempt to enter on a 

 mercantile employment in the city of Bristol. This he 

 soon relinquished as totally unsuited to his turn of 

 mind ; and at last, combining a regard for his favourite 

 studies with the dictates of prudence, he formed a plan 

 for leading the life of a literary man. He resided for 

 two years in France, first at Rheims, and afterwards at La 

 Fleche in Anjou, where he practised a strict economy, 

 and prosecuted with much industry his literary studies. 

 In this retreat he probably had not access to extensive 

 libraries, and depended chiefly on a small collection of 

 his own, with such assistance as was furnished by the 

 convents of the country. Here he was chiefly occupied 

 in the composition of that ingenious, but singular and 

 somewhat paradoxical work, his Treatise on Human 

 Nature. He acknowledges that, in the midst of these 

 studies, he was not certain of the utility of his labours, 

 and was in some measure puzzled by the interminable 

 problems which his own ingenuity had raised; yet he 

 gave himself up to the bent of an inquisitive mind, re. 



Humber, 

 Hume. 



