POPULATION. 



tP upwards of twenty thousand inhabi- 

 tants, are the following : 



Inhabitants. Towns. Petsons to a House. 

 73,G7 ( J Birmingham 5 

 53.16J Leeds ' 4} 



36,832 Norvich 4^ 



31,314 Sheffield 4| 



28,861 Nottingham 5 



The latter are all manufacturing towns, 

 the trade of which had for several years 

 previously to the enumeration, been in a 

 verv distressed situation, and had reduc- 

 ed the population much below its usual 

 standard ; a few years of peace will re- 

 store the inhabitants which these towns 

 had lost, and reduce, in some degree, the 

 population of the principal out-ports. 



Proportion of persons to a house in 

 towns of a moderate size. 



The enumeration has not only ascer- 

 tained with precision the proportion of in- 

 habitants to the houses, but likewise the 

 proportion of males and females. It has 

 been long known, that more male children 

 come into the world than females, of 

 which, additional evidence is furnished by 

 the registers of baptisms collected on this 

 occasion, the total of the twenty-nine 

 vears for which returns were required, 

 being 3,285,188 males, and 3,150,922 fe- 

 males, or 104 males born to 100 fe- 

 males. This approaches much nearer 

 to equality, than the proportion which 

 previous accounts had appeared to esta- 

 blish, and will probably be found nearer 

 the truth. It has been asserted, that al- 

 though more nudes are born than females, 

 there are more females living than males. 

 This opinion appears to have been form- 

 ed from accounts of places of small extent, 

 or in which the males belonging to such 

 places, who at the time were employed 

 in the army and sea-service, were not in- 

 cluded ; and if only the resident popula- 

 tion is considered, there certainly will 

 appear an excess of females in almost 

 every part of Great Britain. In the ma- 



ritime counties there appears to be on an. 

 average 110 females to 10'J males, and in 

 the inland counties 104 females to 100' 

 males. There can be no sufficient reason 

 assigned for a greater proportion of fe- 

 males residing in the counties which con- 

 tain sea-ports, but their connection with 

 males engaged in a seafaring life ; and in 

 reality the proportion of females is not 

 greater in these counties than in the others, 

 but it unavoidably appears so, in conse- 

 quence of persons in the navy and mer- 

 chants service having been accounted for 

 in a body, and therefore not being includ- 

 ed in the returns of the parishes to which 

 they belong. Ot the total number of males 

 in Great Britain, it appears that one in 

 twenty-seven, or nearly four in 104, are 

 in the army and militia, which corres- 

 ponds with the appearance of an excess 

 of females in the inland counties, whence 

 most of our soldiers, but scarce any sai- 

 lors, are supplied ; and of the total num- 

 ber of males in Great Britain, the army, 

 navy, and seamen in the merchants ser- 

 vice, amount together to one in 11, or 

 somewhat less than 10 out of 110; which 

 agrees so nearly with the average excess 

 of females in the maritime counties, that 

 little doubt can remain that the appear- 

 ance of an excess of females has been 

 caused merely by soldiers and seamen 

 not being included in the parochial re- 

 turns. 



The total number of males, including 

 the army, navy, &c. was 5,450,292 ; the 

 total of females 5,492,354, exceeding the 

 males by 42,062, which difference, of less 

 than one in 100, may be accounted for 

 by emigration from this country -.o the 

 East and West Indies, America, &c. very 

 few females going from hence u> (-.>&-.. ia 

 foreign parts, in comparison with the num- 

 ber of males who are continually leaving 

 the country in commercial pursuits, or 

 from other motives. The result of the 

 enumeration, therefore, strongly proves 

 that the number of males and femalep 

 living is as nearly equal as in a subject 

 of this nature could be expected ; and 

 the circumstance, of a greater propor- 

 tion of males being born, appears a ne- 

 cessary provision for maintaining this 

 equality, as providing against the greater 

 adventitious mortality among males, in 

 consequence of the casualties to which 

 they are exposed, and particularly from 

 war and navigation. 



An attempt was made to ascertain the 

 population of France, -by command of the 

 government, in.the tenth year oi the Re- 



public, but tl>e account does not appear 



to 



dagndd! 



