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 nothing to do with the enquiry : A man 

 and his family may be fed and cloathed as 

 well, and live as happy, in a country that 

 contains but five millions of inhabitants, as 

 in one that contains twenty millions. The 

 only refpecl: in which great numbers of peo- 

 ple are of confequence, is relative to the 

 collective intereits ; thofe of the State. 



All public works, and public employ- 

 ments, require men for the execution ; and 

 population fhould rlourim fufHciently for af- 

 fording fuch affirmance, without injuring the 

 ceconomy of agriculture, manufactures, com- 

 merce, or any ufefui profeilion in the na- 

 tion. I have before proved the nation to 

 be in the pofleffion of a vaft income, highly 

 fufficient for all demands, to pofTefs a vigo- 

 rous agriculture, flourifhing manufactures, 

 and an extended commerce, in a word, to 

 be a great induftrious country. Now I con- 

 ceive that it is impoffible to prove fuch 

 points without proportionably proving the 

 kingdom to be a populous one. Riches and 

 population, I apprehend, will eternally be 

 found fynonymous terms ; for I have no 

 conception of riches any where abounding, 

 without numbers of people. 



It is certainly a fad:, that men have never 

 been wanting in this country when money 

 was at command, either for foreign wars, 



or 



