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 Recapitulation. 



Agriculture, - - - . 2,800,000 



Landlords, mines, &c. - 800, coo 



Manufacturers, - 3,000,000 



Commerce, - 700,000 



Non-induftrious poor, - 500,000 



Clergy, law, &c. &c. - 200,000 



By public revenue, - - 500,000 



8,500,000 



Let it not be imagined that I offer fuch 

 a table as probably accurate. I would only 

 wifh thofe who confider thefe matters, 

 would reflect on the numerous profeflions 

 left out of this table, and then determine 

 whether there is not a probability of the 

 people of England amounting to nine mil- 

 lions. There are many other reafons for 

 this fuppofition. 



Sir W. Petty calculated the number in 

 England and Wales at 7,400,000, in 1682 ; 

 and Davenant, in 1692, makes them 

 8,000,000. Now I have already endea- 

 voured to fhew, that there is the greateft 

 probability imaginable to fuppofe the num- 

 ber increafed fince that time ; nor can fuch 

 increafe be fuppofed lefs than this diffe- 

 rence, 



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