Ch. ix. in England (continued). 441 



creased power of production, both in agriculture 

 and manufactures. These are the two elements 

 which form the most effective encouragement to 

 a rapid increase of population. What has taken 

 place is a striking illustration of the principle of 

 population, and a proof that in spite of great 

 towns, manufacturing occupations, and the gra- 

 dually-acquired habits of an opulent and luxuriant 

 people, if the resources of a country will admit 

 of a rapid increase, and if these resources are 

 so advantageously distributed as to occasion a 

 constantly-increasing demand for labour, the po- 

 pulation will not fail to keep pace with them. 



1825. 



Since the publication of the last edition of this 

 work in 1817, a third census of the population 

 has taken place, and the results are highly worthy 

 of our attention. 



According to the enumeration in 1821, and the 

 corrected returns of 1811, and 1801, as given in 

 the preliminary observations to the published ac- 

 count by Mr. Rickman, the population of Great 

 Britain was, in 1801, 10,942,646; in 1811, 

 12,596,803, and in 1821, 14,391,631. 



These numbers taken as first stated, and in- 

 cluding the very large numbers of males added 

 in 1811 for the army and navy, give an in- 

 crease of 15 per cent, in the ten years, from 1800 

 to 1811, and only 14^ per cent, from 1810 to 



