Ch. ix. in England (continued). 443 



the first period 13 per cent, and in the second 

 141. The increase of England and "Wales exclu- 

 sive of Scotland appears to be almost exactly the 

 same ; particularly in the second period, whether 

 we estimate it from the females alone, or from the 

 whole population, with the proposed allowances 

 for the army and navy, &c. a proof that these al- 

 lowances are not far from the truth. At the same 

 time, it should perhaps be remarked, that if, on 

 account of the war, during the greater part of the 

 period from 1800 to 1821, there must have been a 

 greater portion of the male population destroyed 

 than usual, the increase of the whole population 

 ought not to be so great in proportion as the in- 

 crease of the females ; and that if such an increase 

 appears, it is probably owing to too great a num- 

 ber of males having been added to the resident 

 population for the army and navy, or to an influx 

 from Scotland and Ireland. 



The numbers above-mentioned, and the rates of 

 increase, have been stated as given by Mr. Rick- 

 man in the Preliminary Observations to the Po- 

 pulation Abstracts. But in the former part of 

 this chapter, I assumed on what appeared to me 

 to be sufficient grounds that the first enumeration 

 was not so correct as that of 1811, and it is pro- 

 bable that the enumeration of 1811 is not quite so 

 correct as that of 1821. In this case the rates of 

 increase in the two periods will not be so great 

 as above stated, but still they will appear to be 

 very extraordinary. 



According to the assumed estimate the popu- 



