BRITAIN. 



SUMMARY of ENUMERATION. 



England . . . . 



Wales - . . . 



Scotland . . . . 

 Army, including militia 

 Navy, including marines 

 Seamen, in rsgillcrcd (hipping 



Convicts, on board the hulks - 



Totals 



H o u s i: s. 



Intulilcd. 



By how many 

 familics 

 occupied. 



1^472,870 

 108,05 j 

 294.55J 



1,787,520 

 118,303 

 3*54,079 



1,875,476 a, 269,90: 



Uninhabited. 



5^965 



3'5" 

 9.537 



67.015 



PERSONS. 



M.ilcs. 



3.987.9.5.? 

 257.17S 

 734.581 



'98.3,)' 

 126,279 



144,558 

 1,410 



Females 



T..:.,l. 



4.34^499 8,331,4.54 



284,368 

 864,487 



541.546 



1,599,068 

 198,351 

 126,279 



144.5.5!^ 

 1,410 



5,450,292! 5,492,354 1 0,942,646 



On this enumeration it is obfervcd, that the total popula- 

 tion of Great Britain probably exceeds the numbci- of per- 

 fons fpccified in tiie above fummary, in as much as from 

 fome parifhis no returns were received. From the number 

 of houfes in Ireland, nearly afcertained by the colle<Sion of 

 a hearth-money tax, it has been computed, that the popu- 

 lation of that patt of the unittd kingdom fomewhat ex- 

 ceeds four millions of perfons. It (liould alfo be obferved, 

 that the iflands of Guernfey, Jerfey, Alderney, and Sark, 

 the Scilly illands, and the Ifle of Man, were not comprifed 

 in this enumeration; and that the total population of thefe 

 iflands has been ufually eftimatcd at about 80,000 perfons. 

 On thefe confiderations, with a verj^ moderate allowance for 

 omiflions in the returns, the total population of the united 

 kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland amounts \.oJifteen 

 millions one hundred ihoufaiid perfons ; and befides thefe, its 

 caftern and weflern pofTenions and colonies contain many- 

 natives of the Britifli ifies. On a more enlarged furvey of 

 thefe colonies and fettlements, we may confider their inha- 

 bitants either as fubjefts of Great Britain, or as augmenting 

 its importance by their intimate connexion with it. The 

 mod important of thefe are now in Afia; and in Hindoftan, 

 the nations fubjeft to Great Britain cannot be now calcu- 

 lated at lefs than 40 millions. The acquifition of the Dutch 

 fettlements, the colony of New Holland, and more minute 

 ftations, mull alfo be taken into the account. In America, 

 and what is called the Weft Indies, Canada, Nova- Scotia, 

 Newfoundland, and the more northern fettlements, with 

 Jamaica, and the other iflands, may, perhaps, contain a 

 million. In Africa, the fettlements at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, the iflands of St. Helena and at SieiTa Leone, pre- 

 fent an infignificant number; and Gibraltar is to be regarded 

 merely as a military ftation. However, if we compute the 

 North American ftates, detached from the mother country, 

 at a population of five millions, the united kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Ireland at 15 millions, and our colonies 

 and fettlements at only two millions, we (hall find in the 

 various countries of the globe an increafmg population of 

 22 millions, diffufing the EngUih language and manners to 

 a vaft extent, and contributing in one way or other to the 

 wealth, pow.er, greatnefs, and profpcrity of Great Bri- 

 tain. 



From the above table it appears, that the enumeration of 

 1801 amounts to 8,872,980 perfons for England and Wales; 

 and 10 this number an appropriate (hare of foldiers and ma- 

 riners is to be added. Thefe appear to have been 469,188; 



and if, exclufu-e of them, the total population of the Bri- 

 tifh ifles is 14,630,812, (15,100,000—469,188) about a 

 thirtieth part may be added to the inhabitants in order to 

 afcertain the population of any diftinft part. Accordinn-|v, 

 in the following table, the exifting population of Engknd 

 and Walts is taken at 9,168.000; and the population at- 

 tributtd to the other years, is obtained by the uile of pro- 

 portion, thus : if 255,426 baptifms (the average medium of 

 the laft hve years, deduced from the returns of parifli re<nf- 

 ters,) were produced from a population of 9,168,000, from 

 what population were 152,540 (the baptifms of 1700, given 

 m the fame returns) produced i 



Table of Population throughout the laft Centurj'. 



Upon a view of tliis table it may be obferved, that al 

 though the beginning of the century exhibits a decreafinsr 

 popuiation, the loft number had been regained in 1-20- and 

 fince that time a continual, though irregular, increlfe is ma- 

 mte L It alfo appears, that die population of England and 

 Waes m 1801, compared with that of the beginnina of 

 the laft century, ,s as ;,ooo to 597, or aearly as ten to^fix. 



1 he following table for Scotland is formed in the fame 

 manner; but being founded on a coUeaion of no more than 

 99 parifh regifters, from different parts of the country, it is 

 of much lefs authority. Thefe parilTies contain lefs than a 

 feventh of the whole population. Li Scotland there are in 

 all about 900 panfties. 



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