m ENGLAND. 



PopuLATiON....The population of Great Britain according to the 

 returns of 1801, was 



In England .-----_. 8,614,234 



Wales - - - - - ■ - _ _ . 54L546 



Scotland ------- 1,607.760 



Army -. = = .„„__ 198,351 



Navy -----.-„. 126,279 



Seamen in registered vessels - 144,558 



Convicts - - - - - - - „ 1,410 



Ireland -------- 4,000,000 



Total, 15,234,138 



The population of the United Kingdom was estimated, in 1812, at 

 16,552,144. 



National character, manners, customs. ...Englishmen in their 

 persons, are generally weii-sized, regularly featured, commonly fair, 

 rather than otherwise, and florid in their complexions. The women, 

 in their shape, features, and complexion, appear so graceful, and 

 lovely, that England may be termed the native country of female 

 beauty. But beside the external graces so peculiar to the women in 

 England, they are still more to be valued for their prudent behaviour s 

 thorough cleanliness, and a tender affection for their husbands and 

 children, and all the engaging duties of domestic life. 



In their dispositions the English are rather grave and phlegmatic, 

 but not without an occasional mixture of vivacity, as they are perhaps 

 not inferior to any nation in true wit and genuine humour. They 

 are remarkable for a nervous sensioility, which has been considered 

 as one of the sources of those singularities which so strongly charac- 

 terise the English nation. They sometimes magnify the slightest 

 appearances into realities, and bring the most distant dangers im- 

 mediately home to themselves ; and yet, when real danger approaches, 

 no people face it with greater resolution or constancy of mind. They 

 arc fond of clubs and convivial associations ; and when these are kept 

 within the bounds of temperance and moderation, they prove the best 

 cure for those mental evils, which are so peculiar to the English, 

 that foreigners have pronounced them to be national. 



The English nobility and gentry of great fortunes now assimilate 

 their manners to those of foreigners, with whom they cultivate a 

 more frequent intercourse than their forefathers did They do not 

 now travel only as pupils, to bring home the vices of the countries 

 they visit, under the tuition perhaps of a despicable pedant, or family 

 dependant ; but they travel for the purposes of society, and at the 

 more advanced ages of life, when their judgments are mature, and 

 their passions regulated. This has enlarged society in England, 

 which foreigners now visit as commonly as Englishmen visited them, 

 and the effects of the intercourse become daily more visible, especially 

 as it is not now, as formerly, confined to one sex. 



Such of the English noblemen and gentlemen as do not enter into 

 the higher walks of life, affect what we call a snug rather than a 

 splendid way of living. They study, and understand better than any 

 people in the world, convenicncy in their houses, gardens, equipages, 

 and estates ; and they spare no cost to purchase it. It has, however, 

 been observed, that this turn renders them less communicative than 

 they ought to be : but, on the other hand, the few connexions they 

 form are sincere, cheerful; and indissoluble. The like habits descend 



