Jn ExtraSi of two Effays in PoJiticarl AririliMeffclrr^;;^* 
cerningthe com^aratwe Magnitude'fy d^c. of hoi> 
don W Paris by Sr. William P?tty Jinigh^ R. S. S. 
The excellent Author of thefe two ElTays, has in feveral 
former of the lame Nature made it appear that 'Mathema- 
tical Reafbning, is not only applicab le to Lines an<^ Ndm- 
bersj but affords the beft means of Judging irr all the con- 
cerns of humane Life. In th^^ prefent he endeavours to 
prove Londcny as it now is, the moft cohfiderable City now 
in being, by fhewing it much to excqed Parisy ( which not 
only the French hut foreigners have afferted to be the chief 
City of Ei^rc?^^. ) both in People, Houfing, and Wealth: 
llie firft by comparing the Bills of. Mortality, whereb^ he 
finds that th^ . People bf Lc?^^:?;? are as many as thole Of F^^^^^^ 
zndRouep^put togather. The fecond by compareing the 
number of Houfes, which by the Chimny-Books are found 
above 8occo in Londony whereas a great Authoi: among the 
French J ( \^^ho feldome, faile to magnifie theil' o^vn jthrrtgs,^ V 
reckons but 5COC0 Hoiiles in Paris. As to; the tlul'd'/ ro; 
wit the WealtJb, he conceives that tte*ei5 yet a itit^Gh kct2^l 
ter dilproportion, there being no compkrifon between m^^ 
for Trade, and befides a good argument ^ drawn from the 
Law-Suites of both places, he concludes' froin tht f ^ris tills : 
of Mortahty, that two 'yths oithQ Vto^l'f^ o^Pai^s^^^^ 
that they cimfe rather to die in Hofpitals, . main lig fe ar 
their own Charges ; and that a third of the wl idli 'People 
of that City, die out of the moft wretched Hofpitall of L'- 
Hojlel Dieu\ wheras at London there dies fcarce.on^ in" fiftie 
in our Hofpitals. Hereupon in the fecond ElTay';' oui' An-; 
thor extends his Charity to thofe poor wretches,^ fBewing 
how by a reafonable expence, 5000 perfbns might be there 
faved ferJnnumj who die for want of good aocommoda- 
tion. The whole is lb dole writt, that it will not bare Epi- 
tomizing^ wherefore I rather recommend it to -the Curious 
who cannot but be fatisfied therewith. , An 
