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The two former of thefe numbers fhould be mul- 
tiplied by 5, and the latter by 6. The reafon of 
this difference is the great quantity of fervants kept 
in large towns. 
*>°53r°5 2 x 5 = S, a 65, 260- 
374,058 x 6 = 2,244,348 
7,309,608 
By this way of proceeding it appears, that the 
whole number of people now alive in England is 
fomewhat more than feven millions and an half. I 
would not be underftood, as if I meant to recommend 
this as exaCt - r tho’ I am in hopes, that, upon trial, 
it will be found nearer the truth, than any thing hi- 
therto advanced. Neither will I lay any ilrefs upon 
its approaching fo near to the numbers advanced in my 
former letter ; being fenfible, that all the methods I 
have hitherto tried are liable to very great objections. 
Where certainty may be arrived at by a little induftry, 
all hypothecs fhould be defpifed and rejected. 
The militia aCt levies 32,000 men upon the whole 
kingdom and in the weft riding pf Yorkshire 1 in 
45, if my intelligence is right, completed their 
quota. Now if this proportion be applied to the 
whole nation, 32,000 x 45 will give l, 440,000 for 
the number of ballotters ; and this multiplied by 5 
(which, confidering the number of perfons excepted, 
muft be under the truth) will amount to 7,200,000 
for the total of our people. But I dare not build 
any thing upon this computation, as many parts of 
the nation may have heavier quota’s laid upon them 
than the weft riding. 
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