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to be concluded. But in all Middlefex, London, 
Weftminfter, and Southwark included, in which the 
poor are as numerous as in moil places in the king- 
dom, becaufe of the numbers of labouring people that 
flock hither for imployment, there is nearly the fame 
proportion that I have affigned. For from a late fur- 
vey in that diftridt, as I am informed, there are 
87,614 houfes in the whole, and of thefe 19,324 
cottages, and 4810 empty. Which indeed fliews, 
that we are not fo populous, in and near the metro- 
polis, as is commonly fuppofed, and much lefs than 
1 had calculated in my firll letter : For from this ac- 
count, if it be true, there are not above 530,000 people 
in that compafs ; of which, within the bills of mor- 
tality, there die about 25,000 yearly $ that is, not 
lefs than one in 20. 
As to what the Gentleman mentions concerning 
the militia, he feems to be much miftaken. For if 
the proportion be as he fays, that one in 45 is levied, 
this dire&ly proves the number of people in England 
and Wales to be about five millions and an half, ac- 
cording to my calculation ; becaufe the electors or 
balloters are the fencible men, or thofe able to carry- 
arms. And if the whole levy be 32,000, then 45 
multiplied by 32,000 will give 1,440,000 for all the 
fencible men in England. But Dr. Halley has clearly 
lhewn, that the fencible men are one quarter of the 
whole people, children included ; and therefore, four 
times 1,440,000, or 5,7 60,000, will be the whole 
number of the people ; which is nearly what I have 
made them. 
And thus, having feen how he has eftablifhed his 
numbers in oppofition to me, let us now, in the next 
place. 
