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And if we add to this, the number that is conftantly 
and fecretly drawn from Ireland, for foreign military 
fervice and on the account of religion ; and likewife 
thofe taken from Scotland, for our Regiments in the 
Dutch fervice; all which cannot be lefs than yoo 
yearly, though lome have thought it to be double 
this, we fhall then appear to have loft 7300 annu- 
ally, fince the year 1690. To which if we put the 
lofs of thofe who go from hence to our Colonies, and 
other fettlements, particularly to Jamaica and the 
Eaft-Indies; and, laft of all, the number we have 
loft by the ule of fpirituous liquors ; it will be plain, 
that our whole lofs cannot be lefs but more than 
82 yo annually; which is at moft the yearly increafe 
of our fencible men : And therefore that there has been 
no increafe at all of our people thefe laft 66 years ; 
but rather perhaps a decreafe, though it cannot 
be afeertained with any precilion. And there is no 
avoiding this conclufion, unlefs it can be fhewn, that 
the annual increment of our fencible men is much 
greater than 8250; which feems impofiible, with- 
out proving the number of our people to be more 
than fix millions, and the proportion of births to 
burials greater than any oblervations through Eng- 
land have lately made them. 
And here it is to be obferved, that if there has 
been no increafe during that period of years, the 
people of England cannot be more than y, yoo,ooo. 
Becaufe, when they are computed from the number 
of houfes at the year 1710, they do not exceed 
5,4,67,000 ; and when in my laft letter, I fuppofed 
there might be fome increafe, and gave a calculation 
of it to the prefent time, that, being added to the 
above, 
