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Statistics. 
STATISTICS. 
I have collected some tables that relate to the statistical 
lacts of Great Britain, France, and the United States : 
some more, some less common ; all of them important 
to persons who know what use to make of tables of this 
kind. They are not complete, nor do I know how to 
make them so ; but incomplete as they are, I have had 
great trouble in collecting them ; and thus collected they 
will be more useful in the neighbourhood of each other, 
than scattered among many publications of partial circu- 
lation. Facts of this kind, furnish the only grounds of 
legitimate argument on questions of statistics and political 
economy. Hereafter, either I or some other person will 
be induced to add gradually to this collection, other 
recent statements as opportunities arise, and thus supply 
the foundations for reasoning on the causes that influence 
variations in the flicts at difl'erent periods. 
The facts that influence, or that demonstrate the nation- 
al prosperity or otherwise of the European powders, are 
greatly interesting to ourselves. We can only reason 
from what we know ; and we may be the wuser if we 
please, for the experience of others, as well as our own. 
Great Britain and France, are now pursuing very differ- 
ent policies, and all the facts that give us an insight into 
the sources of their success or their failure, cannot but be 
of great moment to those, who will take the pains of com- 
paring and reflecting, T, C. 
