304 Statistics. 
desart. The population, as well as the revenue, are mere sup- 
positions. 
(G) This country appears to have decreased in its population ; 
caused, perhaps, by the dreadful civil wars that have frequently 
ravaged it. Besides, there is much mountainous and barren 
and unproductive land. The revenue is paid in kind. 
(H) Including Ava, Pegu, Malacca, See. Ummarapoota is 
the new capital, but little known to Europeans. The ancient and 
once magnificent cities of Ava and Peru, are said to be nothing 
but heaps of ruins. 
(I) England and Wales, 49,450 square miles ; Scotland, 27,749 
do. Ireland, 27,457. By the census of 1810, England contained 
9,499,408 inhabitants ; Wales 607,380 ; and Scotland 1,804,864, to 
v/hich they add for the army and navy 640,500-— making a grand 
total of 12,552,144. We have not seen an enumeration of the 
people of Ireland — from the accounts laid before parliament, there 
are probably about 500,000 dwelling houses ; averaging them at 
8 inhabitants each, we have a gross aggregate of four millions ; 
which is probably about the true amount. The revenue, as here 
stated, is required for present year 1812, independent of loans. 
It may emphatically be called the la7id of taxation. 
[Arthur Young, secretary to the board of agriculture, than v/hom 
I know no more competent authority whether for knowledge of the 
subject, industry, or talent, in vol. l,p. 283, of his Tour to France 
and Italy, qto. states his reasons for assigning the following pro- 
portions of land to the general divisions of the British Empire in 
Europe. 
England 46,915,933 acres, equal to 73,306 square miles of 640 
acres to a mile. 
Scotland 26,369,695 
Ireland 20,649,961 
99,335,589 or in round numbers 100 millions of acres, 
equal to 156,250 square miles. The calculation adopted by Mr. 
Niles from Pinkerton, is from Tempieman’s Geography, which is 
generally too low. Dr. Grew in the Piiiiosophical transactions No. 
330, page 266, calculates the real contents of England and Wales 
at 46,080,000 acres, which is very near Arthur Young’s estimate. 
Arthur Young and Neckar, calculated France in their time just be- 
ibre the revolution, at 131,722,295 acres, and the population at 
'^,363,074, or 5 acres per head. See i Young’s French Tour, 464. 
ifhe cGmiiiittee of the house o^f commons appointed to enquire 
