STATISTICS. 
Brought over 11,174,500 
Land depastured by cattle 17,000,000 
Hedge-rows, copses, and woods 1,600,000 
Ways, water, &c 1,282,100 
Cultivated land 31,056,600 
Commons and waste... 6,277,800 
37,334,400 
1 ’ 
The number of horses for which duty is 
paid is 1,780,000. Their annual consump- 
tion of food, reckoned by tite produce of 
Acres, is 
' Acres each. Acres. 
200.000 pleasure horses... 5 ... 1,000,000 
30,000 cavalry 5... 150,000 
1,200,000 husbandry 4 ... 4,800,000 
350.000 colts, mares, &c.. 3 ... 1,050,000 
7,000,000 
if these different classes are divided ac- 
cording to the effect produced by their 
occupations, it will be found that the whole 
population of the country depends for 
subsistence, and all the conveniencies of 
life, on the labour of less than one, half of 
the total number ; and the increase or de- 
crease of this productive part of the com- 
munity, and of the etfect of tlieir exertions, 
is the measure of the increase or decline of 
that gradual accumulation of stock which 
The total population of Great Britain, as 
it appeared by -the returns made in 1801, 
including the army, navy, and merchant 
seamen, w'as 10,942,646; to which, if the 
islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and 
the Scilly islands, are added, it may be 
taken at 11,000,000. See Population. But 
it is evident, that the welfare of a nation, 
and its political strength, do not depend so 
much on its numerical population, as on the 
manner in which that population is em- 
ployed; the proportion of productive to 
unproductive labourers of which it consists. 
No accurate account of this kind has ever 
been taken, but the following estimate of 
the different classes of persons who com- 
pose the present population of Great Bri- 
tain, cannot be far from the truth : 
5.000 
18,000 
14,000 
240.000 
130.000 
155.000 
3,500 
6.000 
14.000 
25.000 
40.000 
1,680,000 
50.000 
160.000 
20.000 
5.000 
4.000 
2,000,000 
800,000 
, 150,000 
10,000 
293,000 
2,427,600 
2,750,000 
11,000,000 
constitutes national wealth. In a different 
state of society, however, this division of 
the population would vary considerably ; 
for were not those, who are considered as 
unproductive labourers, employed in their 
several vocations, their duties, or at least 
the principal of them, must be divided 
among those who at present are the effi- 
cient labourers ; who, thus being obliged to 
give up part of their time to unproductive 
purposes, could not perform the same i^uan- 
Nobility and gentry 
Clergy of the churches of England and Scotland 
Ditto dissenters of every, description 
Array and militia, including half pay, &c 
Navy and marines Trf. 
Seamen in the merchant service 
Lightermen, watermen, &c 
Persons employed in collecting the public revenue 
Judges, counsel, attornies, &c 
Merchants, brokers, factors, &c...., 
Clerks to ditto, and to commercial companies 
Employed in the different manufactures 
Mechanics not immediately belonging to ditto 
Shopkeepers 
Schoolmasters and mistresses 
Artists 
Players, musicians, &c 
Employed in agriculture 
Male and female servants 
Gamblers, swindlers, thieves, prostitutes, &c 
Convicts and prisoners 
Aged and infirm 
Wives and daughters of most of the above.... 
Children under ten years of age 
