STATISTICS. 
tity of useful labour as at present ; and con- 
sequently, to support the same populatioHj 
a greater number of persons would be com- 
pelled to engage, at least partially, in pro- 
ductive employs. 
The total income of all classes of the 
community, both as arising from capital 
and labour, appears to be nearly as fol> 
lows : 
£. , 
29.000, Q00 
8,500,000 
6,120,000 
15.000. 000 
2,000,000 
1,000,000 
20.500.000 
3,000,000 
11.250.000 
14.100.000 
5.000. 000 
2,200,000 
1,800,000 
600,000 
8 . 000 . 000 
2,000,000 
2,400,000 
£. 132,470,000 
From rent of lands... 
From rent of houses 
Profits of farming, or occupation of land 
Income of labourers in agriculture.. 
Profits of mines, canals, collieries, &c 
Profits of merchant shipping and small craft 
Income of stockholders 
From mortgages and other monies lent 
Profits of foreign trade 
Profits of manufactures 
Pay of army, navy, and merchant seamen 
Income of the clergy of all descriptions 
Judges and all subordinate officers of the law i 
Professors, schoolmasters, tutors, &c 
Retail trades not immediately connected with foreign trade or ^ 
manufactures S 
Various other professions and employments 
Male and female servants, 
If this statement, the total of which is 
corroborated by the produce of the in- 
comeor property tax, is not far from the 
truth, it will not be difficult to form a 
similar estimate of the total national ca- 
pital, fiz. 
£. 
Value of the land, at ?8 years purchase 812,000,000 
Value of houses, at 20 years purchase 170,000,000 
Manufactories, machinery, steam engines, &c 20,000,000 
Household funiture 42,500,000 
Apparel, provisions, fuel, wine, plate, watches, and jewels; > 4o^o00,000 
books, carriages, and other articles 
Cattle of all kinds 90,000,000 
Grain of all kinds 10J500,000 
Hay, straw, 6,600,000 
Implements of husbandry 2,000,000 
Merchant shipping 12,800,000 
The navy 6,000,000 
Coin and bullion • • 24,000,000 
Goods in the hands of merchants, &c 16,300,000 
Goods in the hands of manufacturers, and retail traders 20,000,000 
£. 1,272,800,000 
In the year 1795, Mr. Pitt estimated the 
total landed property at 750 millions, and 
personal property at 600 millions, making a 
total of 1350 millions. But even from the 
above more moderate statement, in which 
most , of the articles are probably taken 
rather below than above the truth, it ap- 
pears that, notwithstanding all the new 
wants which refinement -and fashion have 
introduced into the general mode of living, 
and the expensive wars in whieh the country 
has been engaged, there has usually been a 
surplus of the general revenue, which by 
gradual accumulation has raised the value 
of the national stock, or capital, to an 
amount far exceeding any rational estimate 
of it at former periods. 
It is evident that this statement includes 
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