LONDON. 
murders had been committed. The grave was then filled 
with quick-lime, and the (peilatoi's very quietly difperfed. 
During- the whole procellion all ranks of perfons who were 
prefent conduced themfelves with a folemnity rarely wit- 
n filled in the eaft part of the town; and, until the body 
was lowering into the earth, hardly a whifper was to be 
heard in the llreet. Not a (ingle accident happened, 
though the crowd was immenfely great. Williams is bu¬ 
ried clofe to the turnpike-gate in the Cannon-(treet road. 
The clofe of the year was unfortunately d.iftinguilhed 
by difalters at fea arifing from (terms, of which the royal 
navy partook in a full proportion. On the night of Dec. 
4th, the Saldanha frigate of 32 guns, the Hon. Capt. Pa- 
kenham, was loft off Lough Swiliey on the northern coaft 
of Ireland, and every foul on-board perifhed. One man 
alone got to land, but in lb exhaufted a Rate that he foon 
expired. 
A dreadful gale in the German Ocean, on the 24th of 
December, was the occafion of a much more ferious lofs. 
The Hero, of 74 guns,. Capt. Newman, with tile Grafs- 
hopper Hoop, Capt. Fanfhavve, which had foiled on the 
18th from Wingo Sound, witli the Egeria and the Prince 
William armed (hip, and a convoy of 120 fail, encountered 
tremendous weather after leaving the Sleeve; and, being 
feparated from the reft of the fleet, were in company on 
the 23d, together with about eighteen of the convoy fleer¬ 
ing fertile fouth-weft. A heavy fquall of fnow and fleet 
coming on, the Grafshopper loft fight of the reft, and got 
■upon a fand-bank, whence (he (Lifted into deeper water 
and anchored. In the night the Hero was perceived firing 
guns, and burning blue lights; but when day broke 
flie was totally difmafted, on her beam-ends, lying upon 
the Haak-fand, oft' the Texel-ifland, the crew all crowded 
together on the poop and forecaftle. Shehoifted a flag of 
truce, and fired a gun, and foon after fome (mail veffels 
were feen plying out of the Texel to her afliftance; but 
the violence of the wind, and a flood-tide, rendered all their 
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exertions ineffectual; and the went to pieces, not a (ingle 
perfon efcaping to tell her tale ! The Grafshopper, after 
encountering much danger, was carried into (he Texel, and 
her crew made prifoners to the fquadron of Adm. de Win¬ 
ter, who treated them with great humanity. Several (hips 
of the convoy (bared the fate of the unfortunate Hero. 
The Baltic convoy had previoufly, in the month of No¬ 
vember, undergone fome fevere fterms while yet in and near 
the Belt, by which feveral were driven on-fnore, and came 
into the hands of the Danes. The convoy was tinder the 
care of admiral Reynolds, on-board the St. George of 98 
guns, which fuftered fo much that (lie was obliged to cut 
away all her malts. She finally left the Baltic, with the 
Defence, of 74 guns, Capt. Atkins, and was proceeding 
homewards; when, on the morning of the fata! 24th of 
December, they were both ltranded on the weftern coaft 
of North Jutland. The Defence firft took ground, and in 
half an hour went entirely to pieces, all her crew being 
drowned with the exception of five feamen and a marine, 
who got to (bore upon pieces of the wreck. The St. 
George immediately let go her anchor; but, in bringing 
up, took the ground abaft. It was impofiible to aflift 
them from the (bore; and all the boats that were hoifted 
out were driven from the (hip, one excepted, in which- 
about twenty men attempted to.fave themfelves; but it 
upfet by the (hip’s fide, and all were drowned. Eleven 
of the crew only got on-fiiore on pieces of the wreck 5 
and, when the laft of them left the St. George, on thw 
afternoon of the 25th, the admiral, and captain Guion, 
commander of the (hip, were lying dead befide each other 
on the quarter-deck, as were alfo more than five hundred 
of the crew. Only about fifty remained alive, whole cries 
were heard till it was dark; the enfuing night terminated 
their ftifferings. With thefe (hips were loft nearly 1400 
men, who, added to thofe loft in the Hero and Saldanha, 
form a greater diminution of Britilh feamen than has oc¬ 
curred in fome of the mod glorious naval battles. 
Comparative Statement of the Population of Great Britain in the Years 1801 and 1811 ; ordered by the Houfe of 
Commons to be printed, Jan. 17, 18x2. 
Males. 
Females. 
Total, iSox.l 
Males. 
Females. 
OO 
O 
Increase. 
England - - - - 
Wales - - - - 
Scotland - - - - 
Army, Navy, &c. 
3 , 9 8 7,935 
257,178 
734,5s 1 
470,598 
4 , 343,499 
284,308 
864,487 
8 , 331,434 
541,546 ! 
1,599,088 j 
470,598 I 
4 , 555,257 
289,414 
825,377 
640,500 
4 > 944>!43 
317,966 
979,487 
9,499,400 
607,380 
1,804,864 
640,500 
1,167,966 
65,834 
208,180 
169,90* 
Totals 
5,450,292 
5 > 49 2 >354 
10,942,646 
6,310,548 
6,241,596 
12 > 3 5 2 > 1 44 
, 1.611,882 
Of London in particular. 
London (City) - - 
Weftminfter - - - 
Borough - - - 
Holborn Diftrift 
Finfbury Diftriffc 
Tower Divifion - - 
Surry Divifion - - 
Nliddlefex Divifion 
Males. 
Females. 
Total, iSor. 1 
Males. 
57,062 
74 , 53 ° 
28,579 
96,264 
44,262 
86,748 
64,219 
34,177 
Females. 
59,693 
8 7,543 
32 , 59 ° 
127,815 
52,383 
125,121 
81,346 
46,770 
Total, 1811. 
116,755 
162,077 
61,169 
224,079 ■ 
96,645 
2x1,869 
145,563 
80,947 
Increase. 
70,986 
26,761 
7 9/P 3 5 
33,585 
77,366 
47 U 99 
27,364 
82,286 
29,924 
101,787 
39> 68 3 
94,6 1 9 
59,83! 
35 U 9 1 
153,272 
56,685 
1 80,822 
73,268 
171,985 
107,330 
62,555 
8,805 
4,484 
44,257 
23,377 
39,884 
38,233 
18,392 
Totals 
362,296 
443 , 32 ! 
805,517 
483,781 
615,323 
1,099,104 
177,432 
The above ftatement for the city of London includes the 
whole cf the 105 pari fixes within the boundaries. The 
population of the city has not increafed within the laft 
ten years, becaufe its limits are fixed, and a great num¬ 
ber of lioufes are yearly converted into warehoufes, &c. 
In the ellimate for the Surry-diftriff, twelve parilhes are 
included, viz. Chriftchurch, Lambeth, Newington, Cam¬ 
berwell, Putney, Ciapham, Wandfworth, Rotherhithe, 
Streatham, Batterfea, Bermondfey, and Richmond.—The 
Middlcfex parifhes are Kenfington, Chelfea, Fulham, 
Hammerfmitli, Chifwick, Ealing, Edmonton, Tottenham, 
Enfield, Harrow, Twickenham, Staines, and Uxbridge. 
This account, therefore, w ill be obferved to take in many 
places remote from the metropolis, The population of 
the latter alone, reckoning the connected buildings called 
London, may be eftimaired at 945,06S.—By the return of 
population for Scotland, it appears that Glafgow now con¬ 
tains 108,830 inhabitants, and confequentiy is, in point 
of population, the fecond city in Great Britain. Edin¬ 
burgh contains 103,143, and is the third; after which 
come-Manchefter and Liverpool, the former 98,573, and 
the latter 98,371.---The figures given above in the column 
of Increafe are not to be fully relied on, becaufe in the 
year 1801 the returns were very defective, owing to the 
apprehenfion of a poll-tax. 
According to the tables publifhed in tire Almanac of 
the French Board of Longitude, the population of the 
French empire amounted at this time to 43,937,144 fouls. 
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