604 
of the Nile. When Ptolemy Philadel- 
phus employed Softrates te conftruét upon 
this folitary rock the moft celebraved 
light-houfe of the ancient world, it was 


the road leading to it called : 
rour’s, &¢. 
Your’s, 
Fuly 20, 1796. f. 

y _ . ? Try y, 7 ° 
the Editor of the Monthly Magazine- 
7OU doubtlefs will learn, with much 
pleature, that a fubfcription has been 
opened for the relief of the widow and 
five young children of Burns, the § h 
Poet. The following gentlemen have 
confented to act as truftees for the proper 
application of the money whxh may be 
thus raifed: 
Patrick Mriigr, Efq. of Dalswinton. 
Doctor MAxweELt, Dumfries. . 
jJoun Lyme, Eig. Dumfries. 
james FERGUSSON, Ef. of Banks. 
ALEXANULER CunnincHAm, Eig. Edin- 
burgh. 
Mr. Nicor, Bockfeller, London. 
ALEXANDER MUNDELL, Eiq. of Robert- 
Street, Adelphi, London. 
‘There has been already fubferibed' at 
Dumfries, were the Poet refided for the 
laft @ears of his life, Of WAS en Ba: 
At Edinburgh: 64 
Subferiptions are received at the hou! 
of Sir W. Forbes and Co. and Mawns- 
PIELP, Ramsay, and Co. bankers, and 
at the fhops of the bookfellers in Edin- 
burgh; in London, at the fhops of Meffrs. 
CADELL. and Davtres, Nreor, Ep- 
warps, WHires, PAYNE, JOHNSON, 
RIcHARDPSON, HookyHaM, and AR- 
cHES, bookfellers; at Oxford, by Mefirs. 
FLETCHER and Co. and f. 
. 
Mr. 
€ooxe, bookfellers; at Cambridge, by 
Mr. W.H. Lunn, bookfeller ; and at 
Glafgow, by Meiirs. DusLop and WIL- 
gon, and BRrasH and Rexp, bookfe!- 
Jers; and by Mr. MuUNDELB, printer to 
the Univerfity of Glafgow. ~~ 
It is to be expected that many of your 
numerous readers will exhibit on this 
occafion a tribute of ther regard to de- 
parted genius ; and that an age which in 
general affects fo much mentaliliberality, 
will prove it by a bounty that fhall elicc- 
tually ferve thefe diftrefied objects. 
Your’s, &e. 
*. Sept. g, 1796. BENEVOLUS, 
Subfeription for Burns... Pcpulation. 



#6 ber of houfes, according to the report of 
—« [Sept 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SiR, ci in ied 
O* looking over the Hints on the Po- 
pulation of England cand Wales, 
which appeared. in the Firft Number of 
our Magazine, I was rather furprifed to 
nd our rapid decline in this refpeét-fo 
firongly aflerted; particularly as the 
writer, who appears to have taken all 
the facts which he produces in fupport 
of his opinion fram Dr. Price’s Effay, 
mof probably well knew, thac “. Doc- 
tor, after a longand minute inveftigation 
of the fubjeéi, requefted igmight be re- 
membered, that 4s opinion in this in- 


ance was by no means aclear and de- 
cide riétion ; and ‘his ufual 
camdeur allowed, that in continuing to 

mm @coraparifon of the retonttes 
the furve 
ties, it is inferred, that in $7 years th¢ 
number of houfes had decreafed upwards 
of 360,000, their number in the year 
1777 being 952,734. No evidence is 
brought forward to fhew that the popu- 
lation from 77%7.to the prefent time con, 
tinged to declime ; but. from the deftruce 
tiomof the American and prefent wars, it 
is eonfidered as highly probable : during 
the former, however, the contrary ap- 
pears to have taken place, the total num- 
the furveyors in 178, being in that 
year »,005,810 ; from which time to the 
prefent, the Pypalece of the houfe and 
window duties as little indicate a de- 
ereafe of habitations, as that of the duties 
affected by confumpticn do of iphabitants. 
' Etis ftated as the moft alarming cir- 
cumftance attending ‘the fuppofed depo- 
pulation, that it has taken place chiefig 
among the poorer clafs of the people; but 
if the following account of the number 
of hewfes excufed on account of poverty” 
in 1756 and 178 is correét, they in- 
creafed during 25 years nearly 10,000 ; 
the number being in 7756 SES ln 
‘ 178 I—28 4,459... 
‘Fhe increafe of the poor of late years,- 
I believe few ‘perfons will be inclined to 
doubt ; the general increafe of the pafith 
rates, beyond the difference caufed by the 
enhanced value cf provifions, feems 
prove it; and the augmentation of 
poorer clafs appears a more natural and 
certain effect of the enormous debt which 
deprefles the moft ufeful part of the 
community, than the diminution of our 
3 numbers. 

yors of hae and window du-_ 
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