OF 606 parithes defcribed in 
4796.) 
numbers. “The generality of any people 
will fubmit to much inconvenience be- 
fore they ate driven to the determination 
of quitting their mative country ; their 
‘burthens accumulating gradually, they 
feel the effect without diftinguifhing the © 
-cdufe, and frequently afcribe to adventi- 
tous circumftances that accelerating rife 
an the price of commodities, which is the 
inevitable confequerce of a fyfem of in- 
crealing taxation. The tendency of our 
debt; which at prefent is augmenting 
with unprecedented rapidity, :eems ra- 
ther to be the daily introdu€tion of a 
greater difparity between the conditions 
-of the different claffes of tg commana! 
by increafing the wealth of © 
while it diminithes the comforts of 




the 
poor;aud caufing a confiderable alteration 
in their comparative numbers, though 
Siexti £ 2 | . Bt ih 
iehat of the whole may remain nearly the 

fame) or even increafe. Ki 
Your Northumbrian corte pondent, 
B- $24, with much* propriety, ‘declines 
€ntering upon the ftate of the population 
of the country at large. It is a point, 
avhich, except by a general enumeration, 
€an only be determined from the dara 
furnifhed by taxation, produce, or con- 
fumption ; and the fingle inftance pro- 
‘duced of the great depopulation of a once 
confiderable village, though founded on 
the a€tual number of inhabitants at dif. 
ferent periods, might be eafily oppofed 
by correét enumerations of many villages 
in Yorkfhire and other parts, which | : n 
“duced by that ftate of our armofphere 
prove a very confiderable increafe. Even 
this deferted villaze is reprefented to have 
been nearly in its pref mt flate for the 
dai forty years ; and though a more ex- 
tenfive enquiry might have difcovered a 
few fimilar inflances, I apprehend many 
more would have been found that for 
4ome years paft have been, and itill are, 
gyadually tncreafing in numbers, though 
perhaps at the fame time increafing in 
‘poverty. i i 




Sic John 
‘Binclair’s Scatiftical Account of Scotland, 
there are ma ty in which the inhabitants 
are much lefs numerous than formerly, 
notwithftanding which there has been 
upon the whole a very confiderable in- 
creafe. ‘In 1755 they contained 884,981 
inhabitants ; and by accounts taken be- 
ween the years 1790 and 1793. they 
@Mounted to 1,108,522; fo that the in- 
€reafe of fome places had not only coun- 
teracted the depopulation of others, but 
produced an augmentation of 223,541 in- 
habitants, or aout 6000 per annum.— 
“This, however, it muft be obferved, is 
P 
ae 

Population, .. Meteorological Phenomena. 


very much below the natural rate of in- 
creafe in any country, and evinces a 
great lofs of inhabitants from emigration, 
war, and other unfavourable circum- 
tances; for t 


population both of North 
n ritain has been increafing, it 
has certainly been at a much flower rate 
than in any other ccuntries which have 
been leis engaged in war, and where 
from fubfittence being cefier there is more 
encouragement to marriage, and a great.. 
er temptation to induce the natives of 
other countries to remove thither. The 
American States afford an inflance of an 
unprecedented inereafe of population, 
having in the courfe of 180 years doubled 
a meer more than thirteen times. 
y Q r i 
Aden 28. dodo ae 
See 
To the Editor of ibe Monthly Magazine. 
obfervations of M. of Chichefter in 
ny 
hoe ont aioe for July, p.462, uponthe 
halo round rhe motn, led me to the con~ 
f&iderations which ended in the following 
queries ; and it occurred to me that when 
he fees thofe queries, he will find exer- 
cife for a mind which difcovers much 
genius. i ) 
Q. 1. Whether the circle or rings we 
frequently fee round the Sum and Moon, 
are not oceafioned by the refle@tion ef the 
SIR, 
HE 
_eircumference of the earth } 

“2. Whether fuch reflection is mot pro- 
which generally precedes rain 3 
On Sunday laft, the 21% inftant, a 
very large ring was feen for a confider- 
able time round the fun. The fky was 
clear at its firft appearance; in the even- 
ing, clouds appeared inthe S.and S. E. 
toS.W.by S. Yefterday, clouds from 
B,and N. E. lowered eonfiderably, and 
this morning at three the whole atmo- 
{phere was overcaft, and fo continues now 
at nine A. M. 
Aue. 23, 0796. ORIEXS. 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AM a Country Gentleman, and enjoy 
an eftate in Northamptonfhire, which 
formerly enabled its poffeffors to affume 
fome degree of confequence in the coun- 
try; but which, for ieveral’ generations, 
has been growing lefs, only becaufe it 
has not grown bigger. Imean, that 
though I have not yet been obliged to 
mortgage my land, or fell my timber, its 
4H 2 relatives 
E05 
hough it appears that of, 

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