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Account of Portfinouth. 
(O&ober t 
contraéts, &c. is about three thoufand. teéture is not remarkable for any beauty. 
With other new plans adopted, two Ream” The chapels in Portfea may be confidered 
engines have been lately fet up, one of 
which I believe is on a larger. icale than 
any ever before erected, and about three 
hundred conviéts have been introduced into 
the yard, and are employed in different 
bufinefles. This meaiure is of fuch a 
nature that the policy of it may be fome- 
what doubted.—In 1796, the people of 
the dock, in order to iupply their own 
families with bread and flour at a. cheap 
rate, formed themfelves intoa fociety for 
the purpofe of. purchafing land, erecting a 
mill, bakehoufe and other neceffary build- 
ings. Thefe have been for fome time 
completed, and the plan I underftand 
turns out a. beneficial one. As well as in 
the dock, improvements are carrying on 
in the gun-wharf, which is of late con- 
fiderably enlarged, and the ftore-houfes of 
the viftualling- office have been encreafed. 
‘The land throughout the ifland of Port- 
fea is, as to holding, principally free. 
There is fome leafe-land under our corpo- 
ration, and fome under’ Winchefter-col- 
lege, to whom alfo belongs the reétory of 
Portfea. 
We have no buildings deferving of any 
note in the way of the antiquary ; unlefs 
I take into my account Portchefter- 
caftle, -a hiftory of which, with the ifland 
of Portfea, I learn is in contemplation. 
The church of Portfmouth, with its 
tower, cupola, and lanthorn, may pafs as 
a fiately edifice; but the fiyle of its archi- 
Population of Port{mouth and Portfea, taken under the AG; exclufive of the Armyy 
! Navy, and Militia. 
as neat buildings, and one of them is fpa- 
cious and lofty. Our town-hall is chiefly 
noticeable as ftanding in the way, in the 
midft of our high-ftreet, rendering the paf- 
fage on each fide narrow and inconvenient. 
Under and contiguous is our market-places 
where, though living by the fea-fide, we 
get but a {canty fupply of fifth, and of 
courfe for that little. pay extravagantly. —< 
We havea fair in July, that continues 2 
whole fortnight, the inftitution of which 
muft originally have been ufeful. It is. 
now degenerated” into mere ftalls and 
booths for toys, trinkets, gew-gaws, and 
raree-fhows ; but it ftill forms our jubilees 
and there is a current tale that, wliile it — 
lafts, Portfmouth is a for of fanétuary. 
It extends further than along one fide of 
our High-ftreet, which, during its contt- 
nuance, is a perfect {cence of tumultuous 
revelry, din, hurly-burly, and confufion.: 
If Portfmouth has not given birth te 
/many characters of celebrity, yet there is 
one name conneéted withit, that may claim 
admiration and refpeét: —Jonas Hanway,of 
philanthropic memory, was born here, on 
the rath of Auguft, 1712. 
In regard to views and profpects I thalf 
not now attempt a defeription of them 3: 
Mr. Houfman may have faid enough,” 
perhaps, to give your readers fome idea 
of them. And here I beg leave to con 
clude. Yours, &c. 
Portfmouth, Sept. 8, 1801. W.N. 
Unn | Notof theylnus, 
habit- ij [Employec}fn-trade |preced- {Taverns 
Inhabit- }ed 2.mi- Total of in Agri- }& manu-Jing de- fand. Ale- 
ed hou fes|hovf Males jFemales |Perfons |culture {facture jfcription jhoufes 
ortfmouth 1130* 1 3148 | 4694 | 7839 oO} 958 | 6831 } 114F 
Town of Portfea = |2539f 6794 | 6149 114943 3 | 2294§$]12744§| go 
‘Liberty part ai 
Portfeaorvicinity -|1641]| _..» 4367 | 5017 | 9384} 360 | 1057§] 78648 23 
within the Boro’ J ~ BA 24; 
Guildable part of 4 7 ? Moree’ i 
Portfea or vicini- |} 237 ea 555 525 | 1o6of 195 ge 175 - 
tybeyondtheBoro? J bie 6 
Totaifss4r, "344 118382 133226] — 963 14399 [28264 231 
* High-itreet contains about 15U.. ‘es-——rents of them, and in Broad-{treet, on the Points_ 
generaily, from about 40 to 7ol. per annum=-The generality of the houfes in other parts. 
from about 15 to 3ol. a year. 
+ Fifty-fix of thefe public-houfes are on Portfmouth Point, which is a part of the town, 
that at high-water is intulated, communicating with the other part, by a draw-bridge; and 
where the totalnumber of houfes is about 300, which I fhould fuppofe have a greater num- 
ber of perfonstoeach, thanthe other houfes of the town. 
t Queen-fireet, the High-ftreet of Portfea, contains about 180 houfes—rents in general, I 
fuppoie, from about 30 to 60]. per annumi—In other parts of the town, they may be generally” 
from about 12 to 76]. a year, 
§ There is a miftake of 103, in two of thefe fums, in one or other of the columng, 
j Rents moitly from gote agl. 
