£603.) 
have appeared to a majority of thofe to 
whom they were addrefled, as blafphemous 
in the higheft degree, and were probably 
the caufe of fome of the perfecutions 
which fell upon the Chriftian church? 
Tite man who pulled of his hat to a ftatue 
of Jupiter, hoping to be remembered for 
his compliment fhould his godfhip come 
<< into fafhion” again, had a right notion 
of the chronological and geographical na- 
‘ture of piety and impiety in the eftimation 
of mankind. Seat Bi " 
| What is the inference from thefe obfer- 
vations ?——+That no one fhould engage 
at all in religious ‘comtroverfy, without 
having brought his mind into fuch a ftate, 
as to bear tranquilly the utmoft freedom 
ufed by his opponent againft perfons or 
doétrines which hehimfelf may deem moft 
facred——and that fuch a word as bla/- 
phemy, which’ in ‘fact implies a décifion 
of the very point in queltion, can have no 
place in fair and fober difcuffions of theo- 
logical topics. “Your’s, &c. 
' , : ~ ORTHOPHILUS; 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, agit: 
Seafaring friend of mine, who has 
\ frequently vifited fome of the towns 
on the coat of Portugal, was lately re- 
marking to me, that blind people are un- 
commonly numerous in that country; and 
that frequently their organs of vilion do 
not thew the ufual-figns of being extin- 
guihed, but preferve apparently their na- 
tinudre.  * sceuithin 
_ fam _ induced to make mention of this 
circumftance in your publication, on ac- 
count of its extenfive circulation, with a 
view of having the opinion of fuch’ of 
your correfpondents as may have refided 
in Portugal; and thé motive for fo doing ‘ 
is _faggetted by the following curious 
Welth proverb ; 
<¢ Tri gelyn fyz i’r golwg, 
Gwin céc, a mér mog, a mug.” 
Thatis: > 
Three foes there be to the fight, 
Red wine, and marrow of fwine, and fmoke, 
Our prefent habits of living in Wales 
do not afford opportunities to recognize 
but one of the things mentioned as hurt- 
ful; and I know of no voucher for the 
deleterious qualities of the other two, be- 
fides the above proverb, and which is the 
__Featon for laying it before your readers. 
‘ There mui have been fome caule, real 
or imaginary, for the origin of the adage 
in queftion ; but it appears very fingular, 
that red vine thould have been the theme 
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107 
of any old faying preferved among the 
mountains of Wales. I remain, Sir, ~ 
+H 3B Pap AO EEO GIO, CEC: 
Fan. 12, 1803. MEIRION. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
OESERVATIONS 0” the RETURNS MADE 
PURSUANT f9 ‘‘ a# ACT for taking cz 
ACCOUNT of the POPULATION oF 
GREAT BRITAIN, and of the INCREASE 
or DIMINUTION thereof.” — ; 
SHE aét direfted that a general enu- 
meration fhould be made on the roth 
March, 1801, in England and Wales, 
and in Scotland as foon after as poflible. 
‘The fummary of the enumeration appeared. 
to be as follows: | 
Perfons. 
InEngland e ° 353315434 
— Wales ‘ 2 5415546 
— Scotland . ° 1,599,068 
— Army and Militia > 198,355 
— Navy and Marines . © 126,279 
—— Merchant Seamen , 3445558 
== Convicts ; s 1,410 
% d SERS} 
Total 10,942,546 
The total population of Great Britain 
is fuppofed to exceed the above-number,as 
from fome parifhes no returns were re- 
ceived. 
’ The number of houfesin Ireland has 
been nearly‘afcertained, by the collection 
of the hearth-money tax, from which it 
has been computed that the population of 
that part of the United Kingdom fome- 
what exceeds 4,000,000. 
The ‘iflands of Guernfey, Ferfey, Al- 
derney, and Sark, the Scilly iflands, and 
the [fle of Man, were not comprifed in the 
enumeration. The total population of 
thefe iflands has been ufually eftimated at 
80,000 perfons. 
On thefe grounds, with a moderate al- 
lowance for omiffions in the returns, 
the total population of the United King- 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, appears 
to be as follows ; 
sit Perfons: 
England and Wales 5 8,872,980 
Scotland ° ° ° 1,599,068 
Treland : * 9 4,000,006 
Iflands of Guernfey, &c. $0,009 
Allowance for omilfions - 795454 
14,629,402 
Soldiers ‘ 3 4 198,351 
Sailors . ° ° ° 270,837 
Convicts ° : 4 1,410 
Total 15,100,000 
The abftrac&ts of the regifters of bap- 
tifms, burials, and marriages, ail concur 
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