1803:] 
Tre annual amount of the burials, as 
Bolleéted conformably to the Population 
A&, authorizes a fatisfa&tory inference 
of diminifhing mortality in England fince 
the year 17803 the number of marriages 
and baptifms indicates that the exilting 
population is to that of 1780 as 117 to 
x00, while the amount of regiftered bu- 
tials has remained ftationary during the 
lat 21 years; the firft five years of 
which, as well as the laft five years, and 
all the 21 years taken together, equally 
average at about 186,000 per annum. 
Therefore the average duration of life 
in England appears to have increafed in 
the proportion of 117 to 100 ; for tho’ 
the regiltry of burials is certainly deficient, 
no caulecan be aifigned for believing that 
the deficiency has been increafing in the 
lat 21 years. Indeed the progreffive in- 
creafe of population in thefe years, has 
caufed an augmented proportion of young 
perfons ; which citcumitance may have 
contributed to leffen,the proportion of the 
mortality to the population, 
Concerning the Regifiry of Baptifmt. 
. The regiftry of baptifms is deficient 
from the fame caufes as that of burials, 
and from the firft of thofe caufes in a 
preater degree. . . 
- te Many Diflenters of every denomi- 
hation, who ufually bury in the cemeteries 
of the eftablifhed church, do not baptize 
in it. - This caufe alone is fuficient to 
prevent the number of regiftered baptifms 
from approximating to the number of 
births. 
2. Some irreligious perfons do not 
taule their children to be baptized at all. 
This is fuppofed to happen chiefly in the 
large towns. 
_ 3- Some children, whofe parents are of 
the eftablifhed church, die immediately 
after birth, unbaptized; and a much 
greater number who are privately baptized, 
are not afterwards brought to the church 
for public baptifm, and therefore are not 
always regiftered. The praétice of the 
clergy is not uniform in this point, as 
the canon concerning regifters applies 
to chriftenings ; which word is utually 
fuppofed to mean public baptifms only. In 
arts of the county of Northumberland 
it is {uppofed that one third of the whole 
number of baptifms is omitted from this 
caufe ; and doubtlefs in many other coun- 
ties, omiflions from the fame caufe alfo 
take place. 
4. Negligence may be fuppofed to 
@aule the fame proportion of omiffions in 
Montrix Mas. No.i07. 
Produce and Trade of St. Domingo. ie 
the regiftry of baptifms as in that of bu- 
rials. i / 
_§ The returns which could not be 
procured are eftimated at about eight 
baptifms each per annum ; this deficiency 
may be reckoned at 2200 in England and 
Wales. 
_ From all thefe combined catifes of de- 
ficiency, the amount of regiftered bap- 
tifms falls very fhort of the real amount of 
births. _ 
The whole number of baptifms, col- 
le&ted for the purpofes of the Population 
Act, appears to be 6,436,110; of thefe 
3,285,183 males$ 3,150,922 females ; 
fo that the baptifms of males are 10,426 
to 10,000 baptifins of females. The 
whole number of the burials appears to 
be §,165,8443 of thefe 2,575,762 males 5 
2,590,082 females ; fo thatthe burials of 
males are 9,944.10 10,000 burials of fe- 
males. 
It may be inferred Hence, that of 10,426 
males born in England only ¢3944 die at 
home; therefore about one in twenty-two 
dies abroad in the employments of war 
and commerce; a proportionwhich ftrongly 
marks the enterpriling character of the 
nation. | 
(Ta be regularly continued.) 
ee 
For the Monthly Magazines . __ 
Atthentic PARTICULARS of the PRO- 
DUCE and TRADE of the SPANISH PART 
of the ISLAND of ST. DONLKGO.— 
From the French. 
E give the name of Spanifh to 
this part of the Tfland, not that 
it belongs any longer to Spain, being 
ceded to France by the Treaty of Bale, 
but becaufe it fo much differs from 
the French part, that it may well retain 
its former name, when its trade and cul« 
ture come under confideration, _ 
The Spanifh part of St. Domingo is 
fituated between the 17% go’ and 20° 
of north latitude. : 
Its longitude weft of the meridian of 
Paris, extends frem the 7: ft to the 75th 
degree. Allowing its utmoft length to 
be about 80 leagues, and its breadth to 
vary between 40 and 60, it may be com- 
puted to contain néarly 3200 fquare 
leagues. 
Previoufly to the confufions that hap- 
pened in the Spanifh part ot St. Domingo, 
during the colonial war, it contained 
125,000 inhabitants ; 110,000 of whom 
were free, and 15,000 were flaves ; which 
did not amount to 40 individuals for a 
{quare league. 
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