1803.] 
and 1795. Before 1780 the baptifms of 
every year do not appear in the abftract. 
5. Although the beginning of the een- 
tury exhibits a decreafing population, 
the loft number bad been regained in 
1720; and fince that time a continual, 
though irregular, increafe is manifett. 
s- The popolation of England and 
Wales in 1801, compared with that of 
the beginning of the lait century, appears 
in this calculation as 1,000 to 597, or 
nearly as ten to fix. 
The following Table for Scotland is 
formed in the fame manner in every re- 
fpeé&t, but iscf much lefs authority, as 
founded ona colleétion of no more than 
99 parith regifters trom different parts of 
the country. Thefe parifhes con.ain lefs 
thin a feventh of the whole population. 
In all there are about goo parithes in 
Sco Jand, 
Taste of Porutation throughout 
the century. 
SCOTLAND: 
In the Year | Population. 
¥17OO - = = 1,043,000 
E710 i= (ve) 1,270,000 
L2G P= = 1,390,000 
1730 = - = 1,309,000 
1740 = = - 1,222,000 - 
47G@ ==. = ¥,493,000 
1760 - > -..- 1,363,000 
177O- - = 154.34,000 
1780 - - - | 1,4.58,0c0 
17Sh = - 1,475,000 
1790 - = - 1,557,000 
1795- - - 1,669,000 
180k - - - 136525370 - 
The population of Scotland in 1807, 
compared with that of the beginning of 
the laft century, appears to be as 1000 to 
634; nearly as 10 to 6$: but it is pro- 
per to obferve, that a large proportion of 
the aforefaid 99 parifh regifters were re- 
ceived from the manufafturing parts of 
Scotland ; fo that in the preceding Table 
the increate of the population is perhaps 
ftated higher than it would have appeared 
if a larger number of returns could have 
been obiained. 
In the year 1695 poll-tax was levied 
in Ireland 3 and on this occafion it was cal- 
culated that the number of the inhabitants 
was 1,034,000. But the ufual evafion of 
taxation may be fuppoled to have leffened 
the real number confiderably. 
the year 1795 Ireland contained at leaf 
four millions, and fince that time the 
The Population Adi. 
About > 
407 
number has not. increafed. It may not 
be very erroneous to eflimate the popula- 
tion of Ireland at 1,500,000 :n the year 
1700, and at 4,000,000 in the year 
180r. 
If this be granted, the population be- 
longing ‘o the all Britith ifles has increafed 
during the laft century from 8,100,000 to 
15,100,000... 
From the colleétion of parifh regifters 
it is not difficult to compute the increafe 
or diminution of the population of the 
feveral counties, in the fame manner as of 
that of the whole kingdom; but it is 
fufficient for this {abordinate examination 
to ftate the population in 1700, 1750, and 
1801. To the refident population of 
each county for the year 1801, a thirtieth 
is added for foldiers and marineis; for 
though it mutt be admitted, thar a higher 
.proportion of thefe is drawn from the ma- 
ritime and manufacturing counties, and a 
lefs proportion from the midland agricul- 
turai counties, yet the difference is not 
fufficient to affect the approximation 
to the true numbers, in any important 
degree. 
The circumftanzes which have varioufly 
affected the differene counties throughout 
the century, may prevent the following 
‘Table from being accurate. he mode 
of conftructing it, fuppotes that the births 
throughout the latt century have borne 
the {ime proportion to the exilting popu- 
lation, as inthe five years preceding 1801 ; 
and therefore the populauen of 4700 in 
this Table, is pernaps fomewhat tou Jow 
in the counties which have moit rapidly 
increased in the laft half of the century ; 
and, poffibly, fomewhat tv.o high in the 
oppofite cafe. 
Jn the fourth column is fhewn the pro- 
portion of the population of 1801, to the 
medium average of the marriages of the 
lait five years. The fupplement to the 
abfiract of the pariih regilters is taken 
into the account, by pretuming that, the 
average of the marriages in the lait five 
years is a thid of the number of burials 
attributed to each county therein for the 
year 1800. ‘This proportion appearing 
to be true of the whole fupplement, cannot 
be very erroneous when applied to is com- 
ponent parts. 
Befides this addition from the fupple- 
ment, two marriages are added for each 
retury fuppofed to be wanting, 
In the fifth column is fhewn the num- 
ber of regifters from which returns were 
received : and, in the laft column, the num- 
ber of returns fuppofed to be wanting from 
each county*. 
* See Parith Regilter Abitract, p. 449. 
3° COUNTIE 
