410 
3666, which feems to have exterminated 
the plegue. The diftrift within the bills 
of mortality has been gradually extended, 
and, befides London and Weftminfter, 
now comprehendsa large population upon 
the tile of the out- parifhes. : 
5. A tew parifhes, now forming part 
ef the metropolis, have not yet been taken 
«mto the bils of mortality. The rapid 
increafe of the population of this divifion 
fhews how rapidly London increafes in 
extent, though its population dces not 
increafe fo faft as that of the kingdom in 
general. In 1700 the metropolis eon- 
tamed almoft aneighth part of the inha- 
bitants of England and Wales, in 1750 
above a tenth part, and at prefent rather 
Je's than that proportion, 
6. Some objeétions may perhaps be 
made to the accuracy cf the l:mits of the 
metropolis aflumed in tne Enumeraticn 
Abitrac ; it may therefore be proper to 
obferve, that within a circle extending 
eight miles around St. Paul’s Cathedral, 
the total population, including the afore- 
faid addition of cne twenty-fitth part, a- 
mounts to ope million and thirty thoufaud 
perfons. 
The many inquiries and difcuffions 
which have taken piace concerning the 
population of the metropolis, have deter- 
mined the deaths unregifiered at about 
§,000 annually, and the regiftered burials 
of the lait. five years average at 24,c00. 
Nine hundred thoufand divided by twen- 
ty-nne thoufand gives the annual morta- 
ity at one in thirty one. In the year 
3750 it appears to have been one in twen- 
ty-three 5; but it is not wonderful that the 
extenfion of the population over a iarger 
fpace fhould have had this falutary ef- 
fect. 
—— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
REMARKS on” the WRITINGS of LORD 
BACON, tranfiated from the LECTURES 
of M. GARAT, PROFESSOR of META- 
PHYSICS i# the NORMAL SCHOOLS 
of FRANCE. 
ry HE firt of the inventors of the analyfis 
ai of the human underftanding, and un- 
dcubredly the fir in genius, as well as 
in date, is Lord Bacon. Scarce had he 
formed his firftt ideas cn the faculties of 
the mind, and on the means of dire&ting 
the exere fe of them, when it feemed that 
nature intreduced him to the revelations 
of a genius fuperior to mankind, and 
laced him in the midit of the {ciences 
and of the learned as their univerfal legif- 
tator, and the fovereign of their empire. 
Garat’s Remarks on the Writings of Lord Bacen, 
[ Dec. I; 
All his expreffions and his ideas breathe 
that air of grandeur which announces the 
man who comes into the world in order 
to change all opinions, and to regenerate 
and revife the whole circle of the iciences< 
In his firft work De Dignit ate © Augmentis 
Scientiarum, he embraces every fubjedt of 
human knowledge, as if every branch of 
learning were equally under his demi- 
nion. He introduces new divifions of 
the feiences which ferve to illuftrate their 
progres, and points out new methods of 
improvement which will enlarge their 
{phere. He ereéts, in the midit of the 
ages of hterature, of fcience and philofe- 
phy, a tribunal of cenfure, before which 
he {fummons and brings forward every 
thing that has been imagined and wrirten 
in every age of'the world. He feparates 
truth from error ; and while he juftly efti-- 
mates what has been done, he traces the 
outlines of the vafter plan which remains 
to be accomplithed. He notices the de- 
ceitful paths in which mankind has, been 
led aftray, and he fhuts them up for ever ; 
he defcribes and opens new paths on 
every fide; and, as he exprefles the idea 
himfelf, in a flyle glittering with imagery, 
which adds to the iuftre of reafon with- 
out diminihhing iis accuracy, he bears 
no refemblance to thofe ftatues which are 
erefied cn the roads, and whieh point out 
with their fingers the route which 
paflengers ought to follow, and are them 
felves mute and immoveable. When 
he difcovers a new way, he is the firft 
to enter on it himfelf; he takes the firtt 
fteps, which are by far the moft difh. 
cult; he foeaks to the travellers whofe 
progrefs he directs; and when he fepa- 
rates from them, he mftruéts them how 
they are to procced when he is no longer 
by their fide or at their head. In his 
fecond work, which might be expected 
to be fuperior to the foregoing, becaufe 
it is the character of true genius to be 
continually improving,—in bis Novam 
Organum, his views became fo extenfive, 
that they may be confidered as untverfal 5 
in this work, he does not follow the {ci- 
ences one after another in order to lay 
down particular rules for each feparately, 
but he embraces thofe general principles 
wich muft become the laws and lights 
for all the {ciences combined together. 
“*¥ fhail not aé&, (fays-Bacon -himielf) 
like. thofe travellers, who, being defirous 
of vifiting aud examining a temple, which 
had been defignedly darkened, in order 
to appear more venerable, employ them- 
felves in walking with a lamp in their: 
hands 
