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(one, that he is much your friend, and the 
other that I have particular obligations to 
‘his { ather) T have a generall one, which 
s likewise avery strong thducenent: 
zt universal good character which I find 
he has, even among people that scarce 
commend any man. If make him no com- 
pliment when I say, that [have heard the 
vain commend him for his modesty, and 
the drunkard for his temperance. And 
aman in these days must have excellent 
qualities indeed, who gains the esteem of 
the world, without complying with its 
vices and follies;—-I am, with all truth, 
most heartily, Dear Si, 
Your affectionate and 
obliged Servant, 
A Pore. 
My humble service to Mr. Richard Caryll, 
who, I hear, is with you at Fiaden. 
Lo Mr, Caryll, jun. at Minden. 
Tuesday. 
Tr your ladyship shall be at home this 
evening, I shall take it as a favor to 
bring my mother to wait on you. If not, 
I could be very glad to wait on you my- 
self in the morning. Methinks I have 
less of your company than any body else; 
and I have besides, a favour to beg of 
you for Mr. Vernon and myself. Tam 
truly, Madam, Your most faithful and 
most humble Servant, 
A. Pore. 
Lo the Right Honourable the 
Lady Mary Wortley. 
DEAR SIR, Sunday. 
My Lord Bishop* was much concern’d 
at missing you pay he desir’d me 
to ingage you and myself to dine with 
him hits day, but I was unluckily prain- 
gag’d. And (upon my telling him I shou’d 
carry you ouc of town to morrow, and 
hop’d to keep you till the end of the 
week) he has ‘desir’d that we will not fail 
to dine with him the next Sunday, when 
he will have no other company. 
I write you this to intreat you will pro- 
vide yourself of linnen and other necessa- 
ries sufficient for the week: for, as I take 
you to be the only friend I have, that 1s 
above the little vanities of the town, I 
expect you may be able to renounce i 
for one week, and to make trial how you 
like my Tusedlum, because I can assure 
you it 1s in no less yours, and hope yo’ul 
use It as your own country villa, the ensu- 
ing season. Tam faithfully yours, 
Lo the Kev. Mr. Berkley, A. Port, 
Gerard-street , 
* Atterbury. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Smn, 
ERMIT me to offer you a few ob- 
servations on the short Statistical 
Statement of the Kingdom of Sweden, in- 
serted in your last Magazine, page 481, 
Vhe extent of that country which ig 
there stated to be 13,565 square miles, 
without mentioning whether they be 
English, German, or Swedish miles, hap- 
pens to be incorrect every way. The 
best Swedish writers on this subject, as 
Swen Lagerbring, in his Swea Rikes Stats- 
kunskap, Stockholm, 1784: and) EY Tus 
neld, im his Geographie bfwer Konunga- 
riket Sweri ige samt darunder hirande 
Lander, fifth edition, Stockholm, 1793, 
state the extent of Sw den at from 6,200 
to 7,000 Swedish square imiles ; and more 
recent authorities have fixed it at 6,900 
which is probably nearest the truth, 
Now 6,900 Swedish square miles in the 
proportion of 1022 Swedish, to sixty- 
nine English geographical miles, gives 
45,732 English square miles, and.in the 
same proportion to fifteen German geo- 
graphical miles, only 9,938 German 
square miles. The greatest length of 
Sweden is about 160 Swedish miles, and 
its greatest breadth seventy, which in 
English miles gives about 1,060 miles for 
its greatest length, and 418 for its great- 
est breadth. 
With regard to the population of Swe- 
den, it cannot be rated higher than three 
millions. Inthe year 17#1, it amounted 
to 2,229,661. In 1772, to 2,584,261: 
In 1781, according to Mr. Coxe, in bis 
Travels, ‘fifth edition, vol.iv. p. 119, to 
2,767,000; consequently within the space 
of thirty years, the nureber of its inhabi- 
tants had increased 551,361, or a fifth 
part of the whole population. Suppos- 
ing, therefore, that the population of 
Sweden had continued to increase in the 
same proportion during the last twenty- 
s1x years, it would give us nearly the num- 
bers stated by your “correspondent, or ra- 
ther 3,244,846. Butas the war with Russia 
in 1789, and many epidemic diseases, 
particularly the simall-pox, have caused 
great havoc among the inhabitants of 
Sweden, and as that’kingdom has lately 
lost the’ province of Swedish Pomerania, 
and the island of Rugen, with a popula- 
tion of about 120, 000 individuals, the 
present population of Sweden cannot be 
rated higher than 3,050,000, of winch 
number there are, 
Borsbapland yy jen a(n 7,000 
| ETRE SM AR eg 898,000 
Sweden Proper. . 2,145,000 
3,050,000 
Thus 
