326 
£ 
snimber of workmen, the’ proportion of 
the totals iS, , 
In the fea- -ports—=132 females to 100 
~amales. . 9, 
In manufa&turing towns—113 Si te 
100 males. 
“It is impoffible to believe this preatex- 
cels of females can be natural 3 nor 1s it 
ealy to difcover any other caule "for it than 
that to which it has been afcribed, the 
deficiency of the number of males in con- 
fequence of foldiers and {eamen not being 
included in the returns of the places to 
which they belong ; and as the addition 
of thefe bodies of men brings the numbers 
of the fexes nearly to equality, there 
feems.to remain little doubt on the fub- 
qetk. 
Total males i in Great Britain, — 
by the returns, 4,979,694 
Soldiers, ‘ Ei ; 198,351 
Seamen, é P . 2703837 
Convicts, ‘ > 1-410 
e 5,450,292 
The total of females is 5,492,354, €x- 
ceeding the males by 42,062 ; 3 which dif- 
ference, of leis than tin 100, may be ac- 
eSunted for. by emisrations from this 
country to the aft “and Wet Indies, 
Avmerica, &c. very few females going 
from hence to refide in foreign parts in 
comparifon with the number of mialed who 
are continually leaving the comprty in 
commercial purfuits or from other mo- 
tives.* 
The refult of ‘the enumeration, there- 
fore, ttrongly pioves, that the number of 
maies and females living is as nearly equal 
as ina fubjeét of this nature can be ex- \ 
pected ; and the circumftance of a §reater 
proportion of males being bora, appears a 
wife. provifion for maintaining this eqva- 
Jity,, by providing againft the. Brae ad- 
ventitious mortality among malcs, in con- 
fequence of the cafualties to which they 
are expofed, and particularly from war 
and navigation. I-believe it may not 
enly,be proved, that the opinion of the 
* That the perfons who leave this coun- 
tryto-refide in foreign parts, are ‘chiefly 
apales, may receive fome confirmation fron 
the. enumeratidn of the United States.— 
America receives a great number of the emi- 
grants from Great Britain and other parts of 
Europe ; and accordingly we find the number 
of males iiving theré in 1791 exceeded the 
Feiales nearly as. 104 to fOD 5 and in £8c71 the 
‘evéBurtion was fomewhat greater. 
Further Elucidations of Tha wrote ihe Wifdain 2 
[May 1, 
number of females. living» being greater 
than that of males, is unfounded, but 
likewife that the value of male lives is 
naturally at leaft equal to that of female ., 
lives. 
Mee oe |: CREE 
t —a 
For the Monthly Mapissinbs 
Further ELUCADATIONS of Whe Wrote tbe 
- WISDOM? 
“Qid. Tuy yeadny Tauray Aveyvore 5 ArGoy™ dy 
ATED LAT ay Ob OKodoUBYTES, arog | eyeritn 
Ess xedadny YoVIAG. 
N the Monthly Magazine for Oétober 
and November, 1803 (Vol. XVI. p. 
221 and 305), occurs,a Paper intitled—+ 
Who wrote the Wifdom? This. differ. 
tatjon has incurred the atrention of one of 
your readers, whofe ftrictures have been 
handed round to the author. Will you 
allow {pace for an attempt to: repel the 
more relevant and plaufible of the hoftile 
arguments ? 
“The objector affumes a pater ite Ne e: 
alarm, and {eems anxious to afcertain the 
drift of the differtation. He is ata lofs 
whether to be offended with itas fectarifa 
or as impiety ; but he is plainly predeter- 
mined to eftimate the inference not by its 
logicalnefs but by its tendency. To his 
other charges he might have added that of 
Popery ; tor the obivapus refult of the dif> 
fertation, were the argument to appear 
convincing, would be, that, among all 
Chriftians, the Wifdom muft form a part 
of the books accounted facred, as it dogs 
already in the Church of Rome. 
The ambition of founding a fe&, of 
propagating infidelity, or of reftoring ca- 
tholiciim, did not contitute the diflerta- 
tor’s object. He wifhed to difcufs one of 
the moft curious problems of literary hift 
tory in the appropriate manner. » Every _ 
xpreifion implying an admiffion of the 
Chriftian imiracles was carefully fhunaed, 
Jealt it thould prejudice the philofophie 
world againft. the pealonings Every ex+ 
preflion “implying a rejection of the Carift 
tian miracles -was a.fo fhanned, laft it 
fuould prejudice the Cheiftian world 
againtt the fteafoning.. The main infe- 
rence is compatible ‘with’ belief: or with 
unbeliefs | Its reception might eventually 
infleét fome of. the popular doétrinal 
creeds ; it might alfo inflect fome of the 
theories of infidel f{peculators; but it 
would apparently leave the mals of evi+ 
dence reipeéting the miracles nearly in the 
fame ftate of verifimilitude in which ithas 
always fubiifted. Let us then i 
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