A General View of the National Income and State of Society, in England and Wales, according to Mr. Greg. King's estimate,

19. Vagrants, gipsies, common prostitutes, and criminal offenders in prisons and at large 222,000

20. Paupers included among the class of labourers who only earn part of their subsistence, the deficiency made up by parishes to the amount of

21. Persons, included in all the above descriptions of families, who have money in the funds or otherwise, either as trustees for orphans, minors, and charitable institu tions, or on their own account

SIMILAR VIEW FOR 1803, BY P. COLQUHOUN, ESQ. L. L. D.

50 7200,000

960,000 19,200,000

68,890 2,104,000

136,500 8,088,000 Z

400,000 Z

466,500 17,494,575

75,000

87,750

2,220,000

4,267,000

5,055,955

Vol. II.

(1 Niles's Register, 22.)

General results-Collected from many authorities.

POPULATION.

In G. Britain, including the army, navy, convicts and seamen in registered vessels, by the census of 1801,

Persons employed in agriculture (England, 1805) in trade and manufactures do.

1,524,227

1,789,539

In the army and navy (1801) men

469,188

Persóns employed in agriculture in Wales (1805)
Ditto in trade and manufactures

189,062

53,822

In the friendly societies of G. B. in 1803, there were
The population of Ireland, (1801) was, persons
Of 63 marriages only three are found without offspring.
Married couples are, to the whole population, as 2 to 11.
Births are, to the population, as 1 to 28.
Menial servants, ditto, as I to 11 nearly.

674,220

5,496,944

There are 122 cities and towns in Great Britain with

upwards of 5,000 inhabitants each.

EXTENT, SURFACE, &C.

The sea coast of Great Britain is in miles about

1,575,923

56,300

687,618

24,130

- 3,800

The number employed in 1811 is probably about 600,000.

In Ireland there are (Irish acres, 7 yards to the rood)
There are 12 acres to every person in Scotland-near-

ly 10 acres to every person in Wales, hardly 4 acres
to every one in England, and about the same space,
(in English acres) for each person in Ireland.

MONEY, STOCKS, &c.

Specie circulating unknown; but difficult to be had,

12,001,200

333,000,000

Nominal public debt of Ireland (ahout) 75,000,000

Bank of England notes in circulation, Jan. 12, 1810

Of 15 and upwards

Bank post bills

Under / 5

Bank of Ireland notes (Oct. 1, 1803)

Of 15 and upwards 1,769,950 9 112

/ 14,668,640

884,120

5,854,170 $93,936,969

$12,351,364

472,860,000

53,280,000

Notes of private bankers in England estimated in Oct.

Under / 5

1,011,891 7 45

'}}

/ 84,000,000

12,000,000

1810

Notes of private bankers in Ireland

(Oct. 1810)

The whole public circulating paper medium in Great Britain and Ireland, excluding the notes of private bankers in Scotland, of whose business we have no estimate, therefore amount to the inconceivable sum of

The rents of lands in Great Britain

are

- $4570,333,417

Z 27,000,000

119,880,000

The debt for 1812 and 1813, I have already given. T. C.

The whole annual income of the

people (1805) including revenues, resources and earnings of individuals, of every description.

Valuation of all the real and per

[243,000,000 81078,920,000

sonal property in Great Britain 3,000,000,000 $13,320,000,000 Of "Bank Dollars," as they are called, there were

By Charles II. gold and silver was coined to the value of 17,524,105

Whole coinage since the restoration,' A. D. 1660

gold 33,310,832

86,277,500

silver 56,473

gold 22,445,258

The whole receipt of the clergy in England may be

In England and Wales there are nearly 600 livings as they are called, under 501. per annum-of which 1071 do not exceed 107., and 1467, 201. The proportion of the land tax of Scotland, compared with that of England; is as 1 to 14