OWING to the difficulty attend returned to Parliament in known that in many counties the re. they are generally fo, in a fmall de account would fall very little fhor were fupplied as it is, however, t Perfons. the estimation of any former perio ations of those perfons who have ing condition; if there be really a Males. view than to criminate the minifter Females. Total. In 1757, it was calculated from the ed to about 7,200,000, and Haut 987,935 4,343,499 8,331,434 the present time; concluding, perh 257,178 284,368 541,546 place between the middle and the 469,188 amply counteracted by the effects o there has been an increase of betwe 1,410 469,188 1,410 years. This would be more fully i4,715,711 4,627,867 9,343,578 registers, which are most authen where divorces are so rare, afford a increase of population. BUT the immediate object of the mote an investigation. I have only of this country has not been dimini at the table before us will be fufficie Hauterive. The marriage regist tracted for a period of fixteen year cept the year 1801 (which could fords an opportunity of comparing of years of peace immediately prec fiderably in favour of the war. rapid increase appears to have take of hoftility, which it is contended m Britain. The average number of is much greater than that of any o have chofen; and there is every would have been still more remarl and 1800, had not very materially B We perceive a diminution of th This must be attributed to the cir always tend to diminish or delay tl fervice, by which many males we the scarcity of grain, which likewif nd Wales, from 1785 There would be much to obferve on this account, unparalleled in the hiftory of nations, if we were fpeaking of the refources of Great Britain in general. But our object was only to fhew that Hauterive has mistaken the nature of those refources, fince he has fuppofed that at the peace there would be an end of them; that he is ignorant of the foundation of Public Credit in this country, fince he has attributed it entirely to the effect of terror and alarm; and that his hopes have been too fanguine, if he has expected to fee the ftrength of Great Britain diminished by a peace with France. k CONTENTS. PART I.-Of the political fate of Europe, before and at the breaking out of the French Chap. I.-How far did the Treaty of Weft- phalia eftablifh a fyftem of Public Law in Chap. II.-How far has the Treaty of Weft- Ruffia England General obfervations PART II.-Since the French Revolution PART III. Of the prefent relations between France and the other ftates of Europe. Chap. I.-General obfervations PAGE 144 152 178 186 216 Chap. II.-France and her allies 266 Chap. III.-France and her enemies 276 Chap. IV. An inquiry into the principal caufes of complaint against the commercial tyranny of the English Firft-The Navigation A&t 295 |