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LVII. A Letter to the Rev. Thomas Birch,

D. D. Seer. R.S. concerning tie Number
of Ile People of England ; dy Me Rev.
Mr. Richard Fortier, Reaor qf Great
SheiTord 5)1 Berkrbire.

Id e Rev+ Sir, stidaard, no, 9..5 97-

INCE I did myfelf the honour of
writing to you icJalyt.tttybook.
flier has fent me part ii. of vol. clic. of the Trani-
attions in which I find another medium advanced
to deters:Moe the amount of the people in England :
and this is the number of houfes, which pay the
window-tax, and which amount to about 69o,000,
befides cottages, that pay nothing." To this is
;Wed, that tho' the number of cottages be not an-
" curately known, it appsars from the amounts given
in, that MET cannot amount to above 100,000."
Here I cannot but extrefs my concern, that this
very ingenious gentleman has oot Ines a little more
explicit, by informing us, what thefe accounts are,
upon which he builds fo pofitive a conclufion. The
law requires no finh accounts to be debarred in ; and
parilli-officers canoot be accufol of works of fuperem-
gation befides ( which is more to the purpo(e) I am
way certain no fuck accounts have been given in from
this part of the world. On the other hand, in all
p.m of England, which I have feen (and that is.
I think, almoil the whole) the number of cottages
greatly exceeds that of all other houfes, except in
the middle of towns, and fame villages about Loa-
, abom P. 35'. P5ge 827.
Var. Co. Nnn don.

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