National Debt, at Lady-day 1702, f. 10,066,777, 64. first funded 1711, £.9,471,325, 86. in 1714, £. 50,644,306. 135. 61d. 87. at the acceffion of Geo. II. more than 50 millions, 110 Dec. 31, 1738, L.46,314,829, 119. Dec. 31, 1749, £-74,221,686, 119. the intereft reduced to 3 and 3 per cent, 1750, 120. nature of it explained, 139. in 1775, -135,943,051, 155. in 1783, .212,302,429, 173 unfunded debt at that time, £. 18,856,542, 174 ftate of, at the end of the wars of 1764 and 1784, com, pared, 176, in 1785, £.239,154,880, 179. a finking fund of 1 million eftablished for the difcharge of it, 179-80. Navigation Act, the principle of the act introduced in 1381, 24. Navigations, Inland, advantages of, 147. the great attention paid to them fince the Revolution, 147. Navy of England, in 1581, 72,450 tons, and 14,295 mariners, 40. feamen registered in London in 1732, 21,797, 41. -the bounty given by different kings for building large fhips, 42-3 ftate of in 1660 62,594 tons 1575 - 69,681 1686 101,032 1695 112,400, 66. comparison of the English and French feets in 1693, 67in 1701, 261,222 tons, 16,591 failors, 88-9 afterwards, in Q. Anne's. reign, 273,693 tons, 16,422 failors, 88. ftate of, at various periods in that reign, 89. at the acceffion of Geo. I. 103. state of, at various periods in that reign, 103. Nay Navy of England, ftate of, in 1749, 1754, 1760, 129. additions made from 1775 to 1781, 157. ftate of, in 1792, 252. Newfoundland Fishery, comparative state of, in 1764-5, with 1784-5, 168. Philips, Erafmus, his state of the Nation, 105. Plot, whether one exifted in 1792 and 1794, Ded. xcv. Poor Laws, originated in the reign of Eliz. 36. Poor Rates, at the end of the reign of Ch. II. £.665,302-a☎ given in to parliament 1776, £.1,556,804, Pope, A. wrote on the diftreffed state of England in 1738, Population of England, the influence of plenty of provisions, 2. ill effects of the conquest on, 4—5• civil war and peftilence alfo greatly affected it, 8-11. obfervations on the ftatute of labourers, temp. Edward III. 8. half the inhabitants of England died in the plague of 1349, II. number of people in England and Wales in 1377. 14. the numbers of people in the principal towns, 16-17. the tax paid by moft of the principal towns in 137716-17. Edward III. raised 100,000 men to invade France in 1360, 18. fuch great armies no proof of population, 19. various circumstances of depopulation, 19. the advantage to population by the diffolution of monafteries, 31. the number of fighting men in England in 1575, 37. in 1583, 1,172,coo-the number of inhabitants, 38. communicants and recufants in 1603, 2,065,498, 39. Conformifts, Non-conformifts, and Papifts, in 1689, 2,599.7°6, 50. the evidence of parifh regifters confidered, 51. houses in England and Wales in 1665, 1,230,0001695, 1,300,000, 51. Population Population of England, number of inhabitants, according to various calculations on the number to be allowed to each houfe, 55-6 7,000,000 inhabitants at the Revolution, 57-8. the quick railing of armies no proof of, 58-9. fuppofed by fome to have decreased from the Revolution, but the contrary fhewn, 73-4. an uncommon demand for manufactures caufes an apparent decrease of population, 78-79. in the reign of Q. Anne Great Britain contained 2,025,000 fighting men, 83. various temporary causes of a decay of, 121. a want of labourers a proof of profperity and popula tion, 121-2 encouraged by the free British Fishery and the Society of Arts, &c. 123-4. by turnpikes and navigation, 124-5. an increafe, proved by a comparison of the duties on foap, candles, and hides, 128-9 proved by increased exportation, 137. review of the controverfies concerning, 193-7. Gregory King's calculation of the number of inhabitants, according to their claffes, 203. enquiry whether the number of cottages are increased or decreased, 204-7. number of cottages returned in 1759 and 1781, 205. 211-12. progrefs of, from the conqueft to the present time, according to the employment, 212-13. arguments of an encreafed, from the registers of baptifms, 217-18. --no arguments to be drawn from fome counties being faid to have decreased, which is in general owing to the neglect of making accurate returns, 217. law of fettlements detrimental to, 219 increased in Lancashire, within 90 years, more than with the boasted rapidity of the American states, 218. at present more than eight millions, 220-1 Population Population of Ireland, increase in, 221–23. -ftate of the hearth-tax at various periods, from 1687 to state of, in 1672, and at present, 223. Population of Scotland, state of, at the Union. compared with at the Union, the number of people complained of as a advantages derived to it from the Union, 225-6. Poft Office, average revenue, four last years of W. III first four of Q. Anne's war, L. 61,568, 90-1. 1707, 8, 9, 10, average, £. 58,052, 91. 1711, 12, 13, 14, average, £.90,223, 911 revenue of, 1764 and 1774, compared, 152, revenue of, in 1755, 1765, 1775, 1784, 1785, 164. -- revenue of, in 1786 to 1792, 245. Prefs, independent, of more efficacy than penalties, 181. Refloration, its happy effects, 45. Revenue, comparative state of, in 1791 and 1793, Ded. cxv. -changed the maxims of administration, 74. Richard III. King, during his reign the trade carried on Romans, continued in England from 55 years before Chrift to Sailors, the number employed in 1700-1, compared with those Scotland, advantages derived to that country from the Union, ftate of the linen manufactory in 1728 and 1775, 227. improvements in the manufactures of, 231-2. her population, 2245 Shipping Shipping, in 1702, 190,533 tons, and 11,432 failors, 66. 112. ftate of, at various periods, from 1736 to 1751, 117. to 1766, 132. useful regulations of, 150. a comparison of the fhips cleared outwards in 1764, 5, 6, ftate of the fhips cleared outward from 1772 to 1782, comparison of the fhips cleared outward in 1758, 9, fhips cleared outwards at different epochs, from 1749 to of K. William's reign, compared with that of the prefent ftate of that of Scotland before the Union, in 1712, and comparison of the fhips cleared outward and entered in- Sinking Fund, first established in 1716, 100. --- furplus of taxes in 1738, . 1,231,127, 114. ftate of, from 1764 to 1776, 155. the advantages of, 180. former ones established by lowering of intereft, 180-1. of one million, will in fixty years difcharge 317 million, of more importance than the acquifition of the American -- advantages of, by encreafing the circulation of money, how much stock was purchafed by it in eight years, how far Mr. Pitt's finking-fund went beyond Earl Stan- Slaves, at the Conqueft, the fale of them to infidels prohi- bited, 20. |