Daily National Intelligencer

POPULATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

During the war of 1756, it was disputed between Breckenridge and Foster, whether the people increased or diminished, and what was their amount; but without any decision. During the colonial war, Dr. Price renewed the same question, but was more successfully opposed; he insisted that there could not be more than 5 millions of inhabitants in England and Wales; his opponents shewed, from very sufficient documents, that there were, in England and Wales, upwards of 8,447,000 souls.

These contrarieties of opinion were at last settled by the parliamentary enumeration of 1801, which, in opposition to the doctrine of Dr. Price, found in England and Wales, 9,340,000 souls; but, did the population continue to increase, during the subsequent war? Yes; as the people continued to multiply during the war of 1756 and 1776, so did they multiply during the war of 1803; for the parliamentary enumeration of 1811, found in England and Wales, 10,150,615. The state of the inhabitants of Scotland, at successive periods, gives the same result; in 1801 the enumeration found 1,608,300 souls in that country; the enumeration of 1811 found 1,805,000. The same observation equally applies to Ireland--the population of Ireland, when the union was formed, in 1801, was supposed to be 4 millions: by the late imperfect enumeration in 1814, it appeared that Ireland contained nearly 6 millions of people.

It is a fact, then, that the people of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland have increased during the late long wars, to 17,208,913 souls, and continue to increase and multiply.