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    ing to the numbers of those already settled . Ev ^ ry thing was in incessant motion , so that , upon a scale of any extent , to ascertain such a fact seems impossible . It could have been no xbott than merely a rough estimate , unworthy of being the basis of any

    system . Franklin was full of fancy and a great speculator . The father of Franklin had seventeen children , thirteen of whom were married j how many of the descendants of the elder Franklin are now living ? I suspect not any great number ; few are named in Dr . Franklin ' s will .

    16 . It may be fairly questioned , whether a small population , in any given country , can exclude the occurfence of famine . According to Humboldt , famine frequently and very fatfclty occurs in South America , where ttilltotls of fertile acres invite the

    inctafttry of the inhabitants , but remain untouched , a * rd where the population bears no proportion to the mesrrrs of subsistence , if we measure that by the productive power of the land . We will auppoSe , at this moment , a popuhtfon in England of only one million , arid th&t only a quarter of the soil was in a state of cultivation , should the

    cW > ps fail , famine would certainly enaue . Grain is a perishing cofnmoiJrty , and will never be raided greatly beyond the ctemand of each current year , ftr no man will dig the earth , in order to lay up tfee corn to waste : it will fellow then , that famine will be as likely to occtir where there is a small ,

    as a large population , provided that io productive seasons the population can be fed . The result of fhfe observation seems to be , that the land will ttever be tilled , except there be months to consume thfc produce , and that < feaths , by flaming eafrnot be efceitttte ^ , ** t *> n the occurrence of years of

    scarcity , by the smallest population ; and &at , thetefbr ** , a population caftftot fefc attended with # ny inconvenience * tf ton tto itn > M « ude , until it exceed the Sttypfy from the sbit , in years of an ** fc * b $ egOod produce , the land betog Rivaled to ita utmost limit . I wish "tfs flem&rlt to be seriously weighed .

    17 . In the cities 6 ^ Mexico there are oetweeti twenty and thirty thousand Jfcggars on the streets , ( Who , ttke the ^ aataroni , in Itrily , live without ^ m-Pl * ym «« nt >) a stete Whic % is fbur tilriaj w larg ^ ^^ | | Fr ^ ce When under

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    Napoleon , and which contains not one seventh part of the population . This shews what governments may effect in the promotion of human misery , when the principle of population bears not upon it . New Spain has enjoyed a peace of three hundred years , find in some of its provinces , there are not three people for a square mile ! HOMO .

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    Ignotus on the Ignoti and the Controversy on Infant Baptism . Sir , Dec . 2 , 1817 . SUPPOSED , till I saw your last I Number , that I was the only one of our family who had yet occupied

    any of your pages . But the Ignoti have been always very numerous . Their works were contemporary with the era of printing , or rather preceded it ; and since that period they have appeared , in various countries , on every question of public interest .

    My learned kinsman has now come forward , seemingly in self-defence , on a subject , if not of the highest , yet certainly of considerable importance . No Christian , io any degree worthy of the name , can find himself in domestic life , without desiring to

    perform , and not to misunderstand , his peculiar duties . He ought , I think , to be especially cautious , when invited to comply with a custom which claims to be a positive institution of revealed religion , and to hesitate till he can answer , at least to his own

    satisfaction , the serious questions , What mean you by this service ? And , Who hath required this at your hands ? Were these questions to be answered on the authority of human judgment * I know not whose to which I should

    more readily defer , than to that of your Correspondent who dates frorft Essex House . I canriot agree with my kinsman to regard , for a moment , his able opponent , as reduced to the necessity of handling a weapon like the tielum , imbelle of the unfortunate Priiu / n

    ox of wielding it with the powerless effort of tii at royafl senior . I rather contemplate the author of the ** Plea /' not thinking of himself mare highly than he ought to think s but justified by his well-earned and often-felt poleimc reputation as entitled , even if unsuccessful in the present contest , today of his alleged reasons for cbtaqf > fyiag With thfc XHttrfom of b £ be-sprinktinto >

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page 723, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/27/