[370]. Political Survey of Great Britain, 1774.
[371]. Cf. Chalmers, Estimate, p. 4, Pref. p. cxxxviii., and John Howlett’s Examination of Dr. Price’s Essay (Maidstone), 1781.
[372]. Cf. Macaulay, History, ch. iii. 137.
[373]. Observations, supplement, p. 366. Cf. Malthus, Essay, App. p. 519. Arthur Young, France, p. 409. The whole subject will be considered later in connection with Scotland.
[374]. See Observations on Smuggling, 1779.
[375]. But see the caveat in the Registrar-General’s 44th Report (for 1881), p. vi.: The price of wheat and the marriage rate do not always vary inversely.
[376]. In the same way the returns to the Board of Agriculture at the end of the century are full of (not quite disinterested) praises of enclosures as an encouragement of population.
[377]. Lecky, Eighteenth Cent., i. 261, 479 seq. Restrictions on the sale were successfully adopted by Pelham in 1751, at the time when the question of depopulation was coming to the front.
[378]. An unsafe presumption. See below, Bk. II. ch. ii., &c.
[379]. E. g. inoculation.