which prognostication foretold would involve her in ruin.

We may moreover infer, from those details, that Scotland had more people than ever, more busy people, who enjoyed more capital, and exerted more enterprize and, by those means, they grew rich, while they paid their usual taxes of peace, and the uncommon taxes of war. From all those intimations, we may perceive, that while such a people pursue their accustomed industry, and engage," with usual enterprize, in the adventures of traffic, they may defy the enmity of the foreign dominator, who threatens, with frantic tone, the positive ruin of such a people! That a considerable change has, meantime, taken place in the old habits of the Scotish people, cannot be denied. Many a man now consumes wheat, who eat none before; and many a woman wears shoes now, who wore none before. These happy changes arose gradually, from their becoming more industrious, and more opulent; and of course more able to follow their propensities, without the restraint of former penury, or the vassalage, arising from the will of a master. In Scotland, the use of wheat has increased, and is every day greatly increasing the use of oats, for bread, is decreasing; but the consumption of oats, by horses, is greatly increasing the use of barley, for bread, is diminishing; but, the use of barley for beer, whiskey, and other purposes of brewing, and distilling, is greatly increasing both the cultivation, and the use of rye, are

:

decreasing the use of peas, in bread, is decreasing; but, the appropriation of peas to the feeding of hogs, and other objects of consumption, is increasing the application of beans to the feeding of horses, and of hogs, is increasing. All these alterations, in the modes of management, have arisen, by degrees, in proportion, as the people became much more easy, in their circumstances.

In forming an estimate of the yearly consumption of the Scotish people, we must recollect that, in the last fifty years, all orders of persons have left the country, and live in towns, where they subsist more from the country than upon it. Scotland was found, by the enumeration of 1801, to contain 1,618,300 people. By comparing the population of 1791, with the numbers, in 1801, there appears an increase of 103,304 persons, or 10,330 a year; and, at this rate, it must have acquired 82,640, in the effluxion of eight years, from 1801 to 1809: so as to have carried up the whole consumers of Scotland to 1,701,000: * And, the whole consumption of the people, and of the beasts, in 1801, must have been, exclusive of the legal distillery, 3,582,500 quarters: and the whole consumption of 1809 must have been 3,744,530 quarters. + Such, then, was the consumption of

The whole people of Scotland were found, by the enumeration of 1811, to be, in fact, 1,804,918 souls.

The general totals of Consumption above, may be cast, tablewise, into detail, as under:

the people of Scotland, at successive periods, who consumed, according to their change of habits, and their melioration of circumstances, from greater industry, and more wealth. With Bishop Corbet, it may be said:

"I wish thee well, above all wealth,
"Both bodily, and ghostly, health:

"Not too much wit, or wealth, come to thee;
"Too much of either may undo thee. "

In the Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas. Rye. The Totals. Years Qis. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs.

1801 318,100 830,000 2. 145,220 25,000 176,900 87,280 3,582,500 1809 1334,000 860,000 2,253,500 26.330185,70085.000 3.744,530

Of wheat, there were consumed, in 1801, for bread, pastry, and puddings, 316,650 quarters; and for starch, paste, and other purposes, 1,450: Of the above population, ths consume oats, barley, rye, and peas, at the rate of 9 bushels of oats, 3 bushels of barley, a bushel of rye, and 1 bushel of peas, each person. Of oats, there are also consumed by horses, poultry, and by other animals, 627,664 quarters. Of barley, in addition to the bread, there are consumed, in beer, and smuggled whiskey, 250,621 quarters; by hogs, fowls, and other animals, 3,660 quarters; and for pot barley, 70,000 quarters. Of rye, in addition to what was consumed by the people, there were eat by hogs, poultry, and others, nearly 3,000 quarters. In addition, to what was consumed, of peas for bread, there were consumed in soup, pudding, and by hogs, 8,327. And of beans, there were eat, by horses, hogs, and other animals, 25,000 quarters. It was deemed necessary to submit these specifications, after ascertaining many facts, and weighing many circum-.

stances.