POPULATION

The présent state of population may be easily seen by the account of the number of people in this Government, taken aboat a twelve month ago (*). There is great reason to believe this Colony bas been upon the decrease in this respect, for near twenty years past ; the wars which they hâve been almost constantly carrying on ; the strictness with which marri âges within certain degrees of consanguinity were forbidden, except by dispensation , the obliging strangers inchned to engage in that state, previously to prove their not being mart'ied before, and the prohibition of intermarriage between Protestants and Roman Catholicks, were so many bars to the propagation of the species ; thèse dilîiculties are now, in a good measure removed ; the men are an active, strong, and healthy race, the women extremely proliQck, and in ail human probability the next twenty years will produce a vast increase of people.