See above, p. 155. Levasseur makes it twenty-five; Arthur Young, who considers France over-populated by five or six millions, makes it twenty-six (_Travels in France_, pp. 468–9; cf. p. 474). Price had made it thirty. Footnote 341: _Grounds of an Opinion_, &c., p. 12. See below, Bk. II. ch. i. Footnote 342: Census as given in _Annuaire de l’Économie Politique_ (1882), p. 899. Footnote 343: _Political Economy_ (1820), pp. 433 _seq._ Cliffe Leslie (_Mor. and Pol. Essays_, 1879, p. 424) attributes the few births to the very Law of Succession of which Malthus was afraid. Footnote 344: In the country districts at least. On the relation of luxury to trade, &c., see below, Bk. II. ch. iii. p. 268. Footnote 345: _E. g._ by M. Levasseur in _La France avec ses Colonies_ (1875), p. 853. Footnote 346: Appendix to _Wealth of Nations_, note iv. p. 465. Footnote 347: Levasseur, _l. c._ pp. 845, 846 ft. Footnote 348: _Times_, Jan. 1883. Footnote 349: _English Registrar-General’s 45th Report_, for 1882, pp. cii, cvii. Footnote 350: Levasseur, _La France_, _l. c._ Footnote 351: E. g. _Times_, _l. c._ Footnote 352: _Essay_, 7th ed., IV. xiii. p. 474; 2nd ed., IV. xi. p. 594. Footnote 353: 2nd ed., II. ix.; 7th ed., II. viii, ix. Footnote 354: 1st ed., pp. 63, 64. Footnote 355: 1st ed., pp. 65–6; cf. 2nd ed., p. 300, and 7th ed., p. 193. Footnote 356: See below, Bk. II. ch. iv., &c. Footnote 357: The numbers given then were five millions.—Froude, _Hist. of England_, i. 3. Footnote 358: See Hansard, _Parl. Hist._, xiv. 1317. Footnote 359: Not unfelt in 1801. So Arthur Young speaks as if the agricultural interest had not unfrequently regarded the Board of Agriculture as a new instrument of taxation. (_Report on Suffolk_, p. 16.) Footnote 360: In charge of Rev. Alexander Webster. Footnote 361: _Parl. Hist._, vol. xv. p. 69, quoted by Mahon, _Hist. of England_, sub dato, ch. xxxi. p. 39. Cf. Trevelyan, _Early Life of Fox_, ch. i. p. 14. Footnote 362: Dr. Adam Anderson, _Chronological Deduc. of Commerce_, Introd., p. xliii.; first printed in 1762. Footnote 363: See especially _Estimate_ (7th ed., 1758), Vol. I. Pt. II. sect. viii. pp. 186 _seq._ Footnote 364: _Chron. Ded._, ibid. Footnote 365: _I. e._ to the discussion described by Dr. Anderson. Cf. Malthus, _Essay_, 7th ed., p. 164. Muret’s pessimistic paper was printed in 1766. Footnote 366: In his _Political Arithmetic_, 1774. Footnote 367: _Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Britain during the present and four preceding Reigns_, by George Chalmers, F.R.S., S.A., 1st ed., 1782. Footnote 368: _Natural and Political Observations_, 1696. _Apud_ Davenant and Chalmers. Footnote 369: _Primitive Origination of Mankind._ Footnote 370: _Political Survey of Great Britain_, 1774. Footnote 371: