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124 RIESBECK’S TRAVELS THROUGH GERMANY.
Souls.
Brought forward 13,900,000
Upper and Lower Auftria, and Styria - 700,000
Carniola, Ukrania, Gorts, and I{tria - 1,000,000
Farther Auftria and Falkenftein - 300,000
Tyrol - - - 600,000
Netherlands - - - 1,800,0c0
Lombardy - - 1,200,000
19,500,000
Twill not infift upon it that this lit is fo accurate as to make it a great violation of
truth, to give round numbers, and ftate the whole at twenty millions ; but I would not
believe in more than twenty millions, if all the privy counfellors in the empire faid it
together.
Tt only requires eyes to fee, that the territories of Auftria are not fo well peopled
throughout as France is. ‘The difference in the fize of the two countries is inconfider-
able. How then is it poffible that Auftria fhould be as well peopled as France (which
hardly contains twenty-four millions) when the greateft part of it has no confiderable
manufactures, and in great part of Hungary and Poland there are not even hands to do
the neceflary work? Agriculture, in however flourifhing ftate it be in a country, does
aot render it as populous as manufactures do. ‘The {phere of the former is contracted,
that of the latter not. You would fill a large tract of country with the men who inhabit
one of our large manufacturing towns. But befides this, the agriculture of Hungary
and Auftrian Poland, which make above one half of the Imperial dominions is not nearly
fo good as that of moft of our provinces. In France the towns are at leaft as full again
of inhabitants as thofe of the Auftrian dominions, and yet the country, take it altogether,
is well peopled. It is only thofe parts of the hereditary dominions of Auftria, that are
German, which can vie with France in agriculture and population.
Some of the data on which the lifts which make the population of Auftria amount to
twenty-feven millions are founded, are truly ridiculous. For inftance, Mr. Schloffer’s
correfpondent will have it that the Auftrian Netherlands contain four millions ; though
the United Netherlands which are fo much larger and moft uncommenly peopled, da
not contain more than two millions five hundred thoufand inhabitants. ‘The circum-
ference of all the Auftrian Netherlands contains, at molt, five hundred German fquare
miles. According to this account, therefore, each fquare mile would contain eight
thoufand men; and as Luxemburg and the northern parts of Brabant are confeffedly
but thinly peopled, the remaining provinces mutt have at leaft ten thoufand fouls in every
fquare mile ; a population, I will venture to fay, not to be met with in any part of Eu-
rope, the environs of London, Naples, and Paris, not excepted. In a journey I made
to Holland, I was affured from good information at Bruffels, that the population of the
Auftrian Netherlands amounted only to one million eight hundred thoufand fouls, and
this is a great deal; as even, according to this ftatement, there will be three thoufand
fix hundred men for every geographical German fquare mile.
The ftatement of the income of the Houfe of Auftria, which Mr. Schlofler gives us,
js accurate as far as it goes, but is not quite perfeé}. He doesnot reckon Illyria, Lom.
berdy, and the Netherlands ; and the exports from Hungary and ‘Tranfylvania are put
rather under the mark, J fancy the following will turn out a pretty < ¢curate account :
14 Bannat
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