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and then I am not afraid of leaving the merits of
the question to he decided by this test.
Not being acquainted "with any person who has
had the system longer under trial than the
Reverend Gentleman to whom I have before so
frequently alluded, I applied to Mr. Demainbray,
to inform me what had been the increase in the
population of his parish during the last ten years ;
he has very obligingly sent me, not only an
answer to this question, but the increase in every
adjoining parish, to the number of six parishes,
that come in contact with his own: he says,
that any one who will take the trouble of casting
his eye on a map of Wiltshire, will see they are
selected fairly, and merely on account of their
contiguity; and any one referring to the census,
will see the accuracy of the details. *His table
of the population of these parishes is given in
the Appendix, with his mode of calculating their
increase in proportion to their number, or a
per centage on the whole, the only fair method
of estimating their relative increase; I shall here
give only the results. From the year 1811 to
1821 the increase in his parish was considerable,
but it may be in a great measure attributed to a
recent enclosure, a turnpike road through it, and
* See Appendix, No. 9.—The Rev. S. Demainbray's Table.