POPULATION OF FRANCE.-The following list is extracted from the catalogue of the French towns, given at the head of the Annaires, published at Paris

for the 11 of the Republic.

year

The population of each town, included in the vast circumference of the French Republic, is set down in a table which occupies several pages; but it is evident, even from this abstract from it, that the population in many of them is given by guess, and not from actual enumeration. It is supposed that the popu lation of Paris is over-rated, and that the actual number of inhabitants does not exceed 500,000; but, be this as it may, we may assure ourselves that as the French government has devoted its attention to this subject, each year will bring the catalogue nearer the truth. Why may not our almanacks contain an account of the population of each city and town in the United Kingdom?

LONDON. A general bill of all the christenings and burials, from Dec. 15, 1801, to Dec. 15, 1802.

Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls 1189- buried 1305.

Christened in the 17.parishes without the walls 4716-buried 4219. Christened in the 23 out parishes in Middlesex and Surrey 9429-buried

8878.

Christened in the 10 parishes in the city and liberties of Westminster 4684buried 4977.

BIRTH.

At Bromfield House, Clapham Common, the Lady of William Wilberforce, Esq. M. P. of a son.

DIED,

On Tuesday the 16th Nov. at the advanced age of 70, Dr. Allen, of Bury, in Lancashire: a man of profound erudition and unaffected piety. The fortitude he displayed during a tedious and painful illness, and the manly dignity with which he met his approaching dissolution, were just indications of a truly good man. He was one of the last of that name of the family at Broughton in Lancashire. On Thursday, 25th Nov. at his house in Dover street, Edward Hussey Montagu, Earl of Beaulieu.-His lordship was in ill health for several years previous to his decease, and his death was owing to the decay of nature, he being in his 82d year. By his lordship's death, a princely fortune goes by will to distant relations, &c. The bulk of his estates, it is supposed, are bequeathed to Mr. Hussey, of Golden-square. Mr. Montagu, his nephew, who is now in the East Indies, will possess the estates at Ditton Park. A natural daughter is said to be handsomely provided for; and £. 200 a year has been settled on an old servant, who was 25 years in his lordship's service. At his chambers in the Temple, in the 84th year of his age, Robert Aldersey, Esq. of Aldersey Hall, Cheshire, a Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, a Commissioner of Bankrupts, &c. On Monday morning, Dec. 6, in the 82nd year of his age, Mr. Roger Kemble. This gentleman's name will always be memorable in dramatic history, on account of those talents in his offspring, which have so eminently contributed to give lustre to the English stage. Mr. Roger Kemble, very early in life, ventured upon theatrical boards. He married Miss Ward, the daughter of Mr. Ward, a cotemporary with Quin, on the London stage, and who afterwards became the manager of a very respectable Provincial company of performers. By this lady, who has the misfortune of seeing her venerable associate in life drop into the grave before her, he had a numerous train of children, to whom he gave all the advantages of education which it was in his power to bestow, and whom he had the pleasure of seeing arrive at an height of fame and fortune, by the fair exertion of industry and genius. On Monday the 15th Nov. at Kendal, George Romney, Esq the celebrated painter. Lately, at Edinburgh, Mr. Woods, Comedian. Mr. Woods was originally bred a printer, with Mr. Woodfall, so much celebrated for his publishing of Junius; but his love of the drama induced him to embark in that generally precarious life, which to him, however, has been a source of profit, as well as pleasure. About the year 1768 or 1769, as we are informed, he joined an itinerant company, at Southampton, where his abilities, though very young, seon commanded respect. In the year 1771, he made his entrée on the London boards (Hay-market), in the difficult, and what in the theatrical phraseology is termed, uphill part” of Mahomet. Soon afterwards he came to Edinburgh, where he has ever since remained, except one season, when he was at York. In sentimental comedy, his merit was of the first rate. He was a capital tragedian, in many characters of which he never had his equal there, and, we believe, few any where else, particularly lago, Glenalvon, Macduff, Velasques, Edmund, Beverly, Sciolto, Tamerlane, Dumont, Siffredi, Sempronius, Clytus, the Ghost in Hamlet, &c. At Harwich, the well-known John Robinson, Esq. in the 76th year of his age. The Right Reverend John Butler, D. D. Bishop of Hereford. John Hunter, Esq. an East India Director. Lady Dundas, Relict of the late Sir Laurence Dundas, and mother of Lord Dundas,