In the state of New-York about half are Dutch, the rest English, Scotch, and Irish.

In New-jersey, a mixture of English and Dutch, with some Scotch and Irish.
In Pennsylvania about one third are English, another Germans, and the remainder Scotch and Irish, with some Swedes.

The States to the southward have a greater proportion of English than the middle States, but in all of them there is a mixture; and besides those enumerated, there are a considerable number of French, and some few of all the European nations, lying on the coast.

The most numerous religious denomination are the Presbyterians; but no one sect is established above another, and all men are equally citizens.] [Footnote 17: For a character of aristocracy, the reader is referred to Rights of Man, Part I., starting at line number 1457.] [Footnote 18: The whole amount of the assessed taxes of France, for the present year, is three hundred millions of francs, which is twelve millions and a half sterling; and the incidental taxes are estimated at three millions, making in the whole fifteen millions and a half; which among twenty-four millions of people, is not quite thirteen shillings per head.

France has lessened her taxes since the revolution, nearly nine millions sterling annually.