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informed agriculturists, an excellent Steward, 
and a man of great integrity, are not hand- 
some ; and they appear the more censurable 
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in the eyes of those who are well informed 
that Mr. D and Mr. Young differ ex- 
ceedingly upon agricultural subje6ts, and that 
they had a personal difference, some time 
since, at an agricultural meeting of the Bath 
Society. 
We have too much reason to believe that 
the present liigh price of corn, as well as 
butcher’s meat, do not proceed principally- 
from a failure of the last year’s crop, but 
from other causes, which have their origin in 
tlie war in which we are engaged. 
The ill effecfs to the community of an over 
stretched and too far extended paper cur- 
rency were, to a certain extent, pointed out 
by the justly celebrated Adam Smith, in his 
‘ Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the 
Wealth of Nations but tliat excellent writer 
conceived that it was an evil of no great ex- 
tent, and that it would soon ccrrec^d itself, 
because the parties who should exceed their 
