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condition, and would soon measure swords 
with us, having first calculated the extent oi 
power, or combination of powers, necessary 
to effedl our downfal. 
Mr, Young has written much upon the ill 
efFedfs of promulgating the result ot the in- 
quiries made by the Committee of the House 
of Commons ; probably if his pamphlet, now 
before us, was to be considered by neigh- 
bouring nations as coming from sufficient 
authority as to the real state of the country ^ 
it might do more mischief /than the publicity 
of the inquiry alluded to. 
We have in a cursory manner perused the 
second volume of ^ 1 he Communications to 
the Board of Agriculture on Subjecfs re- 
^lative to the Husbandry and Internal Im- 
provement of the Country/ We shall tliere- 
fore at present, trouble your Lordship with 
only short comments upon a few of tiie sub- 
jedls of this prolix publication : for vre do 
pot volunteer the extreme labour of corredl- 
ing and pruning the exuberances of the many 
theoretical communications contained in it. 
