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mental to that gentleman. I look upon him as a very worthy member of fociety; and I believe him: to be an honeft man. I have not a doubt that his practice has already been of much na- tional utility, and will be of{till more, the wider It is diffufed; even although it fhould not be car- ried on in the moft perfect manner of which it will be found to be ultimately fufceptible; and Ican affure that gentleman, with much. fince- rity, that there is not a man in-the land, not the prefident of the board of agriculture himfelf, nor his ftill more powerful patrop, who will re- joice more in his profperity than myfelf; or who would more gladly lend his aid to the extending his practice as wide, and the rendering it as per- feét, as poffible.— It is perhaps unfortunate, when a plain man finds himfelf forced to come forward. in the genteel circle,—efpecially where fuch per- fon may, by the ill judging partiality of ignorant friends, be induced, from the hope. of benefiting his family, to acquiefce in ftatements that he him- felf would never, perhaps, have made,—even though he be backed by thofe who have the mot powerful influence. For it is not in‘ this nation thatinfluence can altogether fupprefs the voice of

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