# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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need not be stated. But if his Grace and his
pretended Council, alone, and permanently, are
to dispense criminal law in that Island, in that
event it will probably be found, that those over
whom they have to exercise jurisdiction will
be somewhat reduced in number.

The Keys, when acting for their unrepre-
sented countrymen, cannot but express their re-
gret at finding themselves destitute of all right to
claim from any individual, that aid which their
fellow-subjects of Great Britain and Ireland
receive from their representatives. Unconnected
as the islanders are with the Members of that
Honorable House, still they hope that their case
may be viewed with some favor, from this very
circumstance alone. Without protectors, with-
out influence, they throw themselves on the can-
dor and the justice of the House of Commons,
the constitutional Defenders of the weak and
the oppressed, in every portion of the British
dominions.

THE END.

Printed by A. J. Valpy, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.