# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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From every observation, I was capable of making during
my residence, I could not help thinking, what great
sufferers the Noble Family of Athol must have been,
from the sale of so fair an inheritance, for a sum,
which, did their Rights now exist in the spirit of
the original grant, would not amount scarcely to Two
Years income - The alledged threat, therefore, of a former
Minister of state, as well as the language subsequently
held by an eminent law lord, seem to be equally un-
-generous and unjust -

I was glad to observe, that party
feeling appears fast dying away, and it is highly
probable that, the time is not far distant, when
the Islanders will perceive, that, their real interests
and ~~those of the Ducal~~ ^Family.
are inseparably connected -

Dunkeld, 28^th June 1819