# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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ing laborious public functions without any the
slightest remuneration of any kind. The often-
repeated necessity of either making large pecu-
niary sacrifices, or abandoning the cause of
their country, constitutes a substantive and a
most vital part of their grievances; and if in this
appeal to the candour and justice of your
Honorable House they shall fail to obtain the
final cessation of their grievances, and effectual
protection against these reiterated invasions of
their rights and those of the people of the island;
Then, highly as they appreciate the present in-
ternal frame of government, if brought back to
the *genuine principles* of 1765, happily suited, as
they consider it to be, to the actual condition of
the people; deeply as they would regret its dis-
solution, and decidedly and religiously as they
will for ever abstain from all participation in any
act productive of such a consequence; they
would infinitely prefer witnessing its entire and
unqualified abolition (always including therein
the utter extinction of every the last remains of
the ancient proprietory influence, and the effec-
tual and permanent emancipation of the country
from its existence or revival).—All this and more
they would greatly prefer to the success of the
present encroachments, which in preserving the
mere semblance of an internal constitution,
would leave it utterly inefficient to any salutary