# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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of the Island, would all at once contradict the
said report, without another person better in-
formed being at the trouble of convinceing him
that he & his colleagues had made an incon-
siderate one. It might perhaps be worth
enquireing into the nature of the intelligence
sent on from hence by the agents of the
English Court of admiralty, formerly M^r
Madam, now M^r Wilson. Knight & the age-
nt of the English Court of admiralty de-
mands 5 p^r Cent upon the amount of the
Sale of Wrecks ~~condemned~~ before the Said
Court.

III^dly Curwen's friends here give out that if it is his opi-
nion if he had no connection with the Isle of man,
that as an honest man, & an independent
Member of the British House of Commons he
must have opposed any farther compensation
being made to the Duke of Atholl for the Sur-
render of the Sovereignty of the Isle of man, as
he was convinced in his mind that a sufficient
one had been made already. It must appear
evident to every candid & impartial man that
The Duke of Atholl wishes only to meet his
opponents fairly upon this their ~~own~~ ground.
Gov^t themselves at the time of the Surrender admitted
that upon an average for ten years backwards