# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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concerned. Hence it happens, that
sometimes from the Poverty, and
Inability of the injured Party, and at
other Times from a natural
Unwillingness to incur an unusual
Expence, Offenders Escape with
Impunity to the Encouragement of
Vice, and the rendering insecure the
Persons and properties of the
Inhabitants. And it is with
additional Concern Your
Memorialists observe, that even in
Instances where such Offenders
have been prosecuted and brought
to Conviction, the ruinous Condition
of the Gaols is such, that they have
not only found means to Escape Justice,
But in Cases where Attempts for
that purpose have proved abortive,
their wretched, and starving
condition (from the want of a legal
and established mode of Subsistence)
has added Miseries to the necessary
Severity of the Law never permitted in
civilized