# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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House has not acted with perfect and uniform
cordiality; not one of those Governors having
interests apart from those of the Crown and
people. That the appointment to the Chief
Magistracy of his Grace, possessing as he does
interests which lead him to various interminable
claims, was, as your Petitioners take the liberty
of stating their humble opinion, the appointment
of the most improper man in the British do-
minions for that office. That which might have
been anticipated has come to pass. His claims
as Duke of Athol come in collision with his
duties as Governor; of this some intelligible
examples have been submitted in this Petition,
and others might be adduced, if opportunity be
afforded to your Petitioners. Not one man's
estate is there in the island quite free from some
or other of his claims: no sooner is one dis-
posed of than another is started. But your
Petitioners cannot but view it as unreasonable
to expect of them, that at their proper costs they
should bring for decision before His Majesty's
Privy Council, all or any of the public griev-
ances under which their country may be deemed
to labor. The warfare of so many years has
not been sustained by the Keys without in-
convenience. To send them to new legal con-
tests would be to levy a new and intolerable re-
quisition upon twenty-four individuals, perform-