# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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insolvent, this Appeal was resisted by his Creditors nominally,
but the undersigned has every reason to believe, that if the
truth could be ascertained, the original Plaintiff was the
tool of a Party opposed to the Noble Duke, the Lord Bishop and
Clergy; and that among their number, it is possible there
may have been some who sat as Judges to determine
the issue of the late Appeal; and he is authorised to draw
this conclusion from the circumstance of there being
one amongst their number (M^r John C Gelling) who was one
of the Advocates employed by the late John Christian, and by
his Creditors subsequently to enforce the penalties for the
alleged Libel

In further adverting to, and illustrating this subject,
your Memorialist begs leave to state, that upon receiving
the Advertisement from the said John Aitken, being equally
the friend of both the Clergymen implicated in the said
unhappy misunderstanding, he strongly urged the expe-
diency of letting the matter drop; and with this feeling earnestly
remonstrated against the admission of the Advertisement
on the ground that it would keep alive unpleasant feel-
ings between both parties, which would otherwise die away; and
the undersigned ventures to suggest with all deference to the learned
Judge, that had his Honour, in his charge to the Jury, given him the
benefit of this suggestion, which was proved in evidence, thereby ac-
quitting him from every feeling of malice, such verdict would
not have been obtained

Your Memorialist, under the foregoing circumstances, consider-
ing himself to have been in some degree the victim of the Party op-
posed to the Noble Duke, to the Lord Bishop, and the interests of the
established Church in this Island, looks forward with some degree
of confidence for support in the cause he has humbly and con-
scientiously espoused; and that he shall be exonerated from the
ruinous expences inseparable from this Prosecution

In drawing up this Statement your Memorialist has
endeavoured to confine himself to mere matters of fact, which
although from the very nature of the confederacy, he would have
great difficulty in proving, the circumstances connected
with and inseparable from the transactions, must be

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