# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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intimately known to the Noble Duke & to the Lord Bishop, to whom
it is humbly and respectfully inscribed, and he hopes for such
relief as after due consideration they may deem adequate to
the loss he is likely to sustain

[margin: George Jefferson]

Your Memorialist begs further to state that such is the
narrow-minded prejudice of the Party against him, that they
are using every possible means to injure him in his business
and so far as their influence extends to cause the Printing &
Advertisements of the Public Offices and Institutions to
be given exclusively to the Rising Sun,— and that without
some kind interference on the part of the Noble Duke and
the Lord Bishop in his behalf, your Memorialist is appre-
hensive that they will finally succeed in reducing
him to distress and ruin, and oblige him to leave the
Island under the most disadvantageous circumstances.

It is a notorious fact that neither of the Manks News-
papers pay the expences of their establishments; and it is
only in the hope of annihilating the Advertiser (now in the
absence of its patrons) that the Sun continues to be supported.

Your Memorialist, therefore, humbly solicits the interest
of the Noble Duke and the Lord Bishop in obtaining for him
the appointment of Printer and Stationer to the King's Most
Excellent Majesty— and that he may continue to be
honoured with the Patronage of that Government which
he has always served in his Station with unabated loyalty
and affection

George Jefferson