# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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public menaces, contumelious language, and
representations to His Majesty's government,
from which arise consequences highly injurious
to the peace and welfare of the Island.

That during the whole period of time which
elapsed between the extinction of the proprietory
government, in 1765, and the year 1791, the in-
sular Council was composed, and now of right
should consist of those officers alone whom the
Crown appoints: that there cannot, in your
Petitioners' humble apprehension, exist a greater
solecism in politics, than a claim on the part of
a subject to obtrude members on his Sovereign's
Council; yet that, in the latter year, the Bishop
of Sodor and Man, who owes his appointment
to his Grace, and the Reverend Vicar-General,
who holds an office not merely by the nomina-
tion, but at the will and pleasure of this Bishop,
presenting themselves as members of Council,
were admitted. That since that period, the
Archdeacon, and other new members, ecclesias-
tical and civil, whose votes are equally or still
more objectionable, and the majority of whom,
holding offices at the pleasure of the Crown, or
of subjects, cannot, as your Petitioners appre-
hend, be viewed as fit persons to exercise legis-
lative functions, but being under his Grace's in-
fluence, have successively been by him placed in
that Council; the votes of these persons, toge-