# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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[margin:] the Lords Commiſsioners of

To the most Noble John Duke of Atholl
Lord of the Isle and Governor in Chief of the Isle
of Man and to the Right Rev^d Lord Bishop of
Rochester, late Lord Bishop of the said Island,
the Memorial of George Jefferson, Printer and
Bookseller of the town of Douglas in the said
Island, is humbly and most respectfully inscribed.

Your Memorialist is now and has been for many
years past a peaceable and respectable tradesman in the
said town of Douglas, and for several years last past has
been the Editor Printer, and Publisher of a certain weekly
Paper called the Manks Advertiser— That your Memorialist
being of a peaceable quiet disposition, inclined from a
principle of rectitude as an English [above line: man] born to support the
legal and constituted Authorities of Great Britain as com-
prised of Church and State, brought with him the same
principles to this Island which he has invariably made
the rule of all his conduct and actions through life— that
your Memorialist is perfectly convinced, that had he taken
the other side of the question, and made the said Paper a
vehicle for conveying public abuse against the Noble Duke
the Lord Bishop and the rights and immunities belonging to
them and to the Church, he might have been exempt from
all liability in case of prosecution for the insertion of any
libellous matter as an indirect communication was made
to him some years ago to that effect

That your Memorialist some time after this period
found a weekly Paper set on foot and established which
completely and effectually espoused the cause of the Party
opposed to the Noble Duke the Bishop and Clergy of the Island
under the title of the Rising Sun, and in conformity to the dis-
position he had manifested through life, your Memorialist
took the opposite course and inserted in his Print (the
Advertiser) not only such articles which he, as the editor,
thought conscientiously just and proper, but every article
transmitted to him by any friend or advocate of the noble
Duke the Lord Bishop and Clergy— taking effectual care

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