# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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That in consequence of the removal from
office of a Judge, for unknown causes, and
not after a full, fair, impartial, and public trial,
the security of the public that the duties of that
office shall be exercised with independence and
without bias, has received a severe shock: in
all legal questions, therefore, arising between the
Crown and subject, or between the Duke of
Athol and *other* individuals; the respect to be
paid to legal decisions thereon must now be
considerably weakened; inasmuch as the insu-
lar Judges now, substantially, hold their offices
at the will and pleasure of John Duke of Athol,
and the Secretary of State for the Home-De-
partment.

That the displaced Judge, and the then acting
Attorney-General, had previously been by his
Grace severely reprehended for their conduct on
occasion of a charge of perjury brought against
one of his servants. After a fair trial, the man
was indeed acquitted; but it is a remarkable
coincidence, that this acting Attorney-General,
as well as the Judge who tried the indictment,
have since been both dismissed from office with-
out trial; the foreman of the acquitting Jury, an
Irish Solicitor, has been appointed Clerk of the
Council; the junior advocate for the accused
person is now one of His Majesty's Deemsters;
and the advocate who conducted the private in-