# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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the rights of the Crown and people. Owing his
Grace obligation, they cannot be expected to
act with that firmness, nor can they receive from
the public that confidence, which their predeces-
sors, who owed his Grace nothing, deserved
and received. In some previous instances, the
persons who held together the offices of Acting
Attorney-General for the Crown and of Agent
to his Grace have stated the incompatibility of
the two offices, the impossibility of executing
both conscientiously. Both are, now again, in
the hands of the same individual.

\* On the occasion of the exclusion by Act of
Parliament, of foreign grain from importation
into the Island, disorders among the populace
of two of the towns took place, to an alarming
extent. In their ignorance, they attributed this
measure to the Keys, against whom the rioters
expressed bitter hostility. A few of them being
apprehended, were brought by the High Bailiff
of one of these towns before the Deemster.
Whilst a witness was under examination by the
latter, one of the ringleaders named Thomas
Shimmin, started up in Court, knocked down
the witness when giving testimony, struck the
constables, bit the High Bailiff in the leg, as-
saulted the Deemster himself, and finally made
his escape.

\* Oct. 1821.

[margin: [illegible] jury of [illegible] / Bench [?] / Collard [?] / Shimmin [?]]