# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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how he had presumed to prosecute his Grace's
agent? He was ordered to send in a written
justification of his conduct by a certain day.
This he could do without difficulty, and obeyed
his Grace. The Deemster himself was next sent
for; after waiting a considerable time, when ad-
mitted to his Grace's presence, he was reproved
for issuing the usual warrant to apprehend a
person high in his Grace's confidence. This
had been executed in his Grace's house, as he
asserted. On the Deemster's denying that he
had done more than the strict line of his duty
required, or that he had the least knowledge of
the place of this person's residence, his Grace
more than insinuated his doubt of the Deem-
ster's veracity; dwelt on the personal insult to
himself; and required from the Deemster also,
a written explanation. On his most properly
declining to give this, his Grace reproached him
with the obligations conferred on him, and par-
ticularly by his Grace's obtaining for him the
very office which he held; and addressed to
him other intemperate language.

Such an instance of interference by the King's
Governor with the execution of the duties of a
public prosecutor and a Judge, on private
grounds, even if they had any foundation, which
his Grace's charges evidently have not, deserves
particular remark. In any future case where