# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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tion thus afforded to audacious criminals, they
have escaped with impunity, and the quiet inha-
bitants who have suffered in person, or whose
property has been pillaged or destroyed during
these riots, have never received any redress
whatever.

But this is by no means the single, marked,
instance of his Grace's substituting his own will
for the law. In March, 1822, he caused to be
cited before himself, as presiding in the Exche-
quer Court, two persons charged with *inoculating*
their own, or other persons' children. The pre-
sentment and petition, as this strange proceeding
is termed, gives to the practice the epithets,
"iniquitous and unlawful:" but no law whatever,
then or now, is pretended to exist, forbidding it.
The "Presentment and Petition," however,
prays for "such punishment on each of these
persons, as to his Grace should seem meet." In
vain their advocates represented that they had
violated no law: in the event, they were intimi-
dated; confessed themselves offenders; and
entered into bonds not again to inoculate.
Under the pretence of costs, money was extorted
from each of them; and their names, as delin-
quents, were inserted in printed proclamations,
and posted up in the towns of the Island.

In November, 1821, his Grace, convoking a
meeting of the insular legislature, after some
routine business, directed the exclusion of all