# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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his interests are at stake, or where his depend-
ants are in danger, the servants of the Crown
are now warned, that the indignation of the
Duke of Athol follows conduct displeasing to
him. With that these two individuals have been
visited. In the case above stated, their conduct
was impregnable; but for other causes assigned,
without any public trial or investigation, each
has been cashiered.

In his capacity of Governor his Grace assem-
bles the insular legislature: this power he has
exercised in a way most annoying to the Keys,
who serve at their own charge. On one subject,
the re-appointment of a Highway-Committee,
within seven days, thrice he assembled them, in
three several and distant places in the island.
On the last occasion, finding continued resist-
ance to his will, that his nephew the Bishop
should be placed on this Committee, his Grace
did not think it beneath him to pour out fresh
invective on the Keys, their mode of election,
and their conduct, which he threatened to repre-
sent to His Majesty's Government. "They
were no more Representatives of the people,
(he said,) than of the people of Peru: they were
guilty of preposterous folly, absurd presump-
tions, unwarrantable paralization." His Grace
the Duke of Athol so far forgot himself, as even
to charge *them* with the attempt to assume