# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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compromise of their public functions; and they
apprehend that the public attempt on the part
of their Governor to vilify their House, and deter
its members by loud menace (not only public,
but private and personal, as they are prepared
to show) from the performance of their duty,
stands on widely different grounds. As regards
the public, his Grace's conduct remains unex-
piated, and unexplained, even if this 26th No-
vember, 1821, were the one day to which his
Grace meant to allude, among many days on
which they have had to witness similar ebulli-
tions of his wrath.

On the occasion of a charge of perjury,
brought against an individual who was factor to
his Grace, and to his Right Reverend Nephew,
proceedings had been taken by the acting Attor-
ney-General, and the case brought for trial in
the usual manner before one of the Deemsters,
when the individual in question was acquitted. A
person favorable to him was employed to print the
trial: nothing appears in it from which the slight-
est blame can attach to the prosecutor or judge.

In November, 1821, his Grace, who was not in
the Island during these proceedings, sent to the
Acting Attorney-General, requiring his attend-
ance in his Grace's House. After several affront-
ing personal interrogatories, his Grace severely
reprehended him for his conduct, and enquired