A detailed calendar/finding aid to Home Office file HO 98/66, listing 170 documents spanning 1796–1805. The papers document correspondence between the Lt Governor (Alexander Shaw, later Cornelius Smelt), the Duke of Atholl (Governor-in-Chief), and successive Home Secretaries regarding defence, smuggling, Irish strangers/refugees, impressment, military affairs, and constitutional disputes over gubernatorial succession. Highly relevant to understanding the post-Revestment governance of the Isle of Man and political tensions between Atholl and successive administrations.