# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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cil; the offices under which they or some of
them claim and have been admitted to seats and
votes there, being held not only by the appoint-
ment, but at the will and pleasure, as the Keys
understand, of different subjects.

In 1805, after certain proceedings before the
Privy Council, to which the Keys were not,
though they asked it, made parties, and of
which therefore they pretend to no accurate
information, his Grace made his fifth, and most
important application to Parliament. Alleging
inadequacy in the price paid forty years before,
for the extinction of his Proprietory-Rights, he
required for the benefit of himself and his family
the perpetual appropriation of a portion of the
insular revenues. The Keys, viewing this stale
demand, as not only in every respect unfounded,
but that it was peculiarly unjust when attempted
to be saddled on the Island, resisted it in both
Houses of Parliament.

Though supported by many eminent states-
men, they were no further successful than in
rescuing their own funds from his Grace's grasp.
His claim to a sum equal to one-fourth of the
gross receipt of the insular customs, now con-
stitutes a charge on the consolidated fund of
Great Britain.

In the course of his Government, his Grace
has assumed the powers of the Crown, in nomi-