# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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riſdictions, granted a full and juſt Equivalent
to the Proprietors. The Public paid one
Hundred and Fifty Thouſand Pounds, not for
viſible or corporeal Inheritances, but for
Power, for Pride, for Idea, Diſtinction, Cuſ-
tom of Living, and Habits of Thinking,
Trains of Followers, and the Highland Dreſs.

Let us come to the Bill in Queſtion and try
it by theſe Rules and Examples. The Duke's
Title is inconteſtable; it is founded in ancient
Preſcription, fortified by a Charter of Par-
liament.

It might not, perhaps, have been wiſe for
a King to make ſuch a Grant to a Subject;
it might not be expedient for Parliament to
confirm it: But when ſuch a Parliamentary
Charter has paſſed, neither the granting nor
confirming Powers ought or can, conſiſtently
with the true Rules either of Juſtice or Policy,
violate or infringe the Rights of the Grantee,
without Compenſation or Equivalent.

Whatever Rights are ſaved out of that
Charter, whatever Powers either are not, or
could not be granted to a Subject, the King
may exerciſe as far as his Prerogative extends;
and the Legiſlature may, out of them, mo-
del and frame ſuch Laws and Regulations, as
they