# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
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The Bill in expreſs Terms invades this Ju-
riſdiction, and carries the Merits of every in-
ſular Seizure to be determined in a diſtant
Country, by Laws unknown in the Iſland.
All Forfeitures are expreſsly given to the Pro-
prietors.

The Bill not only brings all Seizures to the
Ports of Britain or Ireland, and condemns
them in their Courts, but it gives every Shil-
ling of the Value of ſuch Seizures from the
Lord, though taken on his Coaſts, or in his
Harbours, or his Rivers.

Are not theſe direct Violations of the Right
of the Lord of Man? Do not theſe Proviſions
deprive him of his Property? Does not this
Bill, as far as it goes virtually repeal the Par-
liamentary Charter, and, next Year another
Bill may take away more Rights and more
Regalities.

Precedent will juſtify Precedent, and En-
croachment ſanctify Encroachment, till by
gradual Defulcations, the Lord of Man has
nothing remaining of this great and ſplendid
Poſſeſſion, granted to his Family, but ſo
ſtrong and ſo ſolemn an inveſtiture, but a
naked and onerous Propriety, nothing left
but a barren Sceptre in his hand, and the an-
cient