| Description | Letter, marked 'Private', from Alexander Shaw (Lieutenant Governor), Douglas, Isle of Man to Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas. Reports that matters in dispute between Duke of Atholl and the islanders are likely to be settled amicably. The duke's claims and allocations have been satisfactorily upheld and the enquiry by the commissioners recently sent to the Isle of Man has resolved doubts raised by former servants and so-called friends of the duke who had been using him for their own ends.
[Alexander Shaw was Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, 1790-1804 (Chronicles of the Atholl and Tullibardine Families iv. 135, 212; Atholl MSS. 48 (5) 26, 123; 65 (9) 26 and (11) 184, 205). The Duke of Atholl was in the Isle of Man c. 24 September - c. 29 October 1791 discussing affairs with commissioners (Chronicles of the Atholl and Tullibardine Families iv. 133; Atholl MSS. 65 (9) 69, 70, 72 et seq.)] |