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and on the other George Grenville, North, Thomas Orby Hunter, 
James Harris. 
The Atholes after a few years considered the compensation given 
inadequate. They thought the Government had “the fault of the 
Dutch, giving too little and asking too much.” They appealed 
more than once and further sums (annuities) were granted. In 
1825 an Act was passed to authorize the Lords of the Treasury to 
treat for the purchase of the Duke’s remaining interest in the 
Island. The amount awarded by arbitration (in 1829) was 
£416,114, of which the Patronage of the Bishopric and the 
different Advowsons stood for £100,000. No valuation was put 
on the “honorable distinction and service of presenting the Two 
Falcons.” 
A curious anomaly having reference to the position of the 
Athole family was mentioned to me lately by a friend, viz. : that 
though Queen Victoria was debarred by the Salic Law from 
inheriting the Kingdom of Hanover, her subject, Sir Augustus 
D'Este, in the case of that Crown having fallen to his father the 
Duke of Sussex, would have been eligible to succeed him. His 
mother, Lady Augusta Murray, was a member of a Royal 
Family (of Man) and therefore there was, by German law, no bar 
to his succession, although by the Royal Marriage Act it was 
illegal in England. 
