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CSO/RP/1818/71

Petition of Thomas Carmody, 10 Pitt Street, Dublin, England, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a government post. Provides outline of career as officer in the medical department of the army with active service in Portugal, Spain, France and Waterloo. Having been discharged ‘without any permanent remuneration’, and removed from his native place [Listowell, County Kerry], petitioner appeals for employment ‘in any of the Public Establishments of this Country’.

31 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/72

Letter from Thomas Pope, Under Sheriff, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting appropriation of his conduct as Under Sheriff. Being aware that that the Crown Solicitor has commenced action ‘against one or more of the former city sheriffs on accounts of the convicts’, he wishes to be ‘fully exonerated’ before leaving office as his duties entailed the oversight and ‘management of the convicts transmitted to the county of Cork gaol for transportation’.

5 Feb 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/73

Letter from Richard Cuppaidge, East Hill, Athlone, County Westmeath, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, with observations on the character of Reverend John Farnan. States from his examination, that Farnan ‘is a person of idle and disorderly habits and has been interfering in the clerical duties of the priests at both sides of the water’. Encloses memorial of Reverend John Farnan, Roman Catholic clergyman of the Diocese of Clogher, addressed to Earl Talbot, requesting financial support as he is ‘deprived of the people’s confidence, and…every means of support’ because of circulation of allegation purporting him “to be a spy, sent by Government to Athlone, for some base purpose”’; recites that his name was reviled from the pulpit of Dr Plunket, Bishop of Elphin, who informed worshippers “He knew a similar character, sent by Government in the year 1798, to Belfast, who had been thrown over the bridge there and drowned”. Such words, Farnan contends, are likely to bring about his assassination; he does not understand ‘how he has merited such treatment, except for inculcating on the minds of the people, both publickly [sic] and privately…their obligation of being obedient to the laws of the country’.

27 Jan 1818-13 Feb 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/74

Letter from Reverend James Cowley, 7 Gloucester Street, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting to be informed in what manner might be presented the address of the Householders of the City of Dublin, before the His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent. Copy of address also enclosed [no longer extant]. Response to query is provided by annotation on back of letter.

7 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/75

Letter from Thomas Gibbings, Mayor of Cork, Mansion House, Cork, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, with confirmation that annual accounts of city coal yard are prepared and ready for transmission to the Lord Lieutenant, and that clerks ready to swear affidavits. Remarks that accounts are up to date but subject to delay due to death on 21 January of Mr Lumley, the director of the public coal yard.

26 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/76

Letter from Jeremiah and John Murphy, keepers of County Gaol, Cork, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, regarding attire for prisoners in gaol and enclosing estimate of necessities to clothe convicts. Explains that tenders for the supply of items of clothing were sought thought advertisement in local newspapers, and relays ‘the only proposals we received were for caps and shoes’; also that action was taken respecting supply of shirts to the county prisoners, for ‘linen was purchased and the female prisoners (28 in number) are now employed in making a quantity of them: this mode is found both cheap and useful in its consequences, towards the encouragement of industry in the Gaol’.

18 Feb 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/77

Letter from Thomas Elrington, Provost of Dublin University, Provost’s House, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, stating intention not to petition Parliament this year for a grant to the Commissioners of Charitable Donations. Having contributed to a saving in public expenditure, Elrington hopes ‘that when our Funds shall be exhausted we shall again experience the liberality of Parliament’.

6 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/78

Letter from Charles Bushe, Solicitor General, Cork, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting further use of the convict depot at Cork as hospital to alleviate conditions in the city gaol. Encloses addenda from Reverend Boyle Davies, inspector of Gaol, Cork, making claim ‘such has been the Prevalence of the fever in our City that Numbers have been swept off by it, and three Hospitals kept full’; in these circumstances Davies appeals for further use of the depot, ‘either till the fever is entirely removed from the city, or till the new Gaol be built’. Also includes printed copy of Rules and Regulations prepared for use for prisons and houses of correction throughout Ireland, containing seventeen points of instruction; with handwritten comments against each point of instruction under the title ‘Observations [on] How these Rules are Observed in the City Gaol and Bridewell, Cork’.

23 Mar 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/79

Memoranda by Dr Edward Trevor concerning preparation of convicts in prisons for embarkation to colony of New South Wales, Australia. Contains recommendations for provisions on ships used for conveyance of convicts and stipulates that they be ‘in proper order for embarkation, as considerable inconvenience has frequently occurred on account of inattention to the diseases and cleanliness of the prisoners’; notes that as ships are soon to be employed in transportation, letters are to be directed to the High Sheriffs of counties and cities with clear instructions for local inspectors and medical officers as to the fitness of traveling convicts. A postscript further stipulates that ‘The hair of each Convict should be cut short and kept so’.

30 Mar 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/80

Petition of Robert Childerhouse, Ballynoe, Limerick, County Limerick, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of high or chief constable. Having been informed that it is the government’s intention ‘to station a party of Police under the provisions of Mr Peel’s Act’ in Limerick, he advances by way of qualification for the post that he is member of a family ‘who have repeatedly distinguished themselves for their intrepidly and personal bravery in resisting the nightly attacks which have been made upon their Houses and Property by Armed Insurgents’; and furthermore, in 1815 ‘when the Liberties of Limerick was in a state of alarm from the robberies committed in the noon of day by Thomas Magrath the desperate highwayman, who then lurked in that neighborhood, your Memoralists, without arms and unassisted by any other person whatsoever, apprehended this noted felon, who at the time was armed with a loaded Blunderbuss and succeeded in bringing him to justice’.

25 Mar 1818

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