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CSO/RP/1819/214

Letter from Major Samson Carter, Londonderry, County Londonderry, half pay military officer, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting consideration for government employment, either as a chief police magistrate under the peace preservation act, or under the recent act passed for the suppression of illicit distillation.

1 Nov 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/215

Letter from Thomas Conroy, Tullamore, King's County [County Offaly], to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Irish Office, London, concerning suggestions made by Conroy on the drainage of bogs.

1 Dec 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/216

Letter from Reverend Forster Archer, Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Inspector General of Prisons Ireland, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning his enquires into the escape of 3 prisoners from county Antrim jail, Carrickfergus, on 31 October 1819. Notes that the prisoners had the assistance of a workman involved in work on the new prison, who provided the escapees with tools to break locks. Archer exonerates the prison guards from any involvement. Suggests that as work remains to be completed on the prison, the remaining convicts should be removed, 15 November 1819. Encloses minutes of evidence gathered by Archer into the escape, signed by Archer, 31 October 1819.

31 Oct 1819-15 Nov 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/217

File of papers relating to the weekly inspection reports from Cork convict depot. Includes 2 reports from Alexander Kennedy, inspector of Cork convict depot, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, 20 October 1819-27 October 1819; 27 October 1819- 3 November 1819. Provides information on convicts' food, clothing, bedding, and activities. Notes female convicts engaged in washing and mending shirts. Also letter from Kennedy to Gregory requesting payment of his salary, 27 October 1819, and the notes of Castle officials of enquiry into his failure to be paid.

20 Oct 1819-3 Nov 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/218

Note from Reverend Forster Archer, Inspector General of Prisons Ireland, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning the escape of a prisoner, Henry Fox, from the prison at Castlebar, County Mayo, 24 November 1819. Encloses letter from Reverend Henry Pasley, local inspector of County Mayo jail, to Archer, informing him of Fox's escape, and stating that it was due to the 'confused state of the building' following the recent collapse of part of the new prison building, 22 November 1819.

22 Nov 1819-24 Nov 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/219

Letter from William Logan, 40 Mecklenburgh [Railway] Street, Dublin, local inspector of Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin, to Alexander Mangin, chief clerk in civil department, Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, concerning insolvent debtors in Four Courts Marshalsea, and suggesting that a private fund be established to free debtors imprisoned for smaller sums, ultimately saving the public purse, 15 October 1819. Encloses petition of John Carpenter, insolvent debtor held in Four Courts Marshalsea, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting a supply of bread and milk and stating his poverty. Also letter from Carpenter to Grant, expressing hope that Grant received his petition, and will act on it, 29 October 1819.

15 Oct 1819-29 Oct 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/220

Petition of James Collins, 9 Camden Street, Dublin, clerk in military accounts office, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting to know Talbot's opinion on an address he has written to the British people. Refers to his other work, including an address to the disturbed counties of Ireland in 1815, which he published at his own expense, and also an address in 1816 written in reply to a 'Work published in Dublin in 1812 styled the penal Code' [probably a reference to Denys Scully's 'A statement of the penal laws which aggrieve the Catholics of Ireland: with commentaries', 2 volumes, Dublin 1812]. Annotation by Gregory states that Collins must be told that the Lord Lieutenant cannot comment on such matters.

15 Nov 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/221

Letter from Thomas St. Lawrence, Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork and Ross, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning the Cork fever hospital and requesting to know whether the physicians of the hospital are entitled to be granted remuneration for their extra labours during the 'two years that the typhus fever raged in this city'. Relays details of a recent meeting of the managers of Cork fever hospital on the subject, 28 November 1819. Also, letter from Dr George Renny, Army Medical office, Dublin, chief of the Army Medical department, to Gregory, stating the position of legislation in relation to the retrospective remuneration of physicians attending the 'fever poor'. Warns that agreeing to this case would open the door to many more similar claims on government funds, 30 November 1819.

28 Nov 1819-30 Nov 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/222

Letter from Reverend Robert Craig, Frescati, County Dublin, to Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, concerning the vacant post of master of Enniskillen Royal school [Portora], Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. Concerns rumours he has heard that 'college intrigue' is about to force the government to appoint a young, inexperienced 'junior of junior Fellows' to the job. Criticises the 'jobbing and intrigue' of the college.

13 Nov 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/223

Attested copy of writ of ad quod damnum concerning the request of Anthony Chearnley to hold 2 yearly fairs in town and lands of Knockboy, parish of Lickoran, barony of Decies without Drum, County Waterford, 14 July 1819. Also containing result of inquiry of John Keily, high sheriff of County Waterford into request, 14 August 1819.

14 Jul 1819-14 Aug 1819

1819