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CSO/RP/1820/31

Letter from Isaac Ashe, Tamlaght Glebe, Moneymore, County Londonderry to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, requesting loan from Fund for Relief of Trade, as a result of financial distress arising from bank failures in Ireland.

5 Aug 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/32

File of papers relating to complaints of mismanagement by Samuel Otway, against John Barclay Alloway, Inspector of Public Coal Yards, Dublin, and related contentious issue of house occupied by the former on coal yard property. Includes certificate in support of Otway, from HG Sankey, Rutland Square, Dublin, 19 May 1818; includes letter from Otway to Commissioners for Impressing Public Accounts, Foster Place, Dublin, requesting deferment of payment to Dublin Coal Yard until an examination is made of both himself and Sankey; adds that the latter is presently in France and he is ‘unfortunately confined in the Sheriff’s Prison’, 30 May 1818; letter from Donough O’Brien, Office of Public Accounts, to Otway stating that the Commissioners of Public Accounts request ‘Such information as may enable them in their progress of the examination of the account to investigate any mismanagement that may have occurred to your knowledge in the Administration of the friends of the Director of the Dublin coal yards’, 9 June 1818; copy letter from William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, to T & W Kemmis, crown solicitors, requesting opinion on declaration by Alloway, that Otway ‘continues to occupy a House belonging to the Coal yard on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, although frequently ordered to leave the Premises’, 6 July 1818; petition from Otway, 70 City Quay, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, outlining circumstances of his dismissal from post of first clerk of the Public Coal Yard, alleging that under Alloway’s directorship of the yard, ‘abuses highly detrimental to the interests of Government and of the poor’ were pursued, and also makes request that he may be permitted to remain in his house attached to the coal yard, 4 August 1881; and copy letter from Alloway to Gregory, relating that the house occupied by Otway on the coal yard was ‘forcible possessed’ and that Otway was offered payment of salary arrears on condition that he and family vacate the premises, 25 September 1818.

19 May 1818-28 Feb 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1820/33

File of papers relating to revival of complaint by Samuel Otway, against John Barclay Alloway, Inspector of Public Coal Yards, Dublin, relating to imprudent acquisition of coals for public yard and nonpayment of salary. Includes letter from Alloway, Mount Pleasant Crescent, [London, England], to Alexander Mangin, Dublin Castle, asserting that Otway’s allegations have been proven to be without foundation and relates ‘I’m Sorry that Mr Otway obliges me to say, that the Cause of my Parting with both him and his son was for Dishonesty, in sending out Coals from Fishamble Street yard, to his House, and no doubt elsewhere without my Knowledge’, 25 August 1820; also includes letter from Otway, 52 City Quay, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, restating allegations of inappropriate management of the public coal yard by Alloway, claiming to have an irreproachable record in his post as clerk to the coal yard and requesting a position of employment, 1 August 1820; also includes copy letter from Gregory to Otway stating that upon investigation it was found ‘that Mr Alloway advertised in a proper manner for contracts to supply the yards, and closed with the best that could be obtained’ and to confirm that Alloway ‘was ready to pay the Balance of your Salary on getting a Receipt for it from your Assignee’, 12 March 1819.

8 Mar 1819-25 Aug 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/34

Petition of Joseph Adams, land carriage officer, 73 Francis Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post of employment. Claims that he has suffered loss of property and the ‘Death of his son who was inhumanly Murdered on Account of his and Memoralists Loyalty and the Services they had rendered to the Government of this Country during the Insurrection in the year of 1803’.

1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/35

Petition of Joseph Adams, land carriage officer, 73 Francis Street, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post in the Stamp Office. Refers to loss of son in the 1803 Uprising and observes that he lost dwellings valued at £300 and a silk manufacturing business, due to his adherence to government; states that he was appointed land carriage officer in Dublin but ‘from his Weak and declining state of Health, he is rendered unable to undertake the situation of Tide Waiter’.

1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/36

Letter signed ‘an unfortunate Sub Commissioner’ to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of salary dues for ‘last quarter ending 1st December 1819’ for work with the Record Commission. Adds ‘To give you an idea of my distress would be impossible suffice to say that my situation is most afflicting’.

1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/37

Letter signed ‘A True Friend’ to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, warning of potential outbreak of insurrection on Saint Patrick’s Day. Advises that public assembly should be prevented to avert a repeat of ‘The Tragedy of St Bartholemew’ and cautions ‘The Bloody Work To Begin And End, On The One Night Throughout The Kingdom’.

[Mar] 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/38

Memorandum concerning impersonation of Margaret Alley, who had been awarded payment of concordatum by Lord Whitworth, but was prevented receiving the allowance by the exertions of another person, an action that was colluded in by Mr Sharpe, clerk to Colonel Ready. Includes letter from Alley, Liverpool, England, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, mentioning financial difficulties and outlining claim for inclusion on concordatum list; also includes letter from Alley, Liverpool, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, applying for concordatum benefit; complains of difficulties in making rent payments on house and refers to husbands lifetime service to government ‘and his father before him who was murdered in the Rebellion of 1798 in Ireland’.

13 Apr 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/39

Draft schedule of Acts relating to Ireland expiring at the end of session 60th of George III, and on or before 1 August 1821. Mentions, for example, acts relating to illicit distillation, pay of militia and gunpowder and arms.

c1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/40

Account of distribution of £17,667.2.6¾, British currency, granted in session 1819, for defraying the extraordinary expense of the army in Ireland, for year ending 5th January 1820. Provides detailed breakdown of expenditure indicating, for example, payment of £382.14.6¼ to Thomas Tickell, agent for transmission of deserters; and payment of £366.3.4 to Thomas Jeans, for inspecting and reporting on the Cavalry barracks in Newbridge, County Kildare; document signed by Thomas Haffield.

9 Feb 1820

1820