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CSO/RP/1824/1611

Letter from Thomas Joplin, Hibernian Hotel, Dawson Street, Dublin, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, reflecting on formation of the Irish Provincial Banking Company and seeking personal interview in connection with same, 1 October 1824. Encloses copy letter from Thomas Potter McQueen, [MP for East Looe, Cornwall, England], London, chairman of London committee for establishing a provincial bank in Ireland, to Nathaniel Hone, governor of the Bank of Ireland, [Harcourt Street, Dublin], setting out intentions to tap into the provincial commercial trade of Ireland and seeking his consent on the act of incorporation. Anticipates harmonious relationship, as the new bank will establish its clientele in districts outside those under circulation by Bank of Ireland; remarks ‘the success of our Company must render essential service to your Establishment’. Claims that the provincial bank will make a positive contribution to Irish financial stability but warns of formation of minor banks set up in opposition to the Bank of Ireland, who ‘will circulate their Paper and offer opposition in every practicable mode’; also encloses printed prospectus for bank. Also copy of printed ‘Prospectus of the Irish Provincial Banking Company’, indicating composition of committees in 6 Irish districts. Also letter from WH Trant, MP for Okehampton, Portland Place, London, member of bank committee, to Lieutenant Colonel Meyrick Shawe, private secretary to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, indicating Joplin’s intention of travelling to Dublin to promote the interests of the proposed bank in Ireland, 7 September 1824.

17 Sep 1824-1 Oct 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1612

Petition of Catherine Keon, [County Roscommon], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting a pardon for her husband, William Keon, an officer in the County Roscommon militia, who was convicted of stealing 4 pigs belonging to Robert Sandys and sentenced to transportation for 7 years in New South Wales, Australia. Explains she is locked in contention with another party over possession of the lands of Annaghmore and Ballyglass in County Roscommon, out of which by marriage settlement she is entitled to £100 per year plus £1,500 for her younger children; claims without the presence of her husband, whom she has not heard from for almost 3 years, a legal challenge cannot be mounted.

[1824]

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1613

Petition of Henry Ball, farmer, Relagh, County Tyrone, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of financial assistance on account of loss of son. Complains his son, Henry Ball, was shot dead while on board a cot on Relagh Lake by a soldier out with a hunting party under the command of Lieutenant Thompson. Continues his eldest daughter is now ‘wholly incapacitated from doing business of any kind…which was caused by the death of her brother’. Refers to William D’Arcy Irvine, magistrate, Castle Irvine, Irvinestown, County Fermanagh, as character witness to authenticity of statement.

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1824

CSO/RP/1824/1614

Petition of Cornelius Iviss [Ivess], farmer, Askeaton, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting extension of financial relief on account of local persecution. Indicates he has been active in his opposition to local crime and recollects going with a party of police under the command of Thomas Doolin to aid defence of his brother’s property at Inchirourke, which was under siege by armed Whiteboys; relays in the encounter that followed, one police officer was shot dead and 2 insurgents with another 2 been tried and executed upon conviction. Mentions also destruction of corn belonging to a friendly tenant, Thomas Mulcare, valued at £80, by the Whiteboys; claims to be ‘a Marked Man’ and laments at loss of near £200 per year on account of having to abandon his rights to hold 3 ‘most profitable and extensive farms’ in the locality.

21 Aug 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1615

Letter from Lieutenant Joseph Goslett, chief clerk of police, Limerick, County Limerick, to Mrs E Walsh, 10 Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin, indicating that at the time of her husband’s death his salary arrears amounted to the sum of £3 3s 10d. Stresses that application must now be made to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, for the amount claimed and that reference may be made, for reasons of authenticity, to Mr Balmer, chief constable and paymaster of County Limerick.

24 Aug 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1616

Letter from Major Samson Carter, Doneraile, County Cork, chief police magistrate of County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing favour towards application of police sub constables, John Leahy, George Rice and George Canny, for a transfer from the barony of Duhallow.

23 Sep 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1617

Letter from Major Thomas D’Arcy, Belfast, County Antrim, inspector general of police for province of Ulster, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting upon attempted investigation of charges by John Harvey, of Buncrana, County Donegal, against the local police establishment and magistrate. Encloses proceedings of meeting of magistrates at Burnfoot, barony of Inishowen, County Donegal, indicating that as Harvey is absent in England the intended investigation was postponed, 29 November 1824. Also encloses letter from Harvey to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, seeking investigation of the case of farmer, Daniel Scanlan, who was forcefully removed from his dwelling by the police of Carn, [County Donegal]. Also highlights complaint of John Bradley, a farmer, whose son was dragged more than a mile from his house following a police raid in conjunction with a man called John Doherty. Also mentions complaint of a second man named Hugh Bradley over behaviour of the police and local magistrate, George Young, 9 October 1824. Also encloses subsequent letter from Harvey seeking an investigation, 18 October 1824. Also letter from D’Arcy, Belfast, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, indicating an investigation of Harvey’s charges has been completed and concluding ‘in the different instances brought forward as matter of accusation, the police were acting under legal authority’, 4 June 1825. Encloses copies of individual investigations and findings of magistrates, 26 May 1825. Also encloses letter from Harvey to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, indicating intention to ‘substantiate the charges’ previously mentioned at any appointed time, 2 May 1825. Also damp press letter from Gregory to D’Arcy commenting on matter [very faded], 11 May 1825.

9 Oct 1824-4 Jun 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1824/1618

Petition of William McCaughey, Frances McLaughlin and Hugh McCloskey, farmers, Dungiven, County Londonderry, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting relief from imposition of fine of Stg£20 for non attendance at assizes to prosecute Daniel McVey and James Foad for theft of a cow. Insists they were unaware of the necessity to attend the assizes [being ‘ignorant unlettered men’] having provided written confirmation of their encounter with McVey and Foad, who attempted to sell the animal in question at below market value to McCloskey. Petition marked on base by the three men with attestation signed by Thomas Fanning, magistrate of County Londonderry.

25 Aug 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1619

Letter from AG Stapleton, clerk, Foreign Office, Downing Street, London, to Lieutenant Colonel Meyrick Shawe, private secretary to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, forwarding 2 documents at behest of George Canning, secretary of state, and emphasising ‘he knows nothing of Lydia, and as little of the Lieutenant’, 2 October 1824. Encloses letter from Lydia Canning, 24 St Andrew Street, Dublin, to Canning, requesting intervention with the Irish government to continue proclamations in the ‘Ulster Chronicle’ newspaper, Dungannon, County Tyrone, of which she is proprietor. Also encloses memorial from Lydia Canning to Wellesley, seeking continuation of government patronage through advertising the proclamations in her newspaper, without the support of which she would be reduced ‘to the greatest indigence’, 2 September 1824.

2 Sep 1824-2 Oct 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/1620

Letter from Denis Browne, MP for Kilkenny city, Westport House, Westport, County Mayo, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, seeking to negotiate an agreement to enable [Peter] Ormsby, army staff surgeon at Limerick, to complete a period of service of near 30 years in term. Suggests Ormsby be given leave of absence for 6 months or that he be employed as surgeon in the hospital of Castlebar, County Mayo. Encloses letter from Henry John Temple, 3rd viscount Palmerston, [Secretary at War, London], Broadlands, Romsey, England, to Browne, indicating that since management of such affairs rests with Dr George Renny, Director General of Hospitals, Dublin, application should be made to the Chief Secretary of Ireland.

24 Feb 1824-29 Feb 1824

1824