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CSO/RP/1824/211

Letter from John Jones, vicar of Monasteroris and Kilclonfert, J Brownrigg, magistrate, Thomas Murray, magistrate, and Henry Edward Joly, rector of Clonsart, King's County [County Offaly], to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, signaling their support for Cornelius Power, an incapacitated boatman, whose ‘family withstood all overtures to join that System of Combination unfortunately so prevalent in his vocation; & to which he has at length become the Victim’. Encloses memorial from Power, Edenderry, King’s County, to Wellesley, seeking financial support due to severity of injuries sustained during an attack on a boat on the Royal Canal on 13th November [1823] by a mob acting under the influence of Captain Rock; claims that during the confrontation he was hit by a pistol around the head, had one of his teeth broken, and was stabbed on a number of occasions. Annexes to base a certificate signed by medical attendant HE Joly.

6 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/212

Petition of John Eager [Eagar], Newry, County Down, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post in the water guard or revenue service. Claims to have been victim of an illegal fine by the surveyor general which forced him to abandon his jaunting car hire business and leave his home. Recalls past employment on the ships ’Polyplemus’ and ‘Leviathan’ and complains of being wounded in service; he laments the diminutive support provided by his ‘Small Pension of Four Pounds’ per year.

7 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/213

Petition of John Tatlock, Harold’s Cross, County Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post in the police establishment or other employment under government. Makes reference to a period of time spent in military service, part of which was in the East Indies, prior to his discharge ‘with a good Character’.

c11 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/214

Letter from Henry Norman, Rathkeale, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment as a sub constable in the police establishment of County Limerick and including note to ‘Mr Secretary’ [possibly Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary] seeking his benevolence and help in placing the application before Wellesley; he also makes reference to a character reference from Godfrey Massy of Rathkeale Abbey [not present].

6 Dec 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1824/215

Letter from George Harrison, Treasury Chambers, London, England, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a copy memorial from Thomas Cosens [Cosins], addressed from the home of Thomas Randall, East Street, Chichester, West Sussex, England, to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, offering to carry out embankment work at the inner bay of Tramore harbour in County Waterford. Proposing that the work will be completed at a cost of £10 per acre with the proviso he be awarded a lease on the land for 99 years at a rent of £100 per annum. Also copy letter from Goulburn to Harrison, responding to earlier proposal from Cosens, and stating that the Commissioners are of opinion that the embankment project would not be the ‘most eligible work on which to employ such portion of the labouring poor of Ireland…at the expense of Government’. Also letter from Harrison to Goulburn, enclosing letter from Cosens and a plan of Tramore bay prepared by Alexander Nimmo, civil engineer [not present] for consideration of the Lord Lieutenant. Also query concerning proposed embankment work at Tramore, with reply by the Attorney General [William Saurin] and Solicitor General [Charles Kendal Bushe]. Also printed circular notice inviting proposals from individuals to lease from the crown the inner bay or back strand of Tramore, ‘for the purpose of Embanking and Cultivating the same’.

14 Jul 1818-26 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/216

Letter from Reverend Francis Fox, rector of Ballyhaise, Brookhill, Cavan, County Cavan, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, seeking preferment to the deanery of County Armagh. Remarking that the present holder of that office, Lord Lifford [James Hewitt], has been a recipient of ‘constant and frequent attacks of illness’ and may soon pass away. Complains of having ‘only a small living’ at present and refers to an earlier approach for advancement aided by his uncle Earl Farnham. Also mentioning his inclusion on a list for promotion during the government of Robert Peel [Chief Secretary of Ireland, 1812-1818].

11 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/217

Memorial of Patrick Conroy, Kilmaine, County Mayo, and Patrick Flaherty, pensioner, 11th Regiment [of Foot]f Mayo militia, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to the new police establishment or to the Excise Board; noting that they are ineligible for the new police constabulary because they are 'illiterate’ and but claiming to have accrued more than two years service in the regular force since July 1821 ‘when the Barony was threatened with disturbances’. Includes character reference confirming their ‘good conduct and activity’, signed by Browne and 12 resident magistrates of barony of Kilmaine in County Mayo. Also covering letter from Howe Peter Brown, 2nd marquis of Sligo, Governor of Mayo, Westport, County Mayo, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle and also a list of army personnel including Howard, Rutledge, Early, McCann and Hallinan, stating their term of service, regiment, and ‘whether able bodied’ or not. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

29 Dec 1823-16 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/218

Letter from Reverend W Hughes, rector of the parish of Killinick, County Wexford, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking advance of financial aid for the purpose of erecting a school house in his locality. Explains that Mr Nunn has agreed to provide a site for the proposed building but expresses displeasure over ‘having 53 Children, 29 Protestants, and 26 Roman Catholicks without any house to teach them in, the only place being a dissenters meeting house without any fireplace and totally inadequate’. Refers also to his desire for an exchange of living and expresses satisfaction with circumstances apart from being ‘without an house & Glebe in the Parish’. Also comments on desirability of having a clause in tithe bill that confers power even when the number of church vestry members ‘does not amount to seven’.

27 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/219

Letter from Paul Savage, Robert Smyth, Ignatius Callaghan, Edward Moran and George Wharton, directors, Royal Canal House, Broadstone, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, expressing intention of making application for a loan of £10,000 to extend the canal from Killashee in County Kildare to the town of Longford in County Longford. They acknowledge a sum of £17,148 was previously sought under ‘a different Security’ and stress the advantages of the canal to the local economy, especially the enlarged market for the collieries of County Leitrim. Also letter from John Galloway, secretary, Commissioners for Issue of Money for Public Works, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, declaring his resistance to the proposed loan of £10,000 sough by the Royal Canal Company on grounds of insufficient security, terms of repayment, and provision of guarantee for completion of work. Also letter from WA Williamson, Sovereign, Longford, to Gregory, enclosing a memorial from the inhabitants of the town of Longford to Wellesley, seeking removal of obstacles in the way of making the canal to Longford, a measure, they claim, that will enhance trade in the neighbourhood and provide the means of keeping ‘a numerous population employ’d for a considerable time’. Also letter from Samuel Draper, secretary, Royal Canal House, to Gregory, enclosing a copy of the proposal to the commissioners indicating the board are prepared to ‘Guarantee the repayment of the required sum of £10,000 by Mortgage of the proposed off Branch to Longford with all the issues and Profits that may arise there from’. Also memorial from the directors of the Royal Canal, to Wellesley, outlining the rationale for support of the project and seeking the intervention of government to enable advance of loan under proposed conditions.

26 Jan 1824-8 Apr 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/220

Letter from Charles Pressly, secretary, Stamp Office, William Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, returning warrant for the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel George Morris as Governor of the House of Industry, Dublin [not present], and indicating than a refund has been made of Stg£10 overpaid on the stamp of same.

21 Feb 1824

1824