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CSO/RP/1824/2141

Letter from lords Kingston [George King], Ennismore [Richard Hare], Carbery [John Evans-Freke] and Sir Nicholas Conway Colthurst [MP, Cork city], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, urging acceptance of an application [from the trustees of the city of Cork market] for a grant of £5,000 to establish a new corn market. Stresses limitations of existing market area and associated problem of congestion in the city. Considers advantages of the proposed site which have potential for development as a place for the sale of agricultural produce, flax yarn and linen . Without grant aid, they contend, a bridge between the proposed site and the city could not be constructed. Also draft note indicating the Lord Lieutenant’s sanction of a ‘gift of £5000’ to the trustees of the city of Cork market. Also letter from Lord Carbery, Lucan, County Dublin, to Goulburn, expressing appreciation over recent letter on subject of the corn market. Also extends recommendation for Mr Duff for a position in the police establishment.

4 Dec 1824-23 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/2142

Copy petition of the president and fellows of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting a grant of £10,000 to establish a physicians’ hall, library and museum in the city of Dublin. Refers to the history of the College of Physicians, instigated under the reign of Charles II, and describes the various places used as meeting places by the organisation. Observes the college channelled the greater part of a saving fund into erection of a clinical hospital, in order to advance medical science. Signed by Jonathan Osborne, registrar. With draft reply on base indicating the Lord Lieutenant’s opinion that consideration of the request cannot be given as the present session of Parliament is too far advanced.

[1824]

1824

CSO/RP/1824/2143

File of material relating to application for rebuilding the bridge of Athlone, County Westmeath. Includes copy memorial from the principle inhabitants of the town of Athlone, County Westmeath, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting grant from Parliament for purpose of widening the town bridge over the River Shannon. Observes Athlone is a busy and populace centre having regular military and public traffic. The bridge, they remark, which dates from Elizabethan times, is narrow and dangerous, and has been the scene of ‘many alarming accidents’. Rebuilding the bridge, under the circumstances, would be ‘a most necessary and beneficial Public Work’ and an appropriate aid to persons in need of employment. Memorial is signed by Thomas St George Armstrong and 69 other persons; also attested by WG Harris, Thomas Cunningham and Michael Monk, cOctober 1824. Also includes letter from Richard Byham, secretary, Ordnance Department, London, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, acknowledging receipt of several documents and reflecting on delay in dealing with application to rebuild the bridge of Athlone. Indicates in accordance with the determination of the master general the reconstruction cannot be attempted ‘until possession should be obtained of the Houses built against the wall of the castle of Athlone, with a view to the improvement of its defences’. Refers also to memorandum [enclosed in his letter] alluding to an impediment placed in the way of a settlement by ‘the apparent disinclination of the Incorporated Society to enter fully into the question’ and requesting the interference of the Chief Secretary, 22 June 1825. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

20 Nov 1824-2 Aug 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1824/2144

Letter from Dr Edward Trevor, Dublin, supervisor of convict transportation at Cove, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, drawing attention to the negative consequences of a naval health directive issued to convict ship surgeons departing for New South Wales, Australia, and requesting advice. Stresses the uncritical application of the naval order has a tendency to undermine the principle of public justice as reflected through transportation for infringement of the law. Points out that convict ship surgeons, who follow the regulation to the letter, are inclined to offer objection to a prisoner's fitness to travel even for ‘the most trifling cases of disease’. Remarks upon past objections made by the present surgeon of the ship ‘Houghly [Hooghly]’, which is soon to arrive at Cove [Cobh]. Also comments on the danger of misdiagnoses and on the potential for deception by convicts not wishing to be transported. Reflects that under the existing scheme of transportation ‘from the 17th September 1817 to the 13th February 1824 – 32 Ships have been dispatched from Cork with 4878 Convicts and only 17 Deaths occurred’.

25 Nov 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/2145

Letter from Sir Edward Smith Lees, secretary, General Post Office, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, reporting the robbery of mail from the post boy on route between Trim, County Meath and Kilkock, County Kildare, by two assailants, resulting in loss of the entire mail.

20 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1824/2146

Letter from Charles Thomas Hill, secretary to the British Gas Light Company, Hibernian Hotel, Dawson Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, requesting sanction of government to lay and install gas pipes in the city of Dublin. Emphasises that his company will provide ‘a cheaper and better light’ to the public and will prevent a monopoly accumulating in the hands of a single supplier. Also mentions investment of £100,000 ‘of British Capital’ in the scheme, which will bring positive benefits to the city. Encloses copy of application from the British Gas Light Company to the Corporation for Paving and Lighting the city of Dublin, seeking permission to supply gas light to the city. Claims that their patent method is capable of producing ‘a more pure and brilliant Gas’ and at a cost of 10% below existing charges.

7 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1824/2147

Letter from Robert Peel, Secretary of State, Whitehall, London, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, requesting information on a Mr McDougall ‘and of the grounds of his supercession as a magistrate?’. Also letter from Thomas Lockwood, Stephen's Green, Dublin, [secretary to Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st baron Manners, Lord Chancellor of Ireland], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on the circumstances of McDougall, who was reduced from his post in 1822.

2 Dec 1824-8 Dec 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/2148

Letter from Reverend Robert Staples Jacob, Church of Ireland clergyman, 9 Mountjoy Square East, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, advancing his claim to preferment to the parish of Kilcooley [?Kilcooly, County Tipperary], which has an annual income of £400. Indicates intention of making a visit to Dublin Castle in person to discuss the matter and also claims his application has the support of Lord Norbury [John Toler], Lord Chief Justice of Court of Common Pleas, and William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland. Also letter from Jacob, [Dunmore], to Goulburn, expressing disappointment at response to application for parish position. Remarks upon past sacrifices of family in support of the crown ‘for more than two Centuries’.

6 Dec 1824-15 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1824/2149

Letter from Henry R Standish, clerk, Life Annuity Office, [?Dublin], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting instruction on making a response to an application from Joseph Hume, MP for Edinburgh, for information on Irish annuities to aid a forthcoming parliamentary inquiry. Indicates that half yearly printed statements can be provided containing the information. Also request return of Hume’s original letter.

12 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1824/2150

Letter from H Moore, Carnecastle [Carncastle], County Antrim, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, requesting that a pension paid to Biddy Doran be paid in half yearly instalments. Relays that the applicant is ‘very poor & in a bad state of health’ and is puzzled why her past remuneration of a half guinea per week has been reduced to 20 guineas a year.

20 Dec 1824

1824