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CSO/RP/1824/231

Letter from Major General Brooke Young, John Butcher and J Baddeley, Office of Ordnance, Lower Castle Yard, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, conveying that expenditure for purchase of three houses on South Great Georges Street, Dublin, proposed for conversion to use as an insolvent debtor’s court, has been recommended to the board of Ordnance ‘for acceptance’. Also letter from William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, to Sir Charles William Flint, resident secretary of Irish Office, London, enclosing extract from the minutes of the Board of Works, indicating that secretary, Robert Robinson, has requested Francis Johnston, architect to the Board of Works, to report in detail on the proposals for the property in question.

24 Sep 1823-9 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/232

Petition of George B Kiernan, late quartermaster, 8th Regiment, 15 Brunswick Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post of employment under government. He emphasises his long period of service in the military and complains of being ‘in great distress with a large family’.

17 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/233

Letter from Henry Hobhouse, Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, London, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing letter from George Mitchell, half pay lieutenant, Irishtown, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Secretary of State, with memorial from Mitchell to His Majesty the King, seeking appointment to a post of employment under government and stating that he has served with the Newfoundland Regiment for a period of more than 7 years and making reference to a legal suit which ‘was in some degree victorious, but not being allowed either interest or costs, has ruined his circumstances’.

9 Jan 1824-19 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/234

Letter from Major George Warburton, chief magistrate of police, Castlebar, County Mayo, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, concerning the investigation of a complaint by Charles Fitzgerald, half pay lieutenant, 29th Regiment of Foot, over the conduct of Lieutenant Shea, chief constable of police in the barony of Gallen. Encloses copy letter from Fitzgerald, Foxford, County Mayo, expressing his strong objection to the behaviour of Shea, who having discovered a quantity of suspect meat in the town market sunsequently ‘abused myself, my Mother, Brother and Servants in the most Shameful and disgraceful manner, and made use of in the Public Street, in the presence of a large concourse of people, the most violent and improper language’; also alleges he witnessed Shea ‘snap a Pistol at a Boy he was chasing in the Street’. Also encloses copy of proceedings of enquiry dealing primarily with an alleged attempt made on the life of a boy by Shea; with evidence taken from Patrick Davis, David Rutledge, James Sweeny, Sylvester Shiel and Ellen Sevan, plus detail of the cross examination by Shea.

7 Feb 1824-19 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/235

Petition of John Mackin, late police sub-constable, Drumcree, County Westmeath, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, pleading for redress of his claim for payment of extra salary and for refund of 18s 6d deducted ‘for Old Clothing worn in the Service’. Also letter from Major O’Donoghue, Bevedere, Mullingar, County Westmeath, to Gregory, reporting that Mackin has ‘no just grounds for his claim’ and noting he was removed from oversight of men ‘for gross misconduct’. Returns memorial from Mackin to Gregory, seeking advance of arrears of £8 6s 8d for duties performed in charge of a party of police; also separate detail of account due.

28 Jan 1824-15 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/236

Petition of Reverend Robert Shaw, vicar, parish of St John, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting permission to appoint persons to act as parish [valuation] commissioners to value and assess ‘all Building or Houses in the said Parish’ [with persons nominated written in left margin: Louis Anderson, Richard Butler and John Porter Sr]. With certificate inscribed on base stating that ‘no Commission of Valuation…has been approved by the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council within the Three years last past’, signed by John Ebbs, deputy clerk of council.

14 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/237

Letter from Thomas Robinson, Enniscorthy, County Wexford, to Lieutenant Colonel Meyrick Shawe, private secretary to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Phoenix Park, Dublin, complaining that no response has been received to his memorial and requesting the return of his papers. Also memorial from Robinson to Wellesley, seeking reply to his earlier memorial and return of ‘some documents and letters from Lord Shannon [Henry Boyle] and Mr [Robert] Peel’. Also copy letter from William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, to Robinson, acknowledging memorial but declining application on grounds of ‘the very great reductions in all Departments, and the numerous claims on the Government’. Also memorial from Robinson, 37 Clarendon Street, Dublin, to Wellesley, requesting the appointment of his eldest son to a post of employment. Makes reference to period of military service in America and in East and West Indies, his loss of property and want of funds to continue his youngest son in the surgical profession; also recollects recent activity and zeal as magistrate in County Cork ‘in quelling the spirit of insubordination’ that so threatened political authority.

4 Feb 1824-5 Sep 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/238

Letter from Charles Stewart, lieutenant, 69th Regiment of Foot, 4 Sallymount, Renelagh, County Dublin, to Lieutenant Colonel Meyrick Shawe, private secretary to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Phoenix Park, Dublin, referring to a personal interview of the previous day and enclosing an outline of a case for the consideration of the Lord Lieutenant. Claims to be a disbanded officer of the Irish Commissariat, Corps of Waggoners, and complains of considerable personal impoverishment since departure from military and requesting compensation for past services. Account attested by signatures [not original] of the Earl of Rosse [Laurence Parsons] and 6 other persons. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

19 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/239

Letter from Richard O’Connell, late barony constable, Dungarvan, County Waterford, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that a grand jury furnish him with two-thirds of his former salary as he has in excess of 20 years service. Asserts that ‘since the appointment of the police Constables he gets nothing to Earn for his Support’ and claims to be personally ‘in a very bad State and has a large family to support’.

20 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/240

Petition of Henry Davidson, Belderg, Monaghan, County Monaghan, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post in the police establishment; also indicates his interest in the infantry or cavalry service.

23 Feb 1824

1824