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CSO/RP/1827/171

File of papers relating to anonymous letters sent to members of government. Letters from John Robinson, Usher’s Quay, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, forwarding anonymous letters he received from Gorey, County Wexford, ‘for the information of Government’. Annotation on reverse stating that enclosed anonymous letter was returned to him, 8 February 1827. Also memorandum signed by John Barrowes, General Post Office, summarising the case. States that as early as December 1822, William Gregory, Under Secretary, had written to Sir Edward Smith Lees, secretary to the Irish Postmasters General, relating to a number of anonymous letters being sent to individuals in Wexford, in particular, the Earl of Courtown [James George Stopford, 3rd Earl Courtown].

8 Jan 1827-8 Feb 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/172

Letter from Richard Griffith, [civil engineer], Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, reporting irregularities in his department in relation to the work of boundary surveyors, ‘from the want of unity in the system’, and outlining a number of recommendations to remedy the situation. Also letter from Lt Col Thomas [Frederick] Colby, [Director of Ordnance Survey in Ireland], Ordnance Map Office, Tower, [Dublin Castle], to Goulburn, stating that Griffith’s recommendations relate only to his department as ‘they are not in accordance with my instructions for the survey’.

25 Jan 1827-1 Feb 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/173

Memorial of Margaret Russell, Dublin, to [Richard] Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, seeking the return of personal documents and a sum of £100 which were taken from her brother Thomas [b. 21 November 1767] on the morning of his execution, 21 October 1803 [at Downpatrick Gaol, by hanging and beheading], for participating in an insurrection [Rebellion of Robert Emmet, 23 July 1803]. Claims that documents contained a journal kept by Thomas in India [in service with the British army], as well as religious tracts and political writings. Signed by Russell care of ‘Mrs Hamilton at Mr Lundy’s’, 34 New Street, Dublin. Annotation on reverse states that ‘any effects of which Mr Thomas Russell might have been possessed at the time of his conviction became the property of the King’.

18 Dec 1826-[Jan 1827]

[1827]

CSO/RP/1827/174

Letter from Chamberlen William Walker, secretary Board of Education, Hume Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, outlining resolutions passed in relation to the impeaching of leases made by the Trustees of the Midleton School Board, [County Cork], in accordance with the legal opinions of the Solicitor General [Henry Joy] and Mr Blacker, counsel to the board. States that this was later approved by the Attorney General [William Plunket].

6 Feb 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/175

Copy of 3 resolutions passed at a meeting of members of the Board of Superintendence held 25 January 1827 to discuss ‘the alarming state of fever’ in Leitrim County Gaol, signed by Chairman Capt S C Rowley and attended by Capt Percy, Tobias L Birchall, Capt Cox and John O’Brien. Also calendar of green wax debtors in the gaol, detailing names of prisoners, date convicted and amount owed, signed by Crowley, Cox and John Quinn, Governor. Calendar contains covering note by John Dunn MD, Physician at Leitrim Gaol, reporting 7 cases of typhus. Also covering letter from Rowley, Carrick on Shannon, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary.

25 Jan 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/176

Letter from Viscount Ennismore, [?Richard Hare], Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, requesting reply to memorials forwarded by him and Sir Nicholas [Conway] Colthurst [4th Baronet], [on 29 April 1826], from the Grand Juries of the City and County of Cork to the lords of the Treasury, seeking funds to build new County and city courthouses on the site of the old custom house in Cork.

15 Aug 1826-[Jan 1827]

[1827]

CSO/RP/1827/177

Anonymous letter to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, the nomination of sub sheriffs. States that ‘It is the general opinion of the Corporation [?of Dublin] that the nomination of a sub sheriff has, is, now will be a mile stone around the neck of the Corporation’.

[1827]

[1827]

CSO/RP/1827/178

Memorial of James Harvey, printer and bookbinder, 26 Charles Street, Dublin, to [Richard Wellesley], Lord Lieutenant, seeking the return of printing type made by him. Claims that he created the type for John Burke Fizsimmons, 19 Anglesea Street, Dublin, proprietor of the ‘Hibernian Journal’, who cancelled an order for the printing of government proclamations to the sum of over £13, and instead of returning the type to memorialist, sent it instead to Dublin Castle. [Subject’s name noted as Harvey in register].

12 Jan 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/179

Memorial of Mary Kenny, Sandymount, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, seeking his intervention to recover payment due to her by Mary Gibson for the care of her child. Claims Gibson is employed in service as well as receiving a pension in respect of her deceased husband who served in the police force. Annotation on reverse marking Kenny’s case for immediate attention.

[1827]

[1827]

CSO/RP/1827/180

Letter from Alexander Nimmo, [civil engineer], Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, referring to enclosed letter [not present], from William Holden, Secretary to the Commissioners of Exchequer Loan Bills, stating that it is the opinion of the solicitor to that board that recent legislation authorising the making of loans on public works in Ireland ‘does not permit them to make a loan on the Security of a Grand Jury presentment’.

13 Jan 1827

1827