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CSO/RP/1829/141

File of papers relating to neglect by 2 chief constables from County Limerick, Thomas Doolan, stationed at Hospital, and William Doolan, stationed at Croom, in submitting required accounts and reports. Includes: letter from Maj William Miller, Inspector General of Police [in Munster], Clonmel, [County Tipperary], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, referring to such neglect as ‘extremely embarrassing’, and forwarding letter he received from William Smith, Subinspector and Pay Clerk of County Limerick, Rathkeale; copy of warning letter from Leveson Gower to Thomas Doolan, Bruff; and letter from Miller to Leveson Gower, forwarding additional letter from Smith enclosing 2 printed forms outlining statement of incidental expenses, as well as pay bill and muster roll of the policemen employed under Thomas and William Doolan, for the period 1 to 31 December 1828, with printed extract from the police regulations 30 June 1828 on reverse. Annotation by William Gregory, Under Secretary, requesting the permission to suspend the chief constables for a period of 1 month, and to be informed that if the offense is repeated they will be dismissed, with 3 subsequent sets of initials, including ‘J Byng [Lt Gen Sir John Byng, Commander in Chief of the Irish army].

19 Oct 1828-3 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/142

Letter from J Grogan, Eglish, Parsonstown [Birr, County Offaly], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, requesting that his son, John Grogan, be admitted to bail, following his imprisonment by magistrate Capt Bennett of Thomastown ‘on a charge of abduction and maltreating the father of the girl’.

9 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/143

Letter from Sir John Harvey, Inspector General of Police [for Leinster], Portarlington, [County Laois], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, forwarding letter he received from Robert Wright, Chief Constable of Queen’s County [Laois], Graigue, County Carlow, reporting that 4 of his subconstables attended a Brunswick meeting in Carlow the previous Monday, namely: Samuel Johnson; Thomas Kelly; John Kelly; and John Griffith. Suggests that they be suspended for 1 month ‘as a Warning to themselves and their Comrades to be more Cautious in abstaining from shewing themselves at Meetings of a Political Character’. Also copy of subsequent circular memorandum issued by Harvey to the Leinster constabulary, indicating same.

29 Jan 1829-Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/144

Letter from Rev Charles Bushe, Castletownshend, Skibbereen, [County Cork], to Thomas Taylor, informing him that he has been instituted at the living of Castlehaven, stating that he presumes that there is now no further obstacles to Rev [Andrew] McClintock [see CSO/RP/1829/67] moving to Clonegal [County Carlow], and requesting that he forward the enclosed document [not present] to the Lord Chief Justice [?his father, Charles Kendal Bushe]. [Item incorrectly dated 1828 instead of 1829].

24 Jan 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/145

Letter from Maj William Miller, Inspector General of Police [in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, relating to complaint made against John Willcocks, Subinspector of County Tipperary, by James Atkin, ‘for having refused to attend him with the Police while Distraining for Rent’. Encloses letter from Atkin, Rock View Terrace, Cork, to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, outlining the nature of his complaint, as well as letter from Willcocks to Miller, contesting Atkin’s claims. Additional letter from Atkin to Leveson Gower, requesting a reply.

24 Jan 1829-4 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/146

File of papers relating to memorial of William Williams, Master of the ‘Elmgrove’ of Carnarvon [Australia], Newry, to Henry Paget, Lord Lieutenant, outlining his complaint against the dock master at Newry, and seeking investigation. Includes certificate signed by Evan Griffiths, master of the brig ‘Jane’ of Aberystwyth [Wales], declaring that the ‘Elmgrove’ was at Newry Canal on 27 December 1828. Also letter from the Commissioners of the Board of Inland Navigation in Ireland, James Saurin, Henry R Paine and John Radcliff, Navigation Office, Dublin, to the Lords Justices, outlining their report in relation to same.

10 Jan 1829-6 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/147

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton [Inspector General of Police in Connaught], Castlegar, [County Galway], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, requesting that Chief Constable Henry Smith of the Barony of Tyaquin [Tiaquin] be immediately admitted to the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, stating that he is ‘now in a most deplorable state, confined in a strait waist coat’. Also requests that his superannuation allowance is continued and set aside for him, as ‘he certainly deserves the highest class of retirement as he has been under me from the first establishment of the Police… and has always been a trustworthy and zealous man’. Additional letter from Richard Grace, Moral Governor, Richmond Lunatic Asylum, to Alexander Mangin, [first clerk in civil department of Chief Secretary’s Office], informing him that he has sent an admission form to Warburton, and will receive Smith as soon as possible.

6 Feb 1829-9 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/148

Letter from Maj William Miller, Inspector General of Police [in Munster], Fermoy, [County Cork], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, requesting permission to suspend Chief Constable [Joseph] Cruess of Dingle, [County Kerry], from duty and pay for a period of 1 month, for ‘habitual inattention to the orders of the Establishment’. Refers to enclosed copy of warning letter he sent to Cruess, 29 October 1828.

4 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/149

File of papers relating to request by Lewis Hilton, 27 Cuffe Street, Dublin, for the payment of travelling expenses from Dublin to Strabane [County Tyrone], while employed as a boundary surveyor under Richard Griffith, civil engineer. Includes letter from Hilton to William Gregory, Under Secretary, forwarding copy of list of travelling expenses for 3 days’ travel and subsistence, amounting to £8 6s 6d, containing items such as: on Thursday, ‘to remove his Logadge [sic] from this house to the Coach – 5s’; on Friday, ‘in the Morning befort [sic] to go to the Coach one bott [sic] Cham[pagne] etc. – 15s’, as well as ‘I had to take a Botille [sic] Champngne [sic] with me from Dublin etc. – 15s’ and ‘for my Supor [sic] Water etc. more a Bottle Champngne [sic] – 16s’; and on ‘Saturday morning beford [sic] to go to the Coach I drink one Bottel Champagne Wine etc. that I had Brink [sic] with me from Dublin, think Extremely necessiury [sic] for my Eth [sic] – 15s’. Letter written on reverse of copy of previous printed letter sent from Hilton to Henry Paget, Lord Lieutenant, referring to his correspondence with Col Gosset, Phoenix Park, concerning his contract as boundary surveyor as ‘nonsense’, and chastising Griffith for the spending of public money on the Boundary Survey. Additional letter from Griffith to Gregory, confirming that Hilton was employed by him and at the Boundary Office at Strabane between 18 June and 29 September 1827, when he was dismissed ‘owing to his very inaccurate mode of Drawing, and his ignorance of the English Language’. Refers to enclosed extract of minute by Griffith indicating same. Also contains Griffith’s observations on Hilton’s expenses, remarking that ‘as my own expenses by the Mail Coach from Dublin to Strabane never exceeded £2 18s 6d, I paid no attention to his most extraordinary demand’. [See also CSO/RP/1829/2010].

29 Jan 1829-3 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/150

File of papers relating to objections by magistrates to moving the Petty Sessions from Killinick to Broadway [County Wexford]. Includes letter from Sir John Harvey, Inspector General of Police [for Leinster], Portarlington, [County Laois], Maj [Thomas] Powell [chief magistrate of police], Corkagh, Rathcoole, [County Dublin], William Gregory, Under Secretary, enclosing letter he received from Henry Hamilton, Subinspector for County Wexford, Wexford, forwarding: notice sent to him from Edward Johnson, Deputy Clerk of the Peace, informing him that the Petty Sessions are to be moved, signed by the Chairman, the Earl of Courtown [James George Stopford, 3rd Earl Courttown], [Courtown House], Gorey; and letter he received from magistrate Rev W Hughes, Killinick, enclosing copy of printed notice signed by him, Harvey and L Van Williamdorff Richards, stating the January Petty Sessions are to be held in Killinick as usual. Harvey also encloses copy of notice signed by Courttown and Johnson, outlining the boundaries of the Killinick and Broadway Petty Sessions, January 1828. Annotation on reverse giving legal opinion of Richard W Greene. Additional letter from Harvey to Gregory, forwarding letter from magistrate Charles Arthur Walker, Belmont, to Hamilton. Also letter from Courttown to Gregory, forwarding memorial of Killinick magistrates Harvey, Richards, Hughes, Abraham Howlin and Joshua Nunn, to the Lords Justices, requesting that the Petty Sessions be permitted to continue there, as well as duplicate copy of notice signed by him concerning the boundaries of the Killinick and Broadway Petty Sessions, January 1828.

26 Jan 1829-5 Feb 1829

1829