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CSO/RP/1825/1151

Letter from Richard Willcocks, inspector general of police, Cork, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, relaying an application from Lieutenant Mathew Fitzpatrick for settlement of costs of medical expenses following an assault upon his person at the fair of Ballybuy [Ballybeg], in County Cork. Observes that Fitzpatrick and the other constables concerned have been paid the regular monthly medical allowance by the police establishment to date, 12 September 1825. Encloses cover letter from Fitzpatrick, chief constable of police, barony of East Carbery [West division], with memorial to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting issue of medical expenses which amounts to the sum of £15 for professional attendance by two doctors. Complains he was severely wounded at Ballybuy fair [near Dunmanway] on 5 August 1824 having been ‘violently assaulted by a mob of the peasantry who attacked him with sticks and stones’, 8; 12 September 1825. Also encloses a certificate from Richard Cox Bowden and David H Cox, magistrates of County Cork, declaring that Fitzpatrick was injured in the line of duty [n.d.]. Also encloses individual certificates from Francis Harris and JH Jagoe, medical doctors, confirming their treatment of Fitzpatrick for the wounds inflicted by the mob, 9; 18 September 1824.

8 Sep 1824-12 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1152

File of papers relating to an application from Thomas Smyth [Smith], former police constable, Dunmore, County Galway, for reinstatement following dismissal from the police establishment. Includes memorial from Smyth to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting restoration to his former position in the constabulary. Stresses he has conducted his duties with care for a period of 4 years but has became the victim of a miscarriage of justice following an investigation of a complaint by him against Frederick Carr, chief constable of police at Dunmore. Indicates the charges he brought against Carr were on grounds of misuse of police forage, failure to provide adequate fodder for horses and on general mismanagement of the police stables. Outlines the course of the investigation that followed and complains the chief constables who presided over the enquiry were ‘all biased against him’ and not inclined to show him ‘the colour of Justice’. Protests he was finally dismissed by the inspector general purely on grounds of having objecting to the nature of proceedings in the investigation. Urges that a reference for his good character may be obtained from Major Thomas D’Arcy, inspector general of police for the province of Ulster, or Major George Warburton, superintendent general of police for counties Galway, Clare and Roscommon, 15 November 1825. Also includes memorandum from Warburton to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, confiding his opinion that Smyth is ‘a very ill disposed Person’ and should not be continued in the police establishment, cDec 1825. Also includes damp press copy letter from Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, to Smyth acknowledging his complaint against Carr but stating the Lord Lieutenant has ‘no ground to interfere upon the occasion’, 9 December 1825.

11 Sep 1825-26 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1153

Letter from Jonathan Sisson Cooper and D’Arcy Mahon, commissioners, stamp office, William Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on an application from William Harmer Lowe of County Cork for redress over penalties incurred under the Stamp Act. Indicates they are prepared to discontinue legal proceedings on condition that payment of £5 plus costs be made in the case by Lowe. Returns letter from Lowe, Grenagh Cottage, County Cork, to Lieutenant Colonel Meyrick Shawe, private secretary to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, enclosing a memorial seeking relief from the imposition of legal penalties for the issue of rental receipts on unstamped paper. States that Edward Ring, quartermaster, who brought the charges before the Court of Exchequer, was animated by a feeling of malice arising from an earlier encounter with his brother, George Bond Lowe, a local magistrate; remarks his brother together with Major Samson Carter, chief police magistrate of County Cork, acquitted a person charged by Ring with attacking his house at Ballymagooly in March 1823. Points out the receipts were given merely as a reminder to Ring, who was tenant on the estate of his deceased brother, Reverend James Bond Lowe [who died in a shooting accident while on magisterial duties on the night of 12 January 1822]; he further claims at the time of having received the payments from Ring, he was not in a position to have the necessary stamps added.

23 Aug 1825-20 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1154

Petition of Walter Carlisle, former police sub constable, Forkhill, County Armagh, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting restoration to his former position in the police constabulary. Makes reference to being dismissed for inappropriate use of the tongue and notes in his defence, his father served King and country until his decease in 1810. Also certificate from William Colthurst, chief constable, barony of Armagh, indicating Carlisle has resigned his post as sub constable of police and is paid up to date. States he personally disciplined Carlisle for inappropriate language before a ‘respectable inhabitant’ of Armagh while employed as constable at Keady, in the barony of Armagh.

8 Sep 1825-19 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1155

Petition of George Pigott, Kinnegad, County Westmeath, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting a grant of free passage to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, or another of the North America colonies. States he emigrated to Kingston in Canada in the year 1820 but following ‘many vicissitudes of fortune’ returned to Ireland in 1824. Notes that while in Kingston he found employment as a bookkeeper in a wholesale warehouse but was made redundant due to failure in business; also remarks he worked in the office of the sheriff in 1818 and 1819 in County Westmeath.

18 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1156

Letter from William Kerwin [Kirwin], army pensioner, Thurles, County Tipperary, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a situation in the police establishment of Ireland. Claims to have returned from the East Indies having given 10 years and 6 months of his life to the service to the King with the Bombay regiment.

10 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1157

Petition of Mary Neill, Castledermot, County Kildare, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking permission for herself and family of 6 children to depart for the overseas colony to which her husband is being banished [likely New South Wales in Australia]. Contends her husband Peter Neill, a labourer of Moone in County Kildare, has been ‘innocently led into crime’. At present, she observes, he is being held at Maryborough [Portlaoise], Queen's County [County Laois; Leix], awaiting transportation.

13 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1158

Petition of Richard Thorpe, preventative surveyor [excise], Belfast, County Antrim, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to the situation of assistant in the excise office in the city of Belfast or another position in the port establishment of Ireland. Complains his present post pays no salary and he has a wife and 5 children to support. Recalls an earlier involvement in mercantile activity which came to a halt due to pecuniary difficulties. Certificate added to base in his favour signed by George Augustus Chichester, 2nd Marquis of Donegall. Also petition from Thorpe to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking a situation of employment under government. Alludes to his service to the crown in the 1798 Rebellion during which he fought at 8 separate battles, including Vinegar Hill in County Wexford and at Castlecomer, County Kilkenny. Cites amongst the names of supporters those of Sir Ulysses Burgh, MP for County Carlow, and Richard White, 1st Earl of Bantry.

14 Sep 1825-23 Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1159

Petition of John Foy, pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, Mountmellick, Queen’s County [County Laois; Leix], to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a situation in the police establishment of any county in Ireland. Claims to be of good character having served as corporal with the 48th regiment of foot under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington [Arthur Wellesley].

13 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1160

Letter from William Kemmis, crown solicitor, Kildare Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on a claim for the sum of £10 paid out by the district collector of excise for County Kilkenny [Thomas Knox Magee] sanctioned in error by the Lord Chief Justice [Charles Kendal Bushe]. Explains the matter arose in the context of the issue of compensation to the persons who acted as informers [Patrick Hickey, John Bible and John Plymouth] in a crown case at the assizes of County Kilkenny against Michael Bryan, who was ‘convicted of having coining implements in his possession’. Upon Magee making claim for a reimbursement of the payment, he was refused by the commissioners of excise on grounds the reward under the act made reference to was for copper money not silver, 12 September 1825. Encloses letter from Bushe, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, Kilmurry House, Kilfane, Thomastown, County Kilkenny, to Kemmis, admitting his error in signing a declaration for the payment. Expresses hope that steps may be taken through the Attorney General [William Conyngham Plunket] to protect the district collector of Kilkenny against personal loss, 25 August 1825. Also encloses letter from Magee, Excise Office, Kilkenny, to Bushe, complaining over the refusal of the board of excise to issue credit in lieu of his payment to the informers in the case and seeking interference, 24 August 1825. Also encloses letter from Francis Thompson, secretary, commissioners of revenue [inland excise], Dublin, to Magee, attaching a transcription of the report of John Edwards, solicitor, who gives opinion the applicants are not entitled to a reward in this case, but have a claim under a different act, 17; 23 August 1825.

17 Aug 1825-12 Sep 1825

1825