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CSO/RP/1825/1661

Petition of Gordon O’Neal [Neil], Manister, near Croom, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting a situation of employment in the police establishment. Asserts as a trained armourer, he would be a useful asset to the constabulary and would keep their weapons in a proper state of repair. Recalls having spent a term of 7 years in the artillery corps of the East India Company, as a consequence of which he suffered temporary deafness due to the ‘play of Cannon and Mortar’. Having returned home and availed of medical care, however, he remarks, his hearing is now restored. With certificate recorded beneath confirming O’Neal’s good character signed by John Croker, magistrate of County Limerick; attested by 3 other persons.

26 Aug 1825-6 Sep 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1662

Cover letter from Robert Simpson, agent and marshal, High Court of Admiralty of Ireland, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a memorial to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining that his authority as marshal and entitlement to particular fees is undermined by the actions of the King’s proctor. Alleges the rights of his patent are being subverted through the proctor’s referring cases to persons other than himself or his deputy. States he has made application for an investigation of the matter to the court. Requests a full investigation of the question by the commissioners of courts of justice as to the ‘duties, fees, and Emoluments’ of Court of Admiralty and asks that the opinion of the law officers of the crown be ascertained on the case. Encloses copy memorial [from Simpson] to Sir Henry Meredyth, surrogate to His Majesty’s High Court of Admiralty in Ireland, drawing attention to the infringement of his rights and subsequent loss of income. In seeking to explain how his authority has been circumvented by the action of the court proctor, he refers to the case of the royal fish discovered on the strand of Lacken, County Mayo; the case of derelict timber found on the coast of Cork, County Cork; the case of an unmanned vessel [the ship ‘Bellona’] found at Tramore, County Waterford; and the case of ‘a Log of Mahogany’ found in the water at the harbour of Cork. He requests the court register be commanded to compile a return of warrants not sent to the marshal or his deputy, giving full details of the transaction. In addition, he asks in future all business be transacted through him as marshal or his deputy and that no current process shall be acted on without the express order of the court. [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

18 Oct 1825-5 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1663

File of material relating to settlement of accounts relating to labour on the census of Ireland of 1821. Includes ‘An Account of the expenses incurred under the Population Act, from the 28th of November 1824 to the 28th of August 1825’, certified by William Shaw Mason, census supervisor, Record Tower, Dublin Castle, 20 September 1825. Also includes letter from Mason to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, calling attention to some ‘urgent & distressing applications’ from persons previously engaged in work on the census and seeking settlement of account, 20 October 1825. Also includes letter from John Rickman, Palace Yard, [Westminster, London], to Jonathon Johnson, clerk, Irish Office, Westminster, London, responding to an enquiry from Goulburn as to fees received for labour associated with the population abstracts in the years 1801, 1811 and 1821, 8 November 1825. Also includes printed copy of ‘An Act to provide for the taking an Account of the Population of Ireland, and for the ascertaining the Increase or Diminution thereof’; printed by George Grierson and Martin Keene, His Majesty’s Printers, Dublin, 1820. [See also description CSO/RP/1824/275].

1820-15 Nov 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1664

Note from Thomas Popham Luscombe, deputy commissary general, commissary general's office, Dublin, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, incorporating a ‘Return of Bank of Ireland Tokens Exchanged by Commissariat Officers from 3rd to 7th December 1825’. Table below includes column headings for ‘Stations’, ‘Date’, and ‘Amount’ and indicates a currency exchange took place in Templemore, County Tipperary, Ennis, County Clare, and in Maryborough [Portlaoise], Queen's County [County Laois; Leix].

9 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1665

Petition of Bolton Waller, former collector of the port of Limerick, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking a reinvestigation of allegations against him for monetary fraud and for misuse of fuel allowance funds. Provides a full account of charges and gives an extended defence of his conduct; stresses his hope of exonerating his character and securing a reversal of a dismissal order against him. Refers to his career with the customs department between September 1808 and August 1823, when he was removed from his post. Claims he was forced to represent himself at trial on a charge of defrauded an excise charity fund of £7 and of making false representation to obtain fuel allowance on accommodation at Kilrush, County Clare. States, for the record he is ‘perfectly innocent…of any criminal intention’ in the matter but points to the questionable behaviour of the former port collector at Limerick, John Jephson.

[1825]

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1666

Letter from Lieutenant John James Hough, commander of His Majesty’s cutter ‘Basilisk’, Royal Harbour of Kingstown [Dunleary; Dún Laoghaire], County Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting his arrival at dock with silver to the value of £40,000 and £1,045 in copper coin from the Royal Mint, London. Indicates the money is for use of the Bank of Ireland and asks that directions be given for its distribution.

13 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1667

Letter from the Archbishop of Armagh [John George Beresford], The Palace, Armagh, County Armagh, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, indicating his desire to have Reverend Coddington appointed to the church living of Piercetown, County Meath along with the living of Kilmessan, following his loss of situation. Also letter from Beresford to Goulburn, asking his appreciation be communicated to the Lord Lieutenant for placing the disposition of the parish [Piercetown] in his hands. He also conveys his disappointment at not having the opportunity to meet the Chief Secretary and his wife in a social context.

29 Nov 1825-7 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1668

Letter from Major Alexander Taylor, Major Thomas N Edgeworth and Alderman Richard Smyth, commissioners for paving, Paving House, [Corporation for Paving, Cleaning and Lighting the streets of Dublin], Mary Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning a call for compensation in lieu of the cost of restoring pavement broken by the contractors for public lighting, 7 December 1825. Encloses copy letter from William Little, secretary, Paving Board, to William Kenifeck, secretary, Hibernian Gas Light Company, 2 Foster Place, Dublin, seeking settlement of an account for £4, 580 11s or a down payment of £1,000 ‘as may suit the convenience of the Companies’ [the Hibernian and the Dublin Gas Light Company], 19 November 1825. Also encloses copy letter from Kenifeck to Little drawing attention to previous deliberations with government suggesting the cost of pavement repair might be done at ‘cost price’ rather than the maximum charge allowed under the act of incorporation. Expresses the displeasure of the directors of the HGL Company at being ‘made Debtors for the whole at the maximum price of two shillings per [square] yard’. Asks for a fresh evaluation of the demand and requests a new account be drawn up, 2 December 1825. Also encloses an extract from the contract for lighting the city of Dublin with gas, making reference to the obligations on the gas companies to make good expenses for repair of pavement ‘in the manner prescribed by Law’. Also addition letter from the commissioners for paving to Goulburn, sending details of the opinion of the Attorney General [William Conyngham Plunket] and the Solicitor General [Henry Joy] and also of John Sealy Townsend, King’s Counsel and legal advisor to the Chief Secretary’s Office, on the question of the charge demanded for repairs [none present], 31 December 1825.

19 Nov 1825-31 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1669

Note from Thomas Popham Luscombe, deputy commissary general, commissary general's office, Dublin, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, incorporating a ‘Return of Bank of Ireland Tokens Exchanged by Commissariat Officers between the 7th & 10th December 1825’. Table below includes column headings for ‘Stations’, ‘Date’, and ‘Amount’ and indicates a currency exchange took place in Templemore, County Tipperary, at Ennis, County Clare, at Tipperary, County Tipperary, and at Maryborough [Portlaoise] in Queen's County [County Laois; Leix].

14 Dec 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1670

Letter from Sir Henry Meredyth, surrogate judge, Court of Admiralty, 25 Rutland [Parnell] Square, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning use of the police constabulary to protect a ship wreck off the coast of County Cork. Encloses letter from William Richardson, proctor, High Court of Admiralty in Ireland, Poolbeg Street, Dublin, to Meredyth, offering information on the wreck thought to be part of the American vessel ‘Columbus’ now lying off the coast in the barony of Kinnelea [Kinalea], County Cork. States the wreck was claimed by the crown under warranty of the court with assistance from Henry Hardy and is presently under the watchful eye of a party of salvagers. Refers to a letter from Goulburn, on the propriety of employing members of the constabulary in watch duty at the wreck, and observes that if required officers of the crown could be used.

5 Dec 1825-10 Dec 1825

1825