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CSO/RP/1818/201

Petition of Thomas Conroy, 55 Mary Street, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, making application for a situation. Outlines service to date and expresses view that on basis of his experience he entertains ‘some claims to the situation of County Surveyor’.

20 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/202

Letter from John Townsend, High Sheriff of County Cork, Cork, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, asking that enclosed address [not extant], expressing sorrow at ‘late melancholy occasion’ affecting the Royal Family, be conveyed to the Prince Regent. Encloses newspaper cutting of address to Prince Regent from the prominent noblemen, clergy, gentry and freeholders of the county of Cork.

15 Dec 1818-20 Dec 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/203

Petition of Thomas Conroy, Engineer, 55 Mary Street, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting assistance with application for post of county surveyor. As he is now confined in the Sheriff’s prison for non payment of debt, and unable to attend to application for post, he requests that the statutes for defense of city of Dublin, to be sent to office of commissioner of engineers; mentions also that he intends issuing patents for two inventions. Encloses letter from James Johnston asking Conroy to attend for interview at 21 Mary Street, Dublin, and to bring ‘such documents and drawings as you can produce to prove your fitness for the office of County Surveyor’.

1 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/204

Letter from Jeremiah and John Murphy, keepers of County Gaol, Cork, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting that articles of clothing and shoes for use of convicts are provided. Also that a return be made respecting subsistence costs of convicts from 20 June to 30 December, to ensure ‘a speedy train of payment’. Certification of authenticity of report added to base of letter by 'Newman', local inspector of jails.

5 Feb 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/205

Letter from Alexander Peacock, Telegraph Office, Newry, County Down, to General Needham MP, Caxton, Cambridge, England, requesting assistance in obtaining government proclamations and other advertisements for newspaper the ‘Newry Commercial Telegraph’. Includes copy of petition signed by John O’Neill, MP, and local gentry O’Neill, Kilmorey, Caledon and Annesley, addressed to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, stressing their paper is ‘strictly loyal and constitutional’ and that they have met with ‘a strong opposition from a violent Catholic party who have commenced and carried on, for a time another Newspaper in the same town called the Ulster Recorder’; also letter from Peacock to Lord Castlereagh, London, on above subject enclosing copy of petition. Also letter from Grierson stating ‘I don’t think at present anything could be taken from the old newspapers to apply it to the Payment of another new Paper’; but remarks if the grant for the next quarter can be extended, ‘perhaps we can manage it for the Newry Paper’.

25 Sep 1817-2 Dec 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/206

Petition of James Campbell, Portadown, County Armagh, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, making application for a situation. Relates that he was obliged to abandon his business due to circumstances and that he lost two sons in the Peninsula due to the ‘demon of War’ and a third son died while serving in the Royal Navy.

24 Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/207

Letter from Mrs Margaret Clarke, 4 Margaret Place, Mountjoy Square, Dublin, to Chief Secretary’s Office, requesting that she receive an annuity of £200 granted to her late husband, Edward Clarke. Relates information about husband’s role in development of textiles industry in Palmerston locality, a concern disturbed by the ‘internal disorders’ of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century; also refers to his role as local magistrate having ‘private regard for the stability of the Throne and the security of the Country’. Emphasizes loyalty during the uprising of 1798 and again in 1803, at which time, she claims he was ‘first man who discovered and made known to Mr Marsden, the then secretary of state, the desperate plot of the misguided [Robert] Emmet’.

10 Dec 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/208

Memorandum stating that a letter, dated 3 February, sought by William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, cannot be found, for it ‘may have been a private Communication’. The mislaid item may be related to an abstract of returns of fever patients in the hospitals.

Feb 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/209

Petition of John Ellis, soldier of His Majesty’s 32nd Regiment of Foot, Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, applying for a situation and making query on army discharge documentation. Claims to have served in various military units for a period of twenty years or more, part of which included action in service with a Queen’s County [Laois] regiment, in Tyrone, during the rebellion of 1798. Alleges that his incarceration in Four Courts Marshalsea for debt is due to the dishonest actions of an attorney employed by him to recover a property. Encloses various papers connected with his claim including results of a search of army discharge certificates and letter from Peter Fleming, to Gregory, written to highlight plight of Ellis.

17 Feb 1818-24 Feb 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/210

Letter from Joseph Farran, second Deputy Clerk of the Pleas, Law Exchequers Office, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing copies of accounts [not extant] showing returns ‘pursuant to the Act of the 56th of the King, Chap. 122’. Confirms that originals have been lodged in the office of the Auditor General.

11 Feb 1818

1818