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CSO/RP/1818/321

Letter from Dr Robert Harding, Cork, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting supply of blankets for the hospital at the convict depot in Cork. Refers to price of blankets, fever amongst the prisoners and mentions that ‘clothing is nearly completed’, a matter of some importance as ‘some of the convicts have been almost literally naked’.

25 Oct 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/322

Petition of David Hastings, 106 Abbey Street, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting government relief. Claims that having attended the ‘protestant school of St Mary’s’, he relinquished prospects of gaining a trade when ‘chosen by Mr Duncan the organist of the Castle Chapel to make one of a new choir then forming’; mislead by assumption of government support, he found ’when unable to perform an almost instant part in the choir was thrown on the world’.

Nov 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/323

Letter from Dr Robert Harding, Cork, County Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting additional bedding for use at the convict depot in Cork. Complains of spread of dysentery among the convicts, especially those without space in the hospital, and makes request for ‘18 to 20 mattresses with a few pair more of blankets’ and other necessities wanting for lack of funds; reports that they are ‘now tolerably free from fever in the Depot having but one man in it and since the clothing was had colds and pneumonic afflictions have very considerably diminished’.

26 Nov 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/324

Petition of Simon Hatch, supervisor of Watch Tax, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking appointment to post of keeper of intended new prison at Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia. Endorsement of application added to bottom of memorial by Sir William Alexander, Superintendent Magistrate of Police.

1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/325

Petition of Rachel Hickson, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking appointment to post of matron of new penitentiary near Harold’s Cross, Dublin. Claims that she has no present means of support and that after death of her husband, John Hickson, attorney at law, her family were ‘left entirely dependent on her Brother Philip Prossor of Rathfarnham who was Murdered by a Party of Rebels in the Insurrection of 1798’. Endorsement of application added to bottom of memorial by W Walker, Recorder of Dublin.

3 Dec 1817

1817

CSO/RP/1818/326

Letter from Alderman Nathaniel Hone and Dr Carleton, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting to know a convenient time for a meeting regarding ‘Dublin business’.

23 Dec 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/327

Letter from Thomas Haynes, Bandon Road, Cork, County Cork, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of account for supply of milk to Convict Depot, Cork. Having unsuccessfully applied to Francis Davies Murphy, Keeper, Convict Depot, Cork, for payment of £200 owed, he appeals for settlement being ‘in great want of the money’.

8 Dec 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/328

Letter from Robert Hamilton, 25 Gardiner Place, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting interference on matter connected with retention by Arthur Hume of probate documentation presented for payment and administration of will. Alleges that Hume refused official signature and retained warrant as he claimed that Hamilton’s brother was ‘indebted to him at the time of his decease’; petitioner states that his deceased brother received from Hume a certificate giving him ‘a complete Discharge for any Debt’; also discusses legal avenues open to him and observes ‘Mr Hume is not warranted in availing himself of his Official Situation to do an Act of Injustice’. Encloses letter from Hamilton to Grant acknowledging reply and asking again for assistance as upon recent application to Hume for documentation and signature he ‘received a complete refusal’.

16 Dec 1818-26 Dec 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/329

Letter from Henry Yeo, secretary of Howth Harbour Commissioners, Customs House, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing statement of expenditure, 15 June to 16 October 1818, for provision of mooring chains, buoys, a harbour boat and sea charts to facilitate use of Howth harbour by the packets sailing from Holyhead. Accounts also provide detail of expenditure on, for example, accommodation, wages, cable and spar houses and cost of fixing diving bells; encloses letter of response from Grant to Commissioners, indicating consent of Lord Lieutenant towards accounts received, 21 December 1818. Also copy of letter from Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, to Commissioners of Howth Harbour, confirming the Lord Lieutenant’s approval of expenditure on mooring chains, buoys, a harbour boat and other necessities, 8 July 1818.

8 Jul 1818-21 Dec 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/330

Letter from Dr William Harrison, 62 Queen Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting a post at a temporary hospital or as a medical inspector. Provides detail of military background and service in 5th Dragoon Guards in Ireland, 36th Regiment of Foot, and under Wellington in Peninsula campaign; encloses two supporting letters providing character reference and endorsement for Harrison, from Arthur Gordon, Hamilton, Scotland, and W Cross. Also reply from Dublin Castle, to state that an offer could not be made as the governors of the House of Industry operate subject to a regulation ‘limiting the number of Medical Attendants’ at hospitals under their jurisdiction, December 1818.

17 Aug 1817-24 Dec 1818

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