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CSO/RP/1820/521

Letter from George Grace, Clonmel, County Tipperary, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting that his newspaper The Clonmel Herald, continues to enjoy publication of government proclamations, worth £40 a quarter year, that total having been recently reduced to half. Recounts early career during which he was admitted to Bar in 1788, and as magistrate and newspaper publisher; claims that as a direct result of loyalty to government, he ‘lost 97 subscribers from my Paper, amongst that Class to whom the Insurrection act was unpopular: and I was very perfectly well appraized that more than one plan was laid for my assassination’.

30 [?Dec] 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/522

Letter from WH Ferrar, Police Office, Belfast, County Antrim, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting for information copies of acts of parliament that have subsequently passed into law since last session.

6 Jan 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/523

Petition of Charles Fay, tanner, Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting his intervention in forthcoming parliamentary act for the relief of insolvent debtors; asks that the influence of the Chief Secretary is directed ‘to Introduce a Clause therein in which those persons who have been Remanded under the present Insolvent Act may have an opportunity in Common with other Debtors to Remove the Degradation put upon them there being Hundreds of Wretched Victims in this Marshalsea who look with Anxious Eye to the Ensuing Act to relieve them from their long Continued Persecution’; claims that he has been confined for seven months ‘within the Melancholy Walls of the Four Courts Marshalsea’ due to the exertions of creditors and that his wife and family are in poverty; prior to imprisonment he was resident at an address on Patrick Street, Dublin.

Feb 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/524

Letter from P Fullam, 49 Mary Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of inspector of stamps, lately held by Archibald Hamilton. Outlines qualifications for situation and declares intention ‘to procure the Interest of two or more members of Parliament’ to speak on his behalf; with draft reply by Grant to state that ‘the Government have an arrangement in view, which will on this occasion render a new appointment in this Dep[artmen]t unnecessary’.

31 Jan 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/525

Letter from Francis Fox, late sheriff of Dublin city, Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post in the police establishment. Refers to imprisonment for ‘trifling debts’, loyalty to government and caliber of family connections.

8 Feb 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/526

Letter from C Fitzgerald, secretary, House of Industry, 5 Leinster Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of collectorship of excise at Clonmel, County Tipperary, at salary of £500 per year.

9 Feb 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/527

Letter from George Finiston, Brecart, Toomebridge, County Antrim, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, tendering proposal for alleviation of taxes connected with operation of eel fisheries in Ireland and Scotland; asks for tax concessions and pleads that such an enterprise ‘would furnish employment for a number of poor persons, in erecting weirs, in making Nets, in fishing curing…to Coopers in making Barrels, and to those employed in the manufacture of Salt, [and] cordage…it would furnish a large quantity of cured Fish, which the poor people here esteem as good winter provision’.

27 Jan 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/528

Letter from Percy Jocelyn, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, Ferns, County Wexford, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, requesting an audience with the Lord Lieutenant following loss of school master of Wexford school, a ‘most melancholy crisis’; encloses letter from Reverend P Needham, diocesan schoolmaster, Wexford, County Wexford, to Jocelyn, asking for directions concerning arrangements for care of property after his departure for Drogheda, County Louth.

5 Jan 1820-6 Jan 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/529

File of material relating to controversy surrounding appointment of Roman Catholic chaplain to Newgate Bridewell, in Dublin. Includes letter from Reverend William Fitzpatrick, Roman Catholic curate of St Michan’s parish, North Anne Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, relaying that the Grand Jury of Dublin raised objection to appointment of a Roman Catholic chaplain to Newgate prison, stating that such an appointment was not permitted under terms of the 50th act of George III; outlines difficulty contingent upon employment of one of the other chaplains to carry out spiritual duties at Newgate and declares hope ‘that the spirit which heretofore has arbitrarily opposed all conciliation, will not henceforth, armed as it appears to be with the weapon of the Law, become more appeasable’, 19 January 1820; also includes copy letter from Fitzpatrick to Robert White and W Wood, high sheriffs, Dublin, offering his services as chaplain to Newgate prison and with observations upon his unsuccessful claim before the Grand Jury for compensation for services to prisoners, a claim disregarded, he feels, due to a ‘misconception… respecting the authority or interference of the most Rev[eren]d Doctor [John Thomas] Troy, in the appointment of Roman Catholic chaplain of Newgate’, 11 February 1819; also includes copy letter from Doctor Troy, 3 Cavendish Way, Dublin, to Alexander Montgomery, secretary, Grand Jury of Dublin, 14 Frederick Street North, Dublin, acknowledging right of that body to appoint a chaplain to Newgate and advancing nomination of nine persons out of which a suitable candidate might be drawn; emphasises ‘that the appointment is to be made from amongst those who are competent according to our rules to exercise the Ministry within the precincts of the New Jail’, 18 May 1819.

11 Feb 1819-28 Jan 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/530

Letter from Nassau Forster, Rutland, County Donegal, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, reporting discovery of a bottle containing note found on shore of Arran Island, off the west coast of Ireland, placed in the sea by crewmen of His Majesty’s ship Newcastle, on 20 June 1819; reproduces note which requests that finder have published in a newspaper the place of discovery, nautical bearings, date and contents of note placed in bottle, for purposes of ‘determining the true direction and strength of the Florida Gulph [sic] stream’, signed by James Napier, captain of Newcastle; with short draft reply likely written from Dublin Castle.

4 Jun 1820

1820