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CSO/RP/1820/702

Letter from Thomas Jackson, moral superintendent, Bedford male Asylum, House of Industry, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment of post of assistant governor to House of Industry; encloses letter from Jackson to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, outlining claims to post and stating resolution ‘to alleviate the miseries of the poor committed to my care’; also encloses testimonial letters from John Leland Maquay Jr, Quebec, Canada, and Reverend Henry Lambert Boyle, Church of Ireland minister of Arklow, County Wicklow, in favour of Jackson.

17 Mar 1819-8 Sep 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/703

Letter from John Jewell, late captain, 19th Regiment of Foot, 6 Harcourt Place, Merrion Square, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of revenue surveyor in Dunleary [Dún Laoghaire], county Dublin; includes letter from Jewell to Talbot, seeking post as police magistrate and enclosing copy letters of commendation from General David Douglass Wemyss, Bath, England and Earl Guildford, Sheffield, England; also includes letter from Jewell, Bellevue, near Kilrush, County Clare, to Talbot outlining extent of military service and making application for post in the police establishment, with copy letters of support from Wemyss and Earl Guildford; also includes letter from Jewell reiterating hopes of obtaining position in police.

10 Aug 1820-6 Nov 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/704

Letter from James Jackson, 112 Grafton Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Irish Office, London, England, enclosing copy memorial to members of the House of Commons, England, objecting to proposed measure to discontinue duties on importation of china and earthenware to Ireland; remarks ‘that it would be both unwise and unjust to promote the Interests of one Branch of trade at the expense and risk of the destruction of another’, signed by Jackson and ten representatives of the Importers of China and Earthenware of the city of Dublin.

12 Jul 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/705

File of material relating to case of Thomas Irwin, inspector of stamp duties in Ireland, who is accused of a fraud against the Stamp Office. Includes memorial from Irwin, 6 Ranelagh, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that leniency be shown to him despite his one ‘incaution but fatal act’ and that he ‘may be permitted to enjoy, such proportion of his former salary, to which under the Superannuation Act, he would have been entitled annually’, 6 September 1820; also includes letter from Irwin to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, in which he pleads innocence to charge against him and reasons ‘that you consider my error sufficiently punished by the suspension of Office I have already sustained and by the misery and absolute deprivation of every comfort which my unhappy Children and their Mother on the Eve of her confinement are thereby suffering’, 3 January 1820; also includes memorial from Irwin to Grant, contesting allegation surrounding charge that he received a false receipt for stamp stock from Dominick Daly, distributor of stamps in County Galway, 3 December 1819; also includes certificate of character from William Jameson, captain, 5th Company of the Attorneys Corps of Infantry, in favour of Irwin indicating that he was involved in active service ‘during the Rebellion in this Kingdom in the years 1798 and 1803’, 19 November 1819.

18 Sep 1819-6 Sep 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/706

Letter from Anne Jones, Clonliffe House, Dublin, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, complaining that hardship and poverty have afflicted her family as a direct consequence of loss of patent for Crow Street theatre in Dublin; includes letter from Jones to Chief Secretary’s Office, requesting relief and stating that financial difficulties have arisen ‘in consequence of Mr Norris’s refusal to ratify his agreement for renting the Crow st[reet] theatre’; also includes memorial to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, and letter asking for reply to same; also includes opinion of John Sealy Townsend advising for the information of the Lord Lieutenant that grant of patent was a ‘matter of discretion and not of right’; also includes damp press copy reply from William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle to Jones to state that memorial was presented to the Lord Lieutenant.

10 Aug 1820-4 Oct 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/707

2 letters from Captain M Irving, adjutant and secretary, Royal Hibernian School, Phoenix Park, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of commandant of the Royal Hibernian School, following resignation of Colonel N Blackwell.

7 Nov 1820-8 Nov 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/708

2 petitions of Julia Irwin, 6 Ranelagh, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that relief is extended to her family of eleven children, who ‘have to deplore the melancholy calamity that has befallen them’; refers to the ‘undesigning error’ that saw her husband, Thomas Irwin, an inspector of stamp duties, accused of fraud against the Stamp Office.

2 Apr 1820-28 Jun 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/709

Petition of William Jordan, late peace officer, 21 Little Ship Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting augmentation of pension allowance to 10 shillings per week; mentions period spend as peace officer, especially ‘the Night of the 23rd of July 1803, when the Rebels broke out in Thomas Street one of whom Piked Mr [Edward] Wilson aforesaid in the Bottom of his Belly but Pet[itioner] being convenient instantly shot Dead the Rebel’; refers also to casting his vote as freeman for Thomas Ellis.

21 Jun 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/710

Letter from Thomas Jordan, Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, offering observations and remarks on the state of the country and how best to preserve the peace; notices especially the inclination of ‘Country Gentlemen’ to exaggerate the extent of local disturbances and the ‘artificial means that are resorted to for creating a semblance of tumult and insurrection in the Country’; mentions in particular the case of Robert Gun, and observes ‘on the late disturbances in the West the agitators in this Neighbourhood were busily employed disseminating the most absurd rumours. They were ready to make Oath that the publick Houses in this Town were nightly crowded with Ribbon Men and alleged they were so numerous as frequently to be obliged to adjourn to the fields’; declares himself in favour of the Peace Preservation Act and applauds cautious government: with wise political measures in place, he contends ‘the Union considered by many a National degradation will be viewed as a Blessing screening the bulk of the people from the aggression of comparatively a few intemperate Men’.

15 Sep 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/711

Petition of Grice Johnson, Mallow Lane, Cork, County Cork, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment of post in police establishment; refers to poverty of mother and to father, Francis, a justice of peace and crown, who served in the ‘Bravest manner’ during the 1798 Rebellion. Includes letter from Johnston, Kilfinane, County Limerick, to Talbot, seeking police service alongside his brother in the Limerick constabulary under Major Going, with memorial on same subject.

Apr 1820-26 Aug 1820

1820