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CSO/RP/1820/862

Petition of Edward Lyon, lieutenant, Royal Navy, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to position of inspector of fisheries or other post of employment; claims that he served on the seas until the peace of 1814, until which time he was reduced to half pay; mentions as character reference the name of Captain Mangin of the Royal Navy.

23 Feb 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/863

File of material relating to complaint of Rowley Lascelles, sub commissioner, Board of Records, 15 Ely Place, Dublin, against William Shaw Mason, secretary, Records Commission, Record Tower, Dublin Castle. Includes extract of letter from L Kelly, sub commissioner, Chief Remembrancer’s Office, Board of Records, to the Lord Chancellor [Thomas Manners-Sutton] contending that Mason failed to produce any order or authority from board for introduction of reduced working hours and consequent decrease in remuneration, 13 March 1820; also includes document entitled ‘The Specific Charges against Mr Shaw Mason’ outlining a series of allegations such as poor management of records in custody, incompetency in production of calendars and other publications, misuse of influence in securing appointments and financial mismanagement, composed by Lascelles, Dublin, 23 March 1820; also includes letter from Daniel Banfield Hickie, 159 Great Britain [Parnell] Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, asking for intervention ‘as it is likely that an attempt will be made tomorrow to have me dismissed from the Commission’ and asserting that Mason ‘has no power of appointing and consequently no power of dismissing a Clerk at a higher Salary than 60 Guineas’, 24 March 1820; also includes affidavits from Lascelles and Edward O’Reilly and other notes prepared in pursuit of case.

13 Mar 1820-24 Mar 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/864

Copy letter from Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, to directors of Westmorland Lock Hospital, Dublin, conveying orders for regulation of hospital which include reduction of two physicians and two assistant surgeons from staff, removal of ‘any Patient afflicted with contagious Fever’ to appropriate institution, termination of office of Inspector of Dietary and Accounts, appointment of James Hendrick to post of accountant, a reduction in salary of resident steward and apothecary, with remuneration of nurses, servants and auxiliary staff ‘to be settled by the new Board’; also requests to have opinion of board respecting question of hospital chaplains. Includes list of directors of the Westmorland Lock Hospital.

4 Mar 1820-4 Mar 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/865

Letter from Richard Grace, moral governor, Richmond Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, indicating that at present vacancies exist for female patients in the institution and ‘expects in a few days to have accommodation for male Lunatics’.

2 Aug 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/866

File of material containing reports and letters concerning a fever epidemic in the Lying-in Hospital, Dublin. Includes copy report from Dr SB Labatt, master, Lying-in Hospital, to the governors of Lying-in Hospital, indicating state of institution for past five years, and providing detailed analysis of spread of disease and measures adapted for its prevention, 4 February 1820; also includes copy letter from Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, to governors of the Lying-in Hospital, offering observation on crisis and relaying determination of Lord Lieutenant ‘that admissions into the lying-in Hospital should for the present be suspended’; he further suggests that alleviation of distress and hunger might be provided on a domestic basis and that temporary hospital accommodation should be found for more extreme cases, 30 April 1820.

4 Feb 1820-11 Jul 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/867

Letter from Major Henry Charles Sirr, Head Police Office, Dublin Castle, to Thomas Taylor, clerk, Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, enclosing report concerning ‘Logue’, agent to the Bishop of Kildare [Charles Lindsay], who ‘was robbed of about forty nine pounds, a gun, Some blankets, Sheets and other articles’; implies that suspicion falls upon ‘Bryan’, a servant of Logue’s, who spent part of the evening in Cribbins public house; retails in postscript opinion of Mr Goodman of Prosperous, County Kildare, ‘that Cribbins keeps a most Villainous house and that all the mischief that is Done in that part of the Country is generally formed in Cribbins house to his belief’.

22 Nov 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/868

Letter from Patrick Leahy, Thurles, County Tipperary, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting recognition and government support for his ‘scientific invention’ and making reference to its practical application by the commissioners for improving bays in Ireland; reveals that his creation is ‘a small set of Tables by which any person of ordinary knowledge in science, and unskilled in Trigonometrical operations, will be able from a bare inspection into these Tables, to ascertain the distance of any object on Land or Sea within a distance of Thirty miles to such a degree of accuracy as must at once surprise, as well as highly gratify, the learned and the curious’; includes letter from James Bamba, Ballymoney, County Antrim, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, asking on behalf of Leahy, for ‘patronage to enable him to secure his priority of claim; whether by Patent or in whatever way your Excellency may think proper to direct’; also includes letter from Edward Wilson, chief magistrate, Thurles, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, reporting on experiment with Leahy’s device and making recommendation; also includes explanatory sheet entitled ‘Description and Use of the New Tables of Inaccessible Distances’.

19 Jan 1820-29 Jan 1821

1821

CSO/RP/1820/869

Letter from Samuel P Lea, secretary, Commissioners of Crown Lands, Treasury Chambers, Dublin Castle, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, indicating that on behalf of the commissioners for enquiring into Crown lands in Ireland, he will report on application of Reverend James Langrishe for grant of commons in parish of Newcastle, County Dublin, and if desired, will ‘direct the Land to be surveyed, and valued’; encloses memorial of Langrishe, archdeacon of Glandelagh [Glendalough], to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting that a portion of ground in the parish, amounting to about one English acre, awarded by commissioners for Crown lands, be granted to the present parish incumbent and successors ‘as an Augmentation to the Glebe land, which is at present insufficient for the Accommodation of the Clergyman’; also includes short note on query.

27 Jun 1820-9 Mar 1821

1821

CSO/RP/1820/870

Letter from Sir William Stamer, lord mayor of Dublin, Dublin, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, reporting in favour of Sir James Riddall, who ‘claims compensation for pecuniary Losses he sustained by the removal of the Corn Market from Thomas Street to the Corn Exchange’.

21 Feb 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/871

Letter from WM Benson, register and secretary, St Patrick's Lying-in Hospital, Dublin, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, enclosing ‘An account of the Deliveries & Deaths from October 1st 1819 to May 20th 1820 Inclusive’; account reveals that of a total number of maternal deliveries of 1612, 124 concluded in death: of these ‘102 were occasioned by Puerperal Fever & the remaining 22 by complaints which patients had on admission or by accident incident to labours’, signed by Dr Samuel Litton.

20 May 1820

1820