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CSO/RP/1820/942

Letter from Alexander MacDonnell, proprietor, Limerick Gazette Office, County Limerick, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting that the Stamp Office be authorised to continue supply of stamps to him for a ‘few months’ in order that he might continue in business and settle outstanding debts due that office of £200; includes copy reply from Grant relaying that by law, ‘the Commissioners are prohibited from issuing Stamped Paper, to any Newspaper Printer who shall be in arrears for Advertisement Duty’; also includes letter from MacDonnell, to Grant regretting that he has ‘been compelled to suspend the publication of the Limerick General Advertiser’ and to enclose letter of support from Thomas Spring Rice, MP; also includes letter from MacDonnell, 13 Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, to Grant reiterating appeal for ‘indulgence’ in order to resume publication of a medium ‘devoted to the interests of the constitution, and the support of Religion, Morality and the Laws’; also includes letter from MacDonnell to Grant discussing possible measures for continuation of production including a change of newspaper title.

26 Oct 1820-7 Dec 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/943

File of papers relating to proposals from Archibald MacDougall for improving the economic and social state of Ireland. Includes letter from MacDougal, Belfast, county Antrim, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to situation of employment, 14 December 1818; also includes letter from Archibald MacDougall, Belfast, to Grant enclosing printed advertisement for publication entitled ‘A Treatise Written With a View to Promote the Interests of Ireland’, 6 April 1819; also includes letter from Archibald MacDougall to Grant with suggestions for improving the state of Ireland with particular consideration of regulation for illicit distillation, employment of poor in fisheries and on canals, emigration, duties of high constables and clerks of the peace, horse and cattle theft, unlicensed hawkers, smuggling and duty on boats, 14 May 1819; also includes letter from Archibald MacDougall to Grant with observations on a bill for regulation of the Irish fishing industry, 3 June 1819.

14 Dec 1818-3 Jun 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1820/944

Petition of William Warburton McMahon, late midshipman, Royal Navy, 50 Sackville [O'Connell] Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to position of ‘Gauger or tide Waiter or some other active Situation’; claims to have served in the Royal Navy for five years and had a period on His Majesty’s ship Bulwark; also recounts that his father, Colonel Thomas McMahon, held rank of Brigade Major of yeomanry in Ireland and acted as barrack master of George’s Street jail, Dublin, and latterly of Clonmel in County Tipperary, where he died on duty.

18 Jul 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/945

Letter from Andrew Dunn, secretary, Maynooth College, County Kildare, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing on behalf of trustees of the Roman Catholic collage at Maynooth, a copy of revised statutes, for presentation before the Lord Lieutenant; also note from Dunn offering clarification on areas on statutes that required some adjustment; statutes are written in Latin and signed by Bartholomew Crotty, president, and countersigned by Grant.

16 Oct 1820-24 Oct 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/946

Letter from Miles McKeon, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, indicating that he proposes to make a personal call to discuss scheme for generation of greater income to government from ‘a certain Department of His Majesty’s Revenue Completely neglected’, and to solicit a situation of employment.

28 Dec 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/947

Letter from Baron J McClelland, judge, Gardiner Place, Dublin, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, offering observations on the second report of the Commissioners of Inquery, with particular emphasis on allegations of abuse in Irish legal system and activities of ‘Pollock’.

5 Mar 1821

1821

CSO/RP/1820/948

Copy letter from Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, to William Shaw Mason, Secretary to Records Commission, Record Tower, Dublin Castle, conveying on behalf of the Lord Lieutenant his appointment as officer in charge of returns concerned with ‘taking an Account of the Population of Ireland and for the ascertaining the Increase or Diminution thereof’.

21 Nov 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/949

Letter from Edward Mitchell, clerk, Secretary’s Office, Paving House, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to ‘some more eligible situation’ as his present salary is ‘very small’; claims to have served with the 1st Regiment of Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, that he is related to the Ensor family of County Armagh, and has the support of Major Taylor and Charles Hope, MP. Includes reply from Grant to state ‘I cannot hold out hopes of being enabled to have you provided with a more eligible appointment’, also slip indicating that Mitchell’s salary as clerk of the minutes is £100 per annum.

4 Nov 1820-1 Mar 1821

1821

CSO/RP/1820/950

Petition of Jeremiah McShea to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to position of porter or turnkey at New Botany Bay, Australia; claims to be ‘an old soldier that served for many years in the army, particularly on foreign Service…and at the capture of the West India Islands where I was severely wounded and blown up by explosion of gun powder at the Siege of Fort Edward’; refers also to enclosed testimonials [not extant] and support of Lord Newcomen and his clerk, ‘Kingston’.

11 Apr 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/951

Printed certificate of discharge for Jeremiah Marnane, corporal, 1st Regiment of Rifle Brigade. Indicates that he was born in the town of Limerick, County Limerick, that his period of service was 3 years and 74 days, his conduct ‘Good’ and that he was discharged due to a ‘reduction of the establishment of the Battalion’; with receipts handwritten on back of document for monetary allowances granted on cessation.

30 Nov 1818-11 Dec 1818

1818