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CSO/RP/1824/111

Letter from Henry Townsend, secretary, Irish Fishery Office, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting direction from the Lord Lieutenant on the issue of appropriate traveling and sustenance allowances for officers of the board; with draft response appended to base.

20 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/112

Petition of Joseph Kinross, Catherine Street, Limerick, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to any situation under government. Claims to have been employed ‘as a Clerke [sic] in the War, and yeomanry Departments, from 1st of December 1804 to the 24th of June 1817’, which was subsequently discontinued. He adds he has sole responsibility for the upkeep of 5 children.

24 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/113

Letter from Thomas Philip Vokes, police magistrate, Limerick, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on the fitness of James Shearin to fill a post in police establishment; observes ‘he is perfectly qualified and a deserving man of good character’. Also letter from Major Samson Carter, chief magistrate, Donerile, County Cork, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, acknowledging instructions to appoint Shearin to police but conveying ‘I have not the power of complying Immediately with your wishes’ due to a lack of vacancies. Also memorial from Shearin, Limerick, to Goulburn, seeking extension of financial relief on account of his large family and services to government; claims to have provided information to Henry Harding, magistrate, on attack on dwelling of Reverend Henry Bevan, Bruree, after which Edmund Rourke and John Guinan were convicted, and also on ‘Michael Sullivan who was tried under the insurrection act’. Also memorial from Shearin to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, reiterating his claim for assistance and seeking advance of sum to enable himself and his family to emigrate to America. Also letter from Mathew Barrington, crown solicitor, Munster circuit, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, confirming role of Shearin in the prosecution of offenders and supporting advance of aid for passage to America.

27 Jan 1824-25 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/114

Letter from Henry Harding, [magistrate], Harding Grove, Croom, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, acknowledging declaration for payment of £200 ‘on account of Expenses Incurred by me in the Public Service during the Disturbances in this County’ and requesting advance of a further £100 to cover personal costs. Also letter from Harding to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, expressing appreciation for an undertaking by Government to advance payment of £300 ‘in lieu of Expenses’. Also damp press copy letter from Gregory to Harding [not legible].

23 Jan 1824-3 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/115

Letter from George King, 3rd earl of Kingston, Mitchelstown, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, making case for local treatment of fever and requesting advance of grant of £100 towards completion of a fever house or hospital. Also letter from Kingston to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, reiterating plea for advance of £100 without which the fever house ‘cannot be finished’.

23 Jan 1824-29 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/116

Letter from Richard Martin, MP for County Galway, London, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, seeking post for Martin French on the board of commissioners for stamp duties.

21 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/117

Copy letter from Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, to Dr Henry J Heard, vicar general, Diocese of Cork and Ross, County Cork, requesting return of completed certificates relating to value of church livings. Also letter from Heard to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, expressing view that information is not easily obtainable and offering remarks on the present incomes of the parishes of Castletownsend [Castletownshend] and Ballymartle; encloses certificate indicating that the value of the rectory and vicarage of Castletownsend is £550 per annum. Also letter from [Thomas St Lawrence, bishop of Cork and Ross] to the Chief Secretary’s Office, announcing resignation of Reverend Robert Morritt from the parish of Castlehaven, and remarking upon the value of the holding under the present state of tithe agitation; adds that a substantial protestant congregation is present in the district, the leadership of which would commend appointment of ‘a mild & respectable minister; to neither of which epitaphs I am sorry to add the late Incumbent had any claim’.

17 Dec 1823-23 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/118

Letter from Reverend E Geraghty, Newcastle, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking a response to his application for relief against ‘the unparalleled injuries inflicted on me’ [likely related to the destruction of a glebe house in March 1821].

19 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/119

Petition of Edward Dunbar, late corporal, 58th Regiment of Foot, Westport, County Mayo, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, making complaint and seeking redress over the conduct of Gerald Higgins, magistrate of Westport; alleges on making application to have an affidavit signed ‘he kicked me and struck me several times and put me in publick stocks from 10 o’clock until the our [sic] of 12’. Also damp press copy reply from William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, indicating his statement of complaint does not constitute sufficient proof to warrant further enquiry. Also letter from Dunbar to Wellesley, acknowledging reply and calling attention to evidence of John Walsh, publican of Bridge Street and William [Licett], pensioner, 28th Regiment of Foot, both of whom are willing to act as witnesses in any investigation.

20 Jan 1824-10 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/120

Letter from Alexander Gardiner, late lieutenant, 96th Regiment of Foot, 75 Capel Street, Dublin, to Lieutenant Colonel Meyrick Shawe, private secretary to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, enclosing memorial to Wellesley, requesting appointment to a post of ‘active Employment’; recalls past military experience which included deployment ‘in the suppression of illicit distillation’ and protection of trade on the Grand Canal in the district around Edenderry and Gallen in King’s County [County Offaly], during the social upheaval of 1817. Encloses copy letter from Lieutenant Colonel McCarthy, 96th Regiment of Foot, Killarney, County Kerry, to Major General Sir Henry Torrence [Torrens], offering an unqualified endorsement for Gardiner ‘as an Officer and Gentleman’ and recommending his restoration to full pay.

27 Sep 1819-19 Dec 1823

1823