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NAI REFERENCE: |
CSO/RP/1824/1831 |
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Letter from Edward L Hull, secretary, commission for improving the harbour of Donaghadee, County Down, concerning harbour commission accounts for 1824 |
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Letter from Edward L Hull, secretary, commission for improving the harbour of Donaghadee, County Down, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, conveying accounts for quarter year ending 5 January and 5 April 1824 [not present] and requesting their return after inspection and approval of the Lord Lieutenant. Observes that accounts for the quarters ending 5 July and 10 October 1824 ‘are in course of preparation’ and will be submitted in due course. |
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1 item; 3pp |
DATE(S): |
30 Nov 1824 |
DATE EARLY: |
1824 |
DATE LATE: |
1824 |
ORIGINAL REFERENCE: |
1824/10542 |
NAI REFERENCE: |
CSO/RP/1824/1832 |
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Letter from John Smith, late of County Limerick police, Rathkeale, County Limerick, seeking settlement of arrears of wages and expenses |
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Letter from John Smith [also spelt Smyth], late of County Limerick police, Rathkeale, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking payment of expenses claim, mainly for salary accrued whilst under command of the late Major Richard Going, chief police magistrate. Observes his claim is not for supply of necessities but consists of a demand for arrears of wages and expenses for shoes amounting in whole to £10 13s 11d. Also memorial from Smith to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking settlement of account. Mentions his dwelling was made use of by crown witnesses, and admits of having been dismissed from the constabulary due to a dispute with another policeman named Bevan. Annexes overleaf a breakdown of his account. |
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2 items; 6pp |
DATE(S): |
c25 Nov 1824-10 Dec 1824 |
DATE EARLY: |
1824 |
DATE LATE: |
1824 |
ORIGINAL REFERENCE: |
1824/10543 |
NAI REFERENCE: |
CSO/RP/1824/1833 |
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Petition of John O’Neill, James Keaty and Peter McCreanor, Killenaule, County Tipperary, seeking government assisted emigration to Canada |
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Petition of John O’Neill, James Keaty and Peter McCreanor, Killenaule, County Tipperary, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, complaining of distress and seeking government assistance with emigration for themselves and families to British America [Canada]. Mentions having spent time in [military] service and they claim to be ‘suffering Loyalists’. |
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1 item; 3pp |
DATE(S): |
3 Dec 1824 |
DATE EARLY: |
1824 |
DATE LATE: |
1824 |
ORIGINAL REFERENCE: |
1824/10544 |
NAI REFERENCE: |
CSO/RP/1824/1834 |
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Petition of inhabitants of town of Killeshandra, County Cavan, seeking an investigation of police conduct at town fair |
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Petition of inhabitants of town of Killeshandra, County Cavan, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking an ‘open and impartial enquiry’ into alleged police misconduct on fair day, Monday 8 November 1824. Observes that a riot at the fair was exasperated because the town’s police ‘abeted [sic] a party of reputed Orange men in outrageously assaulting many unoffending persons’. Complains of the insufficiency of an earlier investigation into the riot by the inspector general of police and notes that reference was not made to local magistrate, Robert Henry Southwell of Castle Hamilton. Memorial signed by 35 persons. [Contains list of names not given in this description] |
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1 item; 4pp |
DATE(S): |
27 Nov 1824 |
DATE EARLY: |
1824 |
DATE LATE: |
1824 |
ORIGINAL REFERENCE: |
1824/10545 |
NAI REFERENCE: |
CSO/RP/1824/1835 |
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Letter from James Evans, Roscrea, County Tipperary, requesting permission to dedicate his intended publication on emigration to Canada to the Chief Secretary |
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Letter from James Evans, Roscrea, County Tipperary, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting permission to dedicate his intended volume on emigration to the Chief Secretary. Conveys through it his aim is to show the ‘decided superiority of the British Colonies [upper and lower Canada] over any other part of America’. Refers to his knowledge of America and Canada and declares intention in his publication to oppose the acceptance of ‘false and exaggerated’ views of the United States of America and its ‘boasted superiority’. Remarks his work will be of immediate use to emigrants of all classes, providing detail on land acquisition, prices and general living; it is to be published in Dublin and will be more than 200 pages in length, and about 3 shillings to buy. |
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1 item; 4pp |
DATE(S): |
2 Dec 1824 |
DATE EARLY: |
1824 |
DATE LATE: |
1824 |
ORIGINAL REFERENCE: |
1824/10547 |
NAI REFERENCE: |
CSO/RP/1824/1836 |
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Petition of Stephen Burke, chief constable of police, Bantry, County Cork, requesting leave of absence to attend to family law business |
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Petition of Stephen Burke, chief constable of police, Bantry, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting permission to take leave of absence from police duties for a period of two months, beginning 10 January 1825, in order to attend to law business in connection with a purchase of property. Adds if the issue is not attended to it will ‘materially injure‘ his own and his mother’s interests. |
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1 item; 3pp |
DATE(S): |
1 Dec 1824 |
DATE EARLY: |
1824 |
DATE LATE: |
1824 |
ORIGINAL REFERENCE: |
1824/10548 |
NAI REFERENCE: |
CSO/RP/1824/1837 |
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Cover letter and memorial from the church wardens of the parish of Fanlobbus, Dunmanway, County Cork, concerning prosecution of Sabbath profaners |
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Cover letter from James Doherty, F Murphy, Richard Sullivan, John Stewart and John Atkins, church wardens, parish of Fanlobbus, barony of East Carbery, Dunmanway, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting information and direction on how to pursue individuals living in adjacent parishes on charges of profaning the Sabbath. Indicates that application was made to local magistrates on the matter, but without satisfaction since they felt unable to act against offenders who lived at a distance of 10 or more miles. Also complains of not knowing how to press for punishment those who are found drunk in a public place. [Names of parish overseers have been cut away from both cover letter and memorial]. |
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2 items; 4pp |
DATE(S): |
2 Dec 1824 |
DATE EARLY: |
1824 |
DATE LATE: |
1824 |
ORIGINAL REFERENCE: |
1824/10549 |
NAI REFERENCE: |
CSO/RP/1824/1838 |
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Letter from Major J Finch, governor, Royal Hospital, Dublin, concerning payment of reward for recovery of jewellery stolen from Robert Shaw of Bridge Street, Belfast, County Antrim |
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Letter from Major J Finch, governor, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking determination of the Lord Lieutenant on payment of a reward for recovery of stolen jewellery by 6 members of the 1st battalion of the rifle brigade, Belfast, County Antrim, 29 November 1824. Encloses letter from Colonel A Norcott, commander of 1st battalion of the rifle brigade, Belfast barracks, indicating that the question of the reward has been placed in legal hands and requests that Lieutenant General Lord Combermere [Stapleton Cotton], commander of forces in Ireland, seek advice from the Attorney General [William Conyngham Plunket]. Registers his objection to proposal by Robert Shaw [jeweller of Bridge Street, Belfast] to pay those who recovered the property £2 13s each, on account of the value of the property being around £500, 27 November 1824. Encloses transcription of letter from Robert Montgomery, attorney, Castle Place, Belfast, to Norcott, stating that the 6 ‘bugle boys’ are not entitled to ‘any portion whatever of the reward’, 24 November 1824; also copy reply from Norcott expressing view that the claim of the 6 boys to a proportion of the reward is a valid one, and indicating that a communication will be made with Combermere seeking redress in the event of a continued objection, 25 November 1824. Also encloses affidavit from the 6 claimants, James Butler, Thomas Murray, Richard Blythe, Richard Pope, Daniel Burns and John Livingstone, bugle boys, stating on the 19 November 1824 they discovered 26 gold and silver watches hidden in a ditch and in a subsequent investigation of the area, with assistance from Shaw’s brother, a further 50 watches were recovered; statement made before William G Carthy, magistrate, County Antrim, 26 November 1824. Also encloses copy of printed public notice offering a reward for prosecution of the offenders or discovery of the stolen jewellery. |
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5 items; 8pp |
DATE(S): |
26 Nov 1824-29 Nov 1824 |
DATE EARLY: |
1824 |
DATE LATE: |
1824 |
ORIGINAL REFERENCE: |
1824/10550 |
NAI REFERENCE: |
CSO/RP/1824/1839 |
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Letter from Archibald McDougall, Belfast, County Antrim, warning of influence of the Roman Catholic Association |
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Letter from Archibald MacDougall, Belfast, County Antrim, to Robert Peel, Secretary of State, London, complaining of progress of the Roman Catholic Association and seeking measures to confine its sphere of influence. Suggests some means of limiting the organisation and asserts in particular that those in employment of the crown should be prevented from subscribing to the Catholic rent or attending association meetings. Observes that the lower orders are driven to distraction by the speeches and writings of the leaders and mislead by stories of miracle performing priests and the baneful prophecies of Pastorini, who in his 'General history of the Christian Church', predicts the overthrow of Protestantism in 1824. |
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1 item; 6pp |
DATE(S): |
27 Nov 1824 |
DATE EARLY: |
1824 |
DATE LATE: |
1824 |
ORIGINAL REFERENCE: |
1824/10551 |
NAI REFERENCE: |
CSO/RP/1824/1840 |
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Petition of W Callahan McCarthy, land surveyor, Tralee, County Kerry, complaining over non enforcement of capias writ by Sergeant Huggard |
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Petition of W Callahan McCarthy, land surveyor, Tralee, County Kerry, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining that Sergeant Huggard of Killarney has failed to execute a capias writ under the Insurrection Act, despite repeated applications. Protests at Huggard’s derogatory dismissal of his plea and notes the person he intends to have apprehended has been in police custody ‘for other offences’. Annotation beneath by John Sealy Townsend, King's Counsel and legal advisor to CSO, states that application for redress should be made to the judges of assizes or quarter sessions. |
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1 item; 2pp |
DATE(S): |
5 Nov 1824 |
DATE EARLY: |
1824 |
DATE LATE: |
1824 |
ORIGINAL REFERENCE: |
1824/10553 |