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CSO/RP/1824/21

Letter from Sir Edward Smith Lees, secretary, General Post Office, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, conveying detail of attack on post boy near Kells, County Meath, ‘by two armed men’ and subsequent loss of the ‘entire mail’ bound for Bailieboro [Bailieborough] in County Cavan.

5 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/22

Petition of Patrick J McDonnell, Cong, County Mayo, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of Government aid on account of activities pursued in the service of crown. Includes petition from McDonnell to William [sic] Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking the protection of government. Also includes petition from McDonnell to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, seeking relief and requesting that Government ‘order me to be arrested and protected as I am offered Every Violence in and about the town of Cong in Case I offered my self in marriage to any protestant Lady or Go to Church’. Also includes damp press copy reply from Dublin Castle to McDonnell [partly illegible].

31 Dec 1823-26 Jun 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/23

Letter from James Corry, secretary, Linen Board, 15 Merrion Square, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking a personal interview at behest of Baron Oriel [John Foster] and other concerned parties to discuss the issue of disallowances imposed on by the Commissioners of Accounts. Encloses copy of printed report of a meeting of the trustees of Linen and Hempen Manufacture of Ireland [dated 2 December 1823], dealing with the question of disallowances. Includes copy ‘Account of the Disallowances made by the Commissioners of Public Accounts, on the Accounts of the Trustees of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures of Ireland, for the year ending the 5th of January 1822’. Also account of expenditure by the Linen Board on salaries and ‘Utensils’ for period up to 5th of January 1823. Also printed ‘Observations on Salaries to Officers and Servants of the Linen Board of Ireland, disallowed by the Commissioners of Public Accounts to the 5th of January, 1821’. Also note on power of review exercised by the Lord Lieutenant on the matter of expenditure exclusions under the provisions of a recent act of Parliament.

1 Oct 1822-3 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/24

Petition of Michael Dempsey, Catherine Dempsey and Eleanor Dempsey, Ennis, County Clare, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting free passage to South Wales, Australia, where their father, Paul Dempsey, was transported on a charge of currency forgery. They claim to be ‘destitute orphans, as their Mother is dead’ and being without support have ‘no hopes of escaping misfortune’.

6 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/25

Copy petition of Jane Wright, widow, Bailieboro [Bailieborough], County Cavan, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of pecuniary aid on grounds of lack of financial support. She claims her husband, Robert Wright, died following a fall from his horse while on police duty in County Cork.

c10 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/26

Petition of John Holland, tailor, Galway, County Galway, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking a measure of financial support for himself and his ‘helpless family’. He claims to be the victim of deception at the hands of Edward H Montford, a police officer, whom he assisted with ‘work and labour’.

c8 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/27

Petition of Michael Eades, superannuated gauger, excise department, [Dublin], to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting restoration to his situation of excise gauger or another adequate means of support. Claims that £50 per year is insufficient to support himself and family. He makes reference to a period of military service in the late 18th century as a volunteer and recalls his ‘meritorious Conduct during the [1798] Rebellion’. Refers also to an oversight in the collection of revenue at a paper mills in the Rathfarnham district in County Dublin.

c24 Dec 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1824/28

Petition of Rose Garrett, Ballymoney, County Antrim, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting ‘a passage and maintenance’ to Botany Bay, Australia, or to whatever destination her husband, John Garrett, was transported. Mentions she has a family of four children and her husband was tried in Lifford, County Donegal, by Judge Johnston; with a certificate in support from some of the principle inhabitants of Ballymoney appended to base, signed by William Orr and 15 other individuals.

c24 Dec 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1824/29

Petition of Cornelius Murphy, superannuated tidewaiter, Tralee, County Kerry, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking a measure of remuneration for services provided to the excise department. Claims his period of service was brought to a conclusion because of an inaccurate medical report from ‘an unskillful or prejudiced Doctor’ and complains of insufficient income to support his son at a local classical school. Outlines in detail the full extent of his activities as customs and excise officer which include prevention of import fraud on the brigs ‘Elizabeth’ and ‘Abionea’ as well as seizures of other illicit goods; also claims to have ‘Seized and destroyed Seven Illicit Distilleries’ and made a significant contribution to deterrence of fraud in coal imports.

1 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/30

Letter from Thomas Underwood, Mount Pleasant Avenue, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, offering observations on the matter of the assimilation of the currencies of England and Ireland proposed under the Currency Act [6th of George IV, chapter 79]. Suggests arrangements be carried out by the national banks in conjunction with Government and comments ‘I am not aware that injury or inconvenience could be sustained by any, except Money Brokers, Speculators, & dealers in Exchange’.

1 Jan 1824

1824