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CSO/RP/1824/271

Letter from Reverend Charles Henry Minchin, Inspector of Longford jail, County Longford, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, seeking reply to an earlier request for permission to remit funds on account of Longford Savings Bank to Dublin Castle, without postal charges. Also letter from Minchin to Gregory, requesting further information on the prospect of sending mail connected with banking business to the castle free of postage and noting that the 'transmission of money, in order to make the necessary Lodgments, will be attended with considerable expense’.

23 Feb 1824-16 Mar 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/272

Letter from Robert Harding, Derawlin [Derraulin], County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting permission to repossess ‘a valuable doubled barreled fowling piece’ forcibly taken along with other items of arms by ‘an armed party of Insurgents’ who attacked his dwelling in the forenoon of the 19 May 1823. He stresses his entitlement to receive the weapon from magistrate Major Maxwell, to whom it was surrendered, on grounds of his having given evidence together with his sisters, in the prosecution of 6 offenders.

25 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/273

Letter from Richard Martin, solicitor for the casual revenue, 37 Gloucester Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, providing a determination on the case of Berry Norris, deputy post master, Mohill, County Leitrim, who was irregularly fined the sum of £10 for failure to attend jury at a court session at Carrick on Shannon. Returns memorial from Norris, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting exclusion from a fine imposed for missing jury service on grounds as a deputy post master he is exempt by act of Parliament from such duties. Also returns letter from Sir Edward Smith Lees, secretary, General Post Office, Dublin, to Gregory, reciting the relevant parliamentary act in confirmation that post office officials are not obliged by law to complete jury service.

22 Jan 1824-4 Mar 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/274

Letter from P O’Meara, police sergeant, Ennis, County Clare, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, seeking elevation to the post of chief constable in the police establishment or an equivalent situation. He claims ‘my conduct since I joined Major Warburton’s Police in this County shall bear the Strictest Scrutiny’. He expresses his desire for promotion as he expects to suffer a reduction in salary of £10 per annum in his current post.

27 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/275

Letter from Sir Charles William Flint, secretary, Irish Office, London, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, returning letter from William Shaw Mason, secretary, Records Commission, Record Tower, Dublin Castle, conveying expectations that an abstract of the population of Ireland shall be published by the Easter recess; requests that ‘the persons employed in framing it should be paid for what they have already done’ and stresses the ‘value of the work’, the particular labour required in making the compilation as well as the careful economy exercised in its production. Also letter from John Rickman, [12 New] Palace Yard, London, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reflecting on the nature of labour and various costs associated with the preparation of abstracts of population of England for the census of 1801, 1811 and 1821. Also letter from Mason to Goulburn observing that the ‘principle item in it is the charge for forming the Parliamentary Abstract’ and indicating that he is endeavoring to expedite the process of printing.

23 Jan 1824-15 Mar 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/276

Letter from Thomas Philip Vokes, police magistrate, Limerick, County Limerick, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, expressing opposition to the grant of further aid to Michael Donovan ‘at least previous to the next assizes where he is bound to prosecute persons charged with an insurrectionary murder’. Also observes ‘It is unnecessary to enter into a report on the several paragraphs of his memorial as some of them are true and some palpably false’. Returns memorial of Donovan, Rathkeale, County Limerick, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of more substantial remuneration for provision of information on regional miscreancy. Claims to have given evidence in prosecution of 5 men ‘who robed [sic] and murdered the post Boy Conveying the Mail from Rathkeale to Shanagolden’ and also claims to have enabled barrister [Thomas] Lloyd of Beechmount to confiscate ‘more than thirty stand of arms’ in 1822. He complains of the limited means afforded him through payment of 10s a week from Vokes and alleges his house was burned and several attempts were made to assassinate him; signed and attested by J Brown and two other magistrates of County Limerick.

25 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/277

Petition of Charles Bateman, Clonakilty, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to the post of gauger or any other situation under government. Refers to previous application and inclusion of name on list during tenure of Robert Peel [Chief Secretary, 1812-1818]; he states he has the support of Lord Ennismore [William Hare].

24 Feb 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/278

Letter from Colonel James Crosbie, MP for County Kerry, Ballyheigue Castle, Tralee, County Kerry, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, expressing support for the application of Baron Ventry [Sir William Townsend Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry] to have his title changed to that of Baron Burnham. Regrets ‘it has been informed to me that the Lord Lieu[tenan]t has thrown some impediment in the way’ and remarks upon Ventry's loyalty and ‘the powerful weight & influence he has in this County’. Also memorial from Ventry to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting permission to have his title changed to that of Burnham, the name of the estate he inherited in County Kerry. Confides his principle reason for wanting the change is that his present title ‘is obnoxious to a disagreeable & unpleasant interpretation in the Continental languages’. Also damp press copy letter from Gregory [to Ventry] offering a response to the application [quite faded].

28 Feb 1824-[23] Mar 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/279

Letter from Thomas Prendergast, barrister, 18 Grafton Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, indicating he will commence circuit business on 13 March and that during his absence his responsibilities in the Cursitor’s Office, Dublin, will be undertaken by Bartholomew Galvin.

2 Mar 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/280

Letter from Sir Charles William Flint, resident secretary of Irish Office, Irish Office, London, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, conveying consent of the Chief Secretary of Ireland [Henry Goulburn] on items included in accounts of the Royal Canal Company for half year ending 30 September 1823, except for a charges connected with a journey by two directors to London on legal business. Encloses report from Captain Daniel Corneille, John Armit and Henry R Paine, directors general of Inland Navigation, Inland Navigation Office, 11 Merrion Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, offering observation on certain charges contained in half year accounts, in particular, to that of contracting with owners of jaunting cars for conveyance of public from main urban centres west of the River Shannon to the passage boats; also makes reference to costs added for extension of canal from Killashee to Longford, County Longford, and to trips to London by directors.

13 Feb 1824-23 Feb 1824

1824