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CSO/RP/1824/31

Letter from the Earl of Bandon [James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon], chairman of petty sessions, [Barleyfield], Ballinspittle, County Cork, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, seeking the creation of an appropriate remuneration structure for duties performed by court clerks. Mentions English regulations and expresses aspirations for payment of fees on a hierarchical basis.

18 Dec 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1824/32

Letter from W Sterne, half pay military officer, Littlemount, Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, seeking a post of employment as a means of providing for his family. Mentions his friendship with Henry Hobhouse [Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, London] and alludes to past assistance.

9 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/33

Letter from Patrick Kelly, Thomas Street, Limerick, County Limerick, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, lamenting the decline of the city salmon fishery due to substantially thefts on stock. He remarks that ‘breeding fish and fry, have been nearly annihilated, for want of due Protection’. Encloses memorial to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to the post of superintendent of inland fisheries [on the River Shannon]; with certificate in his favour added to base, signed by Sir Hugh Dillon Massy and 37 other persons. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

7 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/34

Letter from Reverend John Barrett, [magistrate and Church of Ireland clergyman], Navin, County Donegal, to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, expressing enthusiasm for the introduction of the Irish Constabulary Act to the county. He remarks also on the benefits to be expected from the tithe act, which he hopes will remedy this ‘most unwise of taxes’. Through the effects of such sanguine legislation he anticipates the disappearance of ‘jobbing’ by grand juries and hopes to ‘hear no more of Captain Rock’.

1 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/35

Letter from Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, Office of Arms, Lower Castle Gate, Dublin Castle, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a list of the peerages of Ireland ‘which have been attainted since the revolution’, a task it was found ‘attended with more trouble and to occupy a longer time than I at first contemplated’; list overleaf contains 18 names, with title and date. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

9 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/36

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Meyrick Shawe, private secretary to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Phoenix Park, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, indicating the sanction of the Lord Lieutenant on the appointment of William Henry Hamerton to the choir of the Dublin Castle chapel and requesting the ‘necessary notification may be made to the Treasury’ and other relevant departments.

5 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/37

Letter from Alderman Frederick Darley, chief magistrate, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing surprise at an account in a morning paper of the proceedings of the Catholic Association. Upon seeking the article in question, he states ‘I immediately sent for the reporter to account for his report’. Encloses letter from SN Elrington, reporter, 74 Dame Street, Dublin, to Darley, explaining he was in attendance on the evening in question and departed after ‘the acting Secretary declared the meeting adjourned’. He adds ‘I have heard the debate took place at a late hour’ and the report was provided by Richard Lalor Sheil [a leader of the Catholic Association].

12 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/38

Anonymous letter signed ‘AB’ to the Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, advocating the creation of a fund for alleviating those distressed landed proprietors whose properties are subject to encumbrance and heavy interest rates. Explains the substance of his proposal which he anticipates ‘would enable the landed proprietors to reside amongst their tenantry, cherishing and encouraging industry and morality and opposing in very shape ignorance & vice’.

12 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/39

Letter from JB Fitzsimmons, [barrister], Sandymount, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, commenting on a successful arrangement with the 'committee of Finance & City leases' which will bring an annual saving to the city corporation of £4,797 4s 2d; adds he hopes to soon conclude outstanding business in respect of the estate of Clonturk [County Dublin]. Also letter from Fitzsimmons to Goulburn, stating that despite his comments of yesterday he 'endeavored to do all the Justice in my power to the Irish Government’.

10 Jan 1823-17 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/40

Letter from Henry Allen, Greenan Woolen Factory, near Ballinacor College, Rathdrum, County Wicklow, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, recalling acts of past loyalty and seeking restitution for all losses sustained on commercial property as ‘a Suffering Loyalist’. He emphasises his commitment to government in spite of giving public support to Catholic Emancipation. Encloses memorial to Wellesley, outlining application for advance of funds for the reestablishment of his manufacturing concern, destroyed in the 1798 Rebellion [on account of its use as a military barracks]. Also encloses copy affidavit of Joseph Holt, Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin, [given before magistrate James Blacker] stressing the political integrity of Allen whom is also incarcerated in prison due to indebtedness. Also encloses copy of ‘A Proposal for employing numbers of the Poor, and increasing the Plantation of Forest Trees in Ireland, for the Consideration of Government’. Includes letter from Allen to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting financial assistance in support of his factory and making reference to ‘an old Distillery, and very large Malt Houses, and Dwelling House’ which he may need to sell to Mr Haigh in order ‘to discharge some small Debts I owe’. Also letter from Allen to Goulburn, providing names of several prominent character witnesses including Hugh Howard, ‘formally Colonel of the Wicklow Militia’, Arthur Guiness and Sir Robert Shaw.

2 Jul 1819-10 Jan 1824

1824