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CSO/RP/1824/61

Petition of Patrick Mulhollan, discharged seaman, Liserdowling [Lissardowlan], near Longford, County Longford, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking appointment to a position in the police establishment. Refers to difficulties in securing employment on account of a long period at sea and emphasises his suitability for the force ‘having Been trained to the use of Small Arms for Seven years’.

13 Jan 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1824/62

Petition of William Ryan, late 59th Regiment of Foot, Cashel, County Tipperary, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking appointment to a position in the police establishment. Claims to have spent 9½ years in military service, to have fought under Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington [Arthur Wellesley], and was wounded during the storming of St Sebastina [Sebastian].

c14 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/63

Letter from Major William Walsh, 5 North Strand, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing statement of a claim to pension provision for five female members of his family. He sets out his case for aid on grounds that government failed to fully compensate him for losses to property in the 1798 Rebellion as a ‘Suffering Loyalist’. Refers also to the empathy shown by the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury [Wiltshire, England] to his cause. Also letter from Walsh to Goulburn, remarking he was unable to attend for a personal interview due to ‘severe indisposition’ and offering a reminder of his application for aid to support his female relatives. Also memorial from Walsh to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking advance of a pension for his wife, Jane Walsh, ‘to be continued to any surviving Daughters that may be unmarried at Her Death’. Also additional memorial from Walsh, 5 Fairview Avenue, Dublin, to Wellesley, reiterating his plea for financial provision for his wife and four daughters; also mentions personal attempt to procure employment under government and expresses appreciation for the appointment of his second son as chief constable in the police establishment.

Dec 1823-30 Aug 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/64

Letter from Frederick Darley and John C Graves, chief magistrates, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, declaring their opposition to an application from Henry McArdle, a hotel keeper of Exchequer Street in Dublin, for relief from payment of police license duties. Encloses a copy letter from Lancelot Bomford, chief clerk, 6th division of police, College Street, Dublin, to the chief magistrates, asserting that since McArdle’s premises is a ‘second rate’ establishment, it attracts a level of taxation ‘only one half of that which is payable by the principle Hotel Keeper’. Returns memorial from McArdle to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, pleading hardship in business and requesting liberty from the imposition of the tax or penalty for non payment.

c3 Jan 1823-14 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/65

Petition of John O’Flaherty, 7 Aungier Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking promotion to the position of summonister and clerk of the estreates in the Court of the Exchequer, lately vacated through the death of holder, James Dance. Emphasises his experience as clerk to the previous holder of that post, and stresses his qualifications to receive the salary of almost £150 per annum.

12 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/66

Letter from William Seale, Hibernian Hotel, Dawson Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post of employment and complaining of the imposition of heavy taxes on the will of his father, Lieutenant Colonel Seale, who was employed for 28 years in East India. He reveals the will at issue saw a ‘small property’ bequeathed to him by his father as ‘Friend’ but consequently found stamp duty amounted to 5% rather that the usual 1%.

13 Jul 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/67

Letter from William Chambers, surgeon, 22nd Regiment of Foot, Buttevant Barracks, County Cork, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of costs and expenses arising from his treatment of Mr Lillies, who was wounded by a military gun shot at the scene of a haggard fire in vicinity of Ballyhey. He appends a table showing an ‘Account of Articles supplied’ for the alleviation of Lillies. Also letter from Chambers to Goulburn acknowledging receipt of ‘the first half of a ten pound Bank of Ireland note’.

12 Jan 1824-21 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/68

File of material relating to application of Daniel Beere, 1st secretary, Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancers Office, Court of the Exchequer, Dublin, for compensation against losses to official income because of changes in legislation. Includes memorial from Beere to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining of loss of earnings of £200 per year due to the operation of the Recognizance Act, and of losses amounting to near £200 annually due to ‘having been deprived of the Office of Pursuivant’. He encloses an explanatory statement respecting the loss of official duties brought about by the introduction of Recognizance Act, c4 July 1823. Also includes letter from Dublin Castle to the Earl of Donoughmore [John Hely Hutchinson], Knocklofty, Clonmel, County Tipperary, acknowledging letter in respect of Beere’s claims and offering observation ‘it appears to be a case entirely for the consideration of the Legislature’, 14 July 1823.

8 Jul 1823-16 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/69

Letter from the merchants, traders and manufacturers of the town of Belfast, County Antrim, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reproducing part of text of memorial to the Lord’s Treasury [London] seeking repeal and removal of remaining restrictions on the export trade between Ireland and Great Britain. They attribute the growth of the manufacturing base in the region, especially the expansion of calico and muslin production, to a relaxation of union duties; signed by 91 persons including Hugh Montgomery, banker, Joseph Stevenson, cotton manufacturer, and Messrs Lepper and Company, cotton manufacturer. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

c18 Jan 1824

1824

CSO/RP/1824/70

Letter from Richard Harman, Merrion View, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, proposing the retention of convicts in Ireland and their use on public works schemes such as that as Kingstown harbour [Dún Laoghaire] in County Dublin. He recommends the use of a hulk for their secure confinement overnight and also as a base for work in clothing manufacture. Also letter from Harman to Goulburn, recollecting advice to the Duke of Richmond [Charles Lennox] on the mooring of a hulk to receive convicts at the of Kingstown. Suggests that such convicts as are convicted of lesser offenses ‘be employed in Cleaning the Streets and other works under the Paving Board’, a practice which ‘would strike more terror in the Minds of the deluded, than Ten thousand Transported, and it would do away [with] a most shameful and disgraceful practice, of employing Females as Scavengers from the House of Industry’.

14 Jan 1824-20 Jan 1824

1824