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CSO/RP/1825/331

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Sir Joseph Carncross [Cairncross], Booterstown, County Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, offering recommendation for Mr Ovenden as candidate for the post of inspector of fountains in the liberties of the city of Dublin. Remarks he ‘can vouch for the regularity and good conduct’ of Ovenden.

6 Mar 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/332

Letter from Edward Hendrick, [Inspector of Lighting with Paving Board], 18 Mary Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing a memorial to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment as inspector of fountains in the liberties of the city of Dublin, previously held by James Pride.

4 Mar 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/333

File of material relating to the establishment of a post office steam packet service between the harbours of Donaghadee, County Down, and Portpatrick in Scotland, and appointment of a harbour master to Donaghadee. Includes letter from Norris M Goddard, agent for the packet boats [General Post Office, England], Donaghadee, to Edward L Hull, secretary to the harbour commissioners of Donaghadee, expressing a desire to meet with the harbour commissioners to discuss preparations to facilitate reception of the mail steam packets. Outlines the need for essential infrastructure and equipment and draws particular attention to the need for a competent harbour master to supervise and oversee the arrival and departure of the packets, 11 February 1825. Also includes letter from James Lemon, Donaghadee, to Charles William Vane Tempest Stewart, 3rd marquis of Londonderry, Seaham, Stockton on Tees, England, outlining his claim to be appointed as harbour master of Donaghadee. Admits his chances of being accepted for the position of post office packet agent are slim, given the overriding influence of local magnate Arthur Blundell Sandys Trumbull Hill, 3rd Marquis of Downshire, and the harbour commissioners; also encloses copy certificate in Lemon's favour signed by members of Belfast chamber of commerce, bankers and merchants, signed by Captain Lenox Thompson, royal navy, Carrickfergus, County Antrim; also copy certificate signed by Henry Brown and 23 other ship owners [on list stating ship name, tonnage, and place of origin], 22 December 1824; 21 February 1825. Also includes letter from Hull, Donaghadee, to the marquis of Londonderry, making case for appointment of his own son, Arthur Hill Hull, as harbour master. Refers to his own extended period of public service and underscores his ‘fair claim to any little Patronage’ available to him. Observes as to the person recommended for the post by the marquis [James Lemon] ‘his appointment would not under any circumstances be approved of by the Majority of the Commissioners’, 18 February 1825. Also includes copy letter from Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, to the Marquis of Downshire, expressing regret that his recommendation for Arthur Hill Hull as harbour master has been decided against by the Lord Lieutenant in favour of Lemon, 4 April 1825.

22 Dec 1824-12 May 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/334

File of material relating to evaluation of Irish peerages considered to be extinct, compiled for the purposes of nominating a replacement peer of Ireland as provided under the Act of Union. Includes copy letter from William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, to Thomas Kemmis and William Kemmis, crown solicitors, [Kildare Street, Dublin], enclosing a statement compiled by Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, for consideration of legal counsel on ‘presumed Extinctions in the Peerage of Ireland’ relating to the following personages: Charles Henry Coote, 7th Earl of Mountrath, John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore and William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont, 5 July 1822. Also includes copy outline of crown case seeking determination of counsel on the extinct peerages attached to Prince Edward, 1st Earl of Dublin, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, James Cuffe, 1st Baron Tyrawley and John Preston, 1st Baron Tara, with opinion on base from the Attorney General [William Conyngham Plunket]; encloses various copy certificates and constats relating to investigation, 1 July 1822: 17 August 1822. Also includes copy outline of crown case seeking determination of counsel on the extinct peerages attached to Patrick Dillon, 11th Earl of Roscommon, Thomas James Warren-Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, and Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie, with opinion on base from the Attorney General [William Conyngham Plunket] and the Solicitor General [Henry Joy]; encloses various copy certificates and constats relating to investigation, 21 December 1800: 21 February 1825. Also includes letter from Betham, Office of Arms, Lower Castle Gate, Dublin Castle, to Gregory, enclosing ‘A List of Irish Peerages in right of which claims to vote at the Election of Representative Peers for Ireland have been preferred to the House of Lords or which have been referred by His Majesty, or the Prince Regent to the House since the Union of Great Britain and Ireland’, 14 April 1825. Also includes letter from Betham to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a ‘Statement relative to Extinctions in the Peerage of Ireland’. Comments the document was created in order to clarify the question of ‘What constitutes an Extinction so as to empower the Crown to create a peer of Ireland under the Act of Union?’, 17 October 1825. [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

21 Dec 1800-17 Oct 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/335

Letter from James Tyrrell, agent, 65 Lower Mount Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing copy of memorial from the inhabitants of the city of Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking permission for the British Gas Light Company to open pavements in Dublin for the purposes of supplying gas to the city. Claims the company are capable of vending ‘Gas of very superior quality…at a considerable reduction of price’ but more importantly will counteract the growth of a monopoly now that the Dublin Gas Light Company and the Hibernian Gas Light Company have merged with the United General Gas Light Company of London. Also original of memorial from the inhabitants of Dublin to Wellesley, signed by Drury Jones, lord mayor of Dublin, and 136 other signatories. [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

17 Jan 1825-29 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/336

Letter from Major Alexander Taylor, Alderman Mark Bloxham and Thomas N Edgworth, commissioners for paving, cleaning and lighting the streets of Dublin, Paving House, Mary Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, conveying a contract has been put in force for lighting the city of Dublin with gas, with work to be finished on 5 October 1825. Remarks the agreement has the sanction of the Attorney General [William Conyngham Plunket] and the Solicitor General of Ireland [Henry Joy]. [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

12 Apr 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/337

Letter from Messrs Fleetwood and Darley, attorneys and crown prosecutors, 38 York Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing report of prosecutions against persons accused of producing or handling counterfeit currency at the spring assizes of 1825. Lists those who came before the court in counties Louth, Antrim, Down, Longford, Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Clare, Cork, Waterford, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Westmeath and Queen's County [County Laois; Leix], and provides brief details of committal agency and progress of prosecution.

20 Apr 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/338

Letter from Hugh Hamill, secretary, Hibernian Mining Company, Commercial Buildings, [Dublin], to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting a couple of copies of a survey of the lake of Killarney, County Kerry, which had been forwarded to the Chief Secretary’s Office for the purpose of being lithographed. Indicates the charts are required for use by their mining engineer, Thomas Weaver, who had made earlier application to Mr Herbert of Cahernane, County Kerry. Also letter from Hamill, Hibernian Mining Company, 44 Upper Sackville [O'Connell] Street, Dublin, to Gregory, expressing appreciation for receipt of the map of Killarney lake.

23 Mar 1825-2 May 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/339

Letter from Michael Mortimer, secretary to the grand jury of County Waterford, 32 Dawson Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, sending the plans and specification for construction of a new bridewell and courthouse in Dungarvan, a copy of the grand jury presentment, a memorial from the work committee and a draft contract [none present]. Expresses hope that the work might be sanctioned and commenced without delay, 20 April 1825. Also letter from Robert Robinson, assistant secretary, Board of Works, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, reporting approval of plans for the erection of the buildings in Dungarvan, County Waterford, 29 April 1825. Encloses copy letter from Francis Johnston, architect and inspector of civil buildings, Architect's Office, Dublin Castle, to Robinson, expressing general satisfaction at the plans, specification and estimate submitted for the new prison and courthouse; recommends that windows intended to be placed in the male corridor overlooking the female courtyard of the prison should ‘be kept up as high as the ceiling will admit, and also to be so sloped upwards that no communication can be had through them’, 28 April 1825.

20 Apr 1825-29 Apr 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/340

Petition of James Charles Mulligan, Tullyconnaught House, near Banbridge, County Down, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting advance of funds to aid construction of a bridge over the River Bann, 3 February 1825. Encloses copy of grand jury presentment indicating a total sum of £331 18s 7d has been raised and will be paid to overseers Mulligan and William Scott for the erection of the bridge ‘on the read leading from the eastern side of the County of Armagh by Poyntzpass and Loughbrickland to Ballynahinch and Donaghadee in the Townland of Tullyconnaught’ in County Down. Signed by Walter Bourne, clerk of the crown for County Down [with address at Harcourt Street, Dublin], 31 January 1825. Also copy petition from Mulligan to Wellesley, reiterating call for financial assistance from government to complete bridge, 2 April 1825. Also second copy of presentment signed by Bourne [no date]; with note on back from John Sealy Townsend, King’s Counsel and legal advisor to the Chief Secretary’s Office, stating that no existing act provides for advance of funds in this case, 22 April 1825.

31 Jan 1825-22 Apr 1825

1825