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CSO/RP/1830/41

Three letters by Dominick Browne, magistrate, Castlemacgarrett [Castlemagarett], Claremorris, [County Mayo], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing a petition and endorsing the compensation asked for; eventually acknowledging receipt of half the sum. Including the petition in question by John Burke, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, given on oath and signed by J E Strickland, magistrate, County Mayo, for Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, asking for compensation for his recent detention in Castlebar jail on being mistakenly apprehended for Michael Connelly (charged with a murder in Castlecomer, County Kilkenny).

5 Jan 1830-17 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/42

Letter from [Sir] John Harvey, [Inspector General], Kilkenny, [County Kilkenny], to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, enclosing and recommending petition from Capt J Dyas, Sub-Inspector, Naas, [County Kildare], asking for one month’s leave of absence for private affairs.

5 Jan 1830-6 Jan1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/43

Letter from Elizabeth Gaffney, widow, Barrack Street [and Manse], Tullamore, [County Offaly], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, asking for her and her sons aged ten and eleven to be put on the compassionate list for some relief; referring to her late husband John Gaffney, police officer, who died from an injury sustained at Birr, County Offaly, while on duty. [Date by postal stamp.]

6 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/44

Letter from Charles Rainsford, Lieut half-pay, 67th South Hampshire Regiment of Foot, Swords, County Dublin, to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, enclosing his memorial for Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], applying for a post on the prison service about to be established.

1 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/45

Letter from John V Thompson, Cork, [County Cork], otherwise Berwick upon Tweed, [England], surgeon to the forces in the Munster recruiting district, to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, referring to his researches on the fauna of Irish coasts and his publication ‘Zoological researches and illustrations’, asking for pecuniary assistance towards further instalments; also including a letter from the Institut de France, Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris, and a covering letter to Percy enclosing Thompson’s work ‘Flora of Berwick on Tweed’.

10 Aug 1829-12 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/46

Letter from Peyton Sheals, Chief Constable of police, Glenties, Ardara, [County Donegal], to William Gregory, [Under Secretary], Dublin Castle, enclosing a petition for Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], asking for promotion to stipendiary magistrate or ‘pay clerk’. Including a previous petition to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle (undated), and copy references from Henry Maxwell, [4th Earl of] Farnham, County Cavan, [Sir George] R Fetherston [baronet MP], Ardagh, County Longford, and [the Earl of] Enniskillen [John Cole, 2nd Earl Enniskillen], Townley Hall, [County Louth].

6 Oct 1829-8 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/47

Letter from George Moore [MP], Kippure Lodge, Blessington, [County Wicklow], to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, registering his coolness regarding the new Protestant Colonization Society of Ireland, but believing in its object being ‘purely practical’, and a tool to diminish pauperism and extend agriculture in Ireland.

2 January 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/48

File of correspondence between government, the Cork magistracy, and Cork tradesmen, regarding a new plan for a police establishment in the city, following the decision to withdraw military from Cork barracks by 1 November 1829. Including early observations by [Major General Sir George] R Bingham, Cork, and [Gen Sir Frederick Stovin], Military Secretary, Royal Hospital, Dublin, for Lieut Gen Sir [John] Byng, Commander in Chief of the Irish Army, on the absence of an efficient police system in Cork and on the high incidence of military working on civil duties; in particular, reports by Bingham and William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, with a local report and the findings of a court of inquiry, to Byng, on an incident in Cork on 27 April 1829 which in their opinion proves the inadequacy of the civil power in Cork; letters between Stovin, James [John] Cummins, Sheriff of Cork, and Gregory, on the military; containing an annotation saying that the military guard needs to be withdrawn from [Cavan] and ‘in all other places immediately after the summer assizes’ (21 May 1829). Further, correspondence from Thomas Pope, Mayor of Cork, Mansion House, Cork, at first giving the magistracy’s opinion that the peaceful state of the city and the already heavy tax burden do not call for a new police force; later correspondence from the Committee of magistrates [charged by the Cork Grand Jury], slowly evolving their plan of funding a new police system partly from new taxes on publicans and pawnbrokers because of their perceived part in offences against the peace; with petitions by 42 pawnbrokers and by c.260 spirit merchants (latter sent by Michael Gould), Cork, as well as a private letter by William Kenealy, spirit dealer, 22 Market Street, Cork, to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], protesting against a scheme they find unjust; the Committee further detailing their decision against the Appointment of Constables, etc. (Ireland) Act 1822 and the final proposals in a letter of 9 January and a report from the above-mentioned committee based on the Act of 1771 (11-12 Geo 3rd c.18) foreseeing a new night watch with a paid superintendent and with the establishment of parish constables appointed at vestry (an unpaid force). In forwarding the report to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, William Crawford, Chairman of Committee, Cork, states its similarity to [Home Secretary Robert] Peel’s bill for London; Gower promising to put it to the Lord Lieutenant. Moreover, including letters by Maj William Miller [Inspector General], Fermoy, [County Cork], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on the wary attitude of the Cork magistrates to the government (mentioning Lord Kingston, Colonel Hill), and reminding Gower that Cork, like Limerick, Waterford and Youghal are exempt from the Constabulary Act; copy correspondence passed between the military and the government by Michael Creagh, High Sheriff, County Cork; copy excerpts from the Cork Grand Jury Book. [See also CSO/RP/1830/271, 354.] [Contains list of names not given in this description.]

24 Oct 1828-16 Feb 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/49

Letter from Richard Griffith, [civil engineer], General Boundary Survey Office, Dublin, to Sir Francis Leveson Gower, [Chief Secretary], Dublin Castle, enclosing a letter from Thomas Colby, Ordnance Survey Office, Dublin, asking how to render parts of baronies that are isolated in other baronies (such as a part of Monaghan which is situated in Dartrey), on the map, and also enclosing his draft reply saying that these should be marked as townlands until a decision has been made by parliament.

2 Jan 1830-5 Jan 1830

1830

CSO/RP/1830/50

Memorial by Mr George Edward Olpherts, [], to Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke Northumberland [Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin], referring to his late father Maj Wybrants Olpherts, and asking for a position as Chief Constable; including signatures by thirteen gentlemen, mostly magistrates, supporting his application.

[1830]

1830