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CSO/RP/1818/46

Petition of William Boyle, 179 Great Britain [Parnell] Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting government employment. Petitioner reflects that he has ‘done business three years in this city for two Houses in the Mercantile line, but from the great decline of Trade, it has became totally out of my power to obtain a situation’, yet declares himself ‘willing to act in the humblest occupation rather that drive myself forever to Distinction’. Encloses follow up letter from Boyle to Grant, acknowledging enquiry into his employment background, but due to lack of progress, expresses doubt that ‘this person did not report according to the favorable information he received’; in order to advance his claim, Boyle urges the Chief Secretary ‘for the sake of suffering Humanity’, to make further investigation of the matter; requests that answer be directed to Alexander Hamilton, 23 Rutland Square, Dublin, whom also he states will ‘be happy to satisfy your Honor as to my Conduct and habits of life’. Also includes note marked ‘Private’ instigating enquiry into character of Boyle and incomplete letter, from Head Police Office, stating that he was engaged as salesman with a wine merchant on Abbey street and in a similar post with a spirits seller on Jervis Street, ‘his income when Employed was about £50 per year’.

26 Oct 1818-20 Nov 1818

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CSO/RP/1818/63

Petition of Peter Callahan, Carrig, Mount Nugent, County Cavan, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a civil post. Having served for a period in the Royal West India Rangers, and made earlier presentation of army discharge Instructions in application for a post, he requests assistance from the Lord Lieutenant in finding employment ‘in the Police, Ordinance, or a Watchman or door keeper at the Custom House’.

10 Jan 1818

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CSO/RP/1818/80

Petition of Robert Childerhouse, Ballynoe, Limerick, County Limerick, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of high or chief constable. Having been informed that it is the government’s intention ‘to station a party of Police under the provisions of Mr Peel’s Act’ in Limerick, he advances by way of qualification for the post that he is member of a family ‘who have repeatedly distinguished themselves for their intrepidly and personal bravery in resisting the nightly attacks which have been made upon their Houses and Property by Armed Insurgents’; and furthermore, in 1815 ‘when the Liberties of Limerick was in a state of alarm from the robberies committed in the noon of day by Thomas Magrath the desperate highwayman, who then lurked in that neighborhood, your Memoralists, without arms and unassisted by any other person whatsoever, apprehended this noted felon, who at the time was armed with a loaded Blunderbuss and succeeded in bringing him to justice’.

25 Mar 1818

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CSO/RP/1818/168

Petition of Pat Carroll, police sub constable, County Tipperary, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to position of chief constable of police. Outlines past record in law enforcement especially his part in a incident under General Lee in 1810, in which an attacking party of three hundred rebels ‘who fired on him and party’ were resisted, and Carroll ‘succeeded in taking Eleven prisoners with Arms in their hands’; also of the apprehension and arrest of the person responsible for an attack on the house of Reverend Irvin Whitty, rector of Glankeane [Glenkeen]. His application is supported by Edward Wilson, chief magistrate for the baronies of Kilnamanagh and Eliogarty, County Tipperary.

20 Oct 1818

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CSO/RP/1818/171

Petition of John Curren, County Tipperary, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting redress of claim of unfair discharge from police service of County Tipperary. Alleges that he was ejected from the force ‘without the benefit of a fair trial by a false report made by James Miller (the Chief Constable of the police of Tipperary) to Captain Wilson’ and that payment owed to him has been withheld.

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CSO/RP/1818/176

Petition of John Curren, Tipperary, County Tipperary, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, claiming unfair discharge from police force and non payment of salary arrears owed to him. Alleges that he was removed from post in police because of an incorrect report of Chief Constable, James Miller, and that his ‘pay and lodging money has been kept from him’.

21 Nov 1818

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CSO/RP/1818/244

Petition of Francis Fox, Dolphins Barn, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, making application for employment and seeking remuneration for past services. Outlines past record of service to government including activity as holder of office of High Sheriff of Dublin and as commander of House Police of Dublin; states that he received approbation of grand juries of counties Dublin and Meath, ‘for his intrepidly and activity in apprehending a numerous banditti of Robbers, who was the Terror of both Counties as well by Day and by night, Headed by the notorious Michael Collier’. Encloses a second copy of same.

1 Nov 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/277

Letter from Simon Hatch, Supervisor of Watch Tax, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking appointment to post of keeper of new prison at Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia.

23 Jan 1818

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CSO/RP/1818/284

Petition of Singleton Wilson, James Pauton, Michael Conway, Andrew McCullagh, Philip McCullagh, William Corry, Joseph Vosser and John Gannon, ex-constables of the Howth Association of Police, County Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting employment in new force intended to be raised in locality of Naul and Garretstown. Application supported by signatures of members of the Howth Association and magistrates of the 5th Division of Police. Also includes letter of endorsement from Reverend Francis Fox, Church of Ireland rector of Raheny, County Dublin.

21 Mar 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/324

Petition of Simon Hatch, supervisor of Watch Tax, Head Office of Police, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking appointment to post of keeper of intended new prison at Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia. Endorsement of application added to bottom of memorial by Sir William Alexander, Superintendent Magistrate of Police.

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