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CSO/RP/1820/732

Petition of Richard Ireland, half pay lieutenant, 104th Regiment of Foot, 18 Lower Gloucester Street, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post in the police establishment; refers to period of military service of 13 years duration and loss of five brothers while engaged in ranks of the army.

11 Apr 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/733

Petition of Thomas Johnson, Cork, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post in the police establishment; claims to be a son of Francis Johnson, Justice of the Peace, renowned for his ‘Spirited Conduct during the Rebellion of [17]98’; includes memorial from his mother Mary Johnson, in support of application and to elicit ‘some little help’ in order to alleviate her distress; also note indicating support of Sir Nicholas Colthurst.

Apr 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/734

File of material containing petitions and letters of appeal for introduction of bill for relief of insolvent debtors incarcerated in the Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin, and in other prisons throughout Ireland. Includes letter from Michael Murtagh, Sheriff’s Prison, Dublin, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, requesting copy of the Irish Insolvency Act and to state ‘if we are not relieved things cannot remain as they are’, 4 August 1820; also includes letter from John O’Brien, Crow Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, indicating disappointment at Lord Althorpe’s insolvency bill and pleading that ‘the Prisons of Dublin are full of honest industrious Persons of all Descriptions confined for Debts some of whom cannot exist in Prison or out of it on acc[oun]t of their scanty means’, 12 July 1820; also includes letter from ‘a Friend to Humanity’ to Grant urging that if the English Insolvency Act were extended to Ireland it would ‘produce the most beneficial Effects’ and to warn concerning the prisoner who is admitted as an insolvent debtor: ‘For altho he may go into prison an Honest man, if he Spends any time there it is impossible for him to come out any other than a rogue’, 10 July 1820; also includes memorial of prisoners confined for debt in the Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin to Grant, appealing for introduction of bill in Parliament for relief of insolvent debtors, signed by 102 individuals, June 1820.

11 May 1820-4 Aug 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/735

Letter from Francis Johnston, architect, Board of Works, Architect's Office, Castle Yard, Dublin Castle, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing account [not extant] of work completed on premises at the Phoenix Park and Castle, and referring to account and abstract for work on the Chief Secretary’s residence, with request for signatures in order that they can be conveyed to the commissioners of the Board of Works for settlement. Includes letter from Johnston to Gregory, enclosing letter from Robert Robinson, assistant secretary, Board of Works, requesting that tradesmen’s bills for quarter ending 5 January, are furnished ‘without further delay’.

6 Apr 1820-10 Apr 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/736

Letter from Francis Johnston, architect, Board of Works, Architect's Office, Castle Yard, Dublin Castle, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, requesting letter of authority from William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, to the commissioners of the Board of Works, in order to proceed with work on repository for wills; encloses detailed estimate for alterations to middle floor of Prerogative and Consistorial Courts, of King’s Inns, Dublin.

5 May 1820-20 Jun 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/737

Letter from Francis Johnston, architect, Board of Works, Architect's Office, Castle Yard, Dublin Castle, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, with observations on proposals by Charles H Todd, surgeon, for alterations to the Richmond General Penitentiary; encloses letter from Todd, Kildare street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, explaining plan for modification to apartments and desiring ‘authority to proceed’; also includes letter from Johnston to Grant offering thoughts on scheme for accommodation of sick in Richmond General Penitentiary.

23 Aug 1820-8 Nov 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/738

Letter from Francis Johnston, architect, Board of Works, Architect's Office, Castle Yard, Dublin Castle, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, with observations on procedure for operation of water pumps at depot of Cork and to indicate that Mr Carolin will visit the engineer there to ascertain if a new scheme of compulsion can be implemented.

20 Sep 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/778

Letter from Timothy King, 45 Essex Street, Dublin, to Lady Frances Talbot, requesting her intervention with Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, to provide a situation of employment under government; refers to period of military service that saw termination in 1814 and necessity of supporting a large family ‘Struggling against privations nearly beyond the power of nature to bear’. Includes letter from King to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking situation in the Stamp Office, rendered vacant due to death of ‘Flanagan’.

25 Mar 1820-22 Apr 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/779

Letter from L Kelly, 4 Grattan Street, Dublin, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, offering evidence to support allegations of improper practices in the office of the Irish Record Commission, and especially of activities of secretary, William Shaw Mason, whose plan, if carried into effect ‘will tempt every man of honest and liberal education to leave the Commission and throw it open to needy persons of no abilities’; refers to three enclosures that are no longer extant.

27 Mar 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/780

Letter from Mr Kavanagh, overseer of roads, Borris, County Carlow, [post town Goresbridge, County Kilkenny], to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting action on question of removal of materials from commons of White mountain, upon which ‘no less than five hundred horses have been daily occupied during the last week’ and to plead without immediate intervention ‘the premises in question must at no great distance of time be rendered of little or no value whatsoever to any party’.

7 Nov 1820

1820