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CSO/RP/1822/1701

Petition of Richard Richards, Killaloe, County Clare, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting intervention of Government to facilitate legal redress against his wife and her brother whom he alleges defrauded him of £100: claims his wife was ‘filled with bad Conduct’ and assisted her brother in the deceit and is also inclined to exert influence over magistrate, William Read, with intention of ‘Receiving Stag bail’.

[1822]

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1702

Letter from Reverend Skelton Gresson, minister of Clara, King’s County [County Offaly], to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing memorial from Gresson to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, complaining that William B Armstrong, treasurer of King’s County, acts in defiance of established parliamentary regulations set in place to govern management of county funds: alleges unlawful imposition of fees by treasurer, restricted opening hours at Philipstown, failure to present payments to overseers and other improper practices; includes copy letter from Gresson to Armstrong, complaining of treatment of John Watson and of ‘a second useless application for money which you are paid six pence in the pound for disbursing’ and warning of ‘consequences most unpleasant to you’.

9 Mar 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1703

Petition of William Earles, Ennis, County Clare, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking a measure of financial assistance to facilitate travel to Dublin in order to receive hospital attention and possible amputation of a leg: recounts details of infirmity effecting legs that arose from outdoor duties as revenue officer on board an American ship laden with cotton, while employed in region of Strangford, County Down, and also mentions mishap at Loughrea, County Galway, at which place he was dragged by horses and sustained a broken thigh bone; includes short note on case indicating that he is in receipt of £10 per year as a disabled revenue officer, but is ‘in great distress from Sickness’.

4 Mar 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1704

Letter from John Hurly Jr, clerk of the crown, Tralee, County Kerry, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting reinstatement of privilege of sending official papers through post, free of cost: refers to recent case of indictments being returned to Post Office and being forced to pay postage charges; includes letter from Hurly to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, making reference to previous post arrangement and raising question of detained packet containing indictments connected with case of the murder of Major Collis, sent for attention of the Attorney General [William Conyngham Plunket].

28 Feb 1822-17 Mar 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1705

Letter from Rowley Lascelles, sub commissioner, Board of Records, 7 Cleveland Court, St James Place, London, England, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, acknowledging letter and outlining case for advance of salary and arrears which he claims are unpaid: refers to trunk of papers detained at bank of Messrs Sikes, Snaith & Company, Mansion House street, London, held in lieu of advances made for his use, and to ‘my just debts’.

18 Mar 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1706

Letter from Mrs O’Connor, William Street, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, referring to grant of interview to husband and indicating desire to communicate to him ‘some good news’ by letter in preparation for London, England, ‘by this night’s mail’.

20 Mar 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1707

Letter from Désiré Pontet, 16 Grafton Street, Dublin, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, offering proposals on reform of the administration of the post office of Great Britain, presented for attention of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle: suggests particular concessions in respect of carriage of books published in any towns in the ‘three Kingdoms’ and mentions penalty for inclusion of ‘any Paper written upon or not’ in package [letter in French]. Also English translation vesion of the letter, prepared by Dublin Castle, official.

22 Mar 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1708

Petition of Thomas Dougherty, Ballina, County Mayo, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of a pension as compensation for period of service to Government: claims to have served twenty one years in the North Mayo Militia and to have subsequently ‘Laboured under a Complication of disorders’; with copy certificates in support of application overleaf from William R Smith, Church of Ireland minister, Castlebar, Colonel William Jackson, and 3 others.

28 Jan 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1709

Letter from Walter Thom, Dublin Journal Office, 15 Parliament Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, making reference to offer to print for the public offices at competitive cost and seeking access ‘to the documents lodged in the office for auditing the public civil accounts, by the heads of the Departments’ in order to calculate saving to Government: adds ‘it never was my intention, to interfere with the Patent right of the King’s Printer’.

28 Jan 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/1710

Letter from Michael Mullarkey, Holly Park, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting postponement of civil bill business at the fortcoming quarter sessions, in order to relieve the lower orders of further financial burden: claims that if such an extension was permitted ‘by that time (with God’s assistance) they may be able to bring something to market, that will enable them to satisfy their Creditor’.

20 Jun 1822

1822