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CSO/RP/1823/931

Letter from Laurence Parsons, 2nd earl Rosse, Parsonstown [Birr], King's County [County Offaly], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, 25 June 1823, enclosing petition of John O'Brien, Rahan Lodge, King's County, magistrate, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, referring to the damage caused to valuable tracts of land from the Clodio and Silver rivers, 'being choked up by the accumulation of Sand'. Requests, on his own behalf and that of other landowners in the area, government assistance for a public works scheme. Refers to their former petition on the subject, emphasising that the landowners are ready to expend their own money towards the work, as required by the public works legislation, June 1823.

Jun 1823-25 Jun 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/932

Letter from Reverend William Tew, 14 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin, Church of Ireland rector of Ballysax, County Kildare, to Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, renewing his former application for grant of land on Curragh of Kildare, to build a school house for the education of poor children in parish of Ballysax.

26 Jun 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/933

Letter from Dr Samuel Bell Labbatt, Rutland [Parnell] Square, Dublin, secretary to Cow Pock Institution, to Thomas Taylor, clerk, Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, 1 July 1823, enclosing, as requested, a copy of the Cow Pock Institution's first report [not present], and also a printed copy of the report for year 1822: this includes list of the institution's directors; an abstract from its register, stating the numbers of patients inoculated each year from 1804 to 1822, and also the numbers of packets of infection distributed to general practitioners and army surgeons; a report on the institution's work throughout 1822, noting an increase in occasional cases of a virulent strain of small pox in certain parts of Dublin and commenting on prevailing medical opinion respecting the security offered by cow pock, against contraction of small pox; and also a list of the names of each subscriber to the institution. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

1822-1 Jul 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/934

3 letters from Mountmorres de Montmorency, 133 Stephen's Green west, Dublin, to William Gregory, enquiring into the whereabouts of a petition he sent previously to the Irish government, noting that he has received no response; complains that, 'the custom of not answering letters creeping into fashion s[houl]d be reprobated….it destroys all etiquette…'.

30 Jun 1823-7 Jul 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/935

Letter from Garret Barry, Midleton, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, concerning his recommendation to government of the desirability of offering emigration to Canada; requests that he may be one of those engaged in conveying passengers for emigration, emphasising his own involvement in the passage trade to Canada. Offers to convey 140 people to Quebec for £1,000.

29 Jun 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/936

Letter from Hubert Thomas Dolphin, Loughrea, County Galway, barrister, to Edward I Johnston, private secretary to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to post of accountant general of the Court of Exchequer, having heard of the likely resignation of John O'Neill.

24 Jun 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/937

Letter from Richard Ryan, Edward Hall, James Cliburn, Thomas Dobbs and Miles Pluck, formerly of the Dublin horse police, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, 1 July 1823, enclosing their petition to Richard Wellesley, 1st marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, concerning their dismissal from their posts following the riot at the Theatre Royal, Dublin [in December 1822]. Defends their conduct on duty in the upper gallery of the theatre on the night in question, emphasising that 'they would risk their lives to protect you from any Insult or danger'. Requests reappointment to Dublin police.

1 Jul 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/938

Letter from Edward Twopeny, Rochester, England, solicitor, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning the case of William Donelly [sic], alias William Donollan, formerly of 98th regiment, a prisoner held in [County Kent] jail, for the murder of his wife Bridget. Twopeny, acting for the prosecution in the case against Donnelly, details the circumstances of the case, and requests that Donnelly's children, in attendance at Essex Street school in Dublin, are examined as witnesses in the case, and the copies of their testimonies forwarded to Twopeny, 2 June 1823. Also copy of letter from JB Roberts, Charleville, County Cork, to James Adamson, Dublin, [secretary to the Incorporated Society for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland], concerning the recollections of Catherine Danley or Donnellan [sic], concerning the circumstances of her mother's death, 23 June 1823, and enclosing a copy of her testimony sworn before Reverend William Dunn, magistrate and sovereign of Charleville, 21 June 1823.

2 Jun 1823-23 Jun 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/939

Letter from Howe Peter Browne, 2nd marquis of Sligo, Kildare, County Kildare, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting that George Brown, be transferred to a vacancy in the police constable establishment at Talbotstown, County Wicklow, under the command of Major James Tandy.

15 Jun 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1823/940

Letter from John Buchan, Mullingar barracks, County Westmeath, lieutenant colonel commanding 29th regiment, to [Reverend Alexander Gibson, Presbyterian minister of the united congregations of Mullingar and Tyrellspass], in support of Gibson's religious services and his preaching to the regiment, 16 June 1823. Also letter from John Lyons, Ladiston [Ladestown], County Westmeath, chief magistrate of Mullingar, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, on Gibson's behalf, and requesting that he be included in the first class of government's regium donum payments, 15 June 1823.

15 Jun 1823-16 Jun 1823

1823