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CSO/RP/1825/1941

Letter from Sir Nicholas Colthurst, MP for Cork city, London, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing a memorial from the grand jury of the city of Cork, County Cork, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, appealing for an extension of the time allowed for repayment of a loan to government taken out for the purposes of building a new gaol, a bridewell and construction of roads. They point out the county is labouring under a burden of very heavy taxation, having to meet two annual instalments of £3,367 2s 7d out of a total balance due to government of £39,744 5s 9d.

21 Apr 1825-7 May 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1942

Petition of the merchants of Clonmel involved in the butter trade, County Tipperary, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, contending that a small number of amendments to the existing act for the regulation of the export butter trade in Ireland are preferred to the introduction of a new statute. Being aware of proposals to deregulate the trade, they declare their opposition to any change to the established practice of having butter tested in the open market by an impartial judge and fairly weighed and packed. Draws attention to the need to regulate the use of beamage [a disallowance on account of natural shrinkage] which varies from a reduction per casket of 5lbs to no reduction whatsoever in some parts. They also seek the attention of the legislature to the containers or firkins used to pack the butter. Since firkins often differ in size and capacity, they observe, each should be weighed in public and branded accordingly; it is to be preferred, they state, that firkins should be produced to uniform dimensions. Also printed petition from the merchants and other inhabitants of the town of Liverpool, England, to the commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, stating their opposition to any change in the statute for the regulation of the Irish butter exports. They remark ‘the doing away with the Public Inspection and Weighing of Butter, at the Shipping Ports in Ireland, would have a most injurious effect on the Trade’. Also printed proceedings of a meeting of the importers and dealers in Irish butter held at the Exchange in Manchester, England, expressing their opposition to a proposal by Sir Henry Parnell ‘to dispense with the regulations respecting the exportation of Butter from Ireland’.

21 Mar 1825-28 Mar 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1943

Letter from Robert Drought, attorney, 4 Grattan Street, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Irish Office, London, seeking the appointment of his daughter, Morris Drought, to the post of superintendent of the War Office at Dublin Castle. Confirms she is conspicuous for her ‘religious and moral principles’ and is well suited to the position in question. He acknowledges he is personally unknown to government but claims he enjoys the acquaintance of men such as Sir Harcourt Lees, John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury, and Richard Graves, dean of Ardagh, County Limerick. Laments through misfortune he ‘been deprived’ of his property and has 8 children ‘unprovided for’.

14 Feb 1825-18 Feb 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1944

Letter from Francis Despard, magistrate, Killaghy Castle, County Tipperary, [post town Callan, County Kilkenny], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, offering some observations in light of the passage of the civil bill act. Remarks in the event of Insurrection Act being continued he advocates the inclusion of a clause ‘to have the names of the inmates kept posted in legible characters on the inside of the Doors’. He encloses some additional suggestions for improvements to procedures in petty sessions courts, with a particulate focus on the subject of the administration of decrees for the recovery of debt.

9 Apr 1825-16 Apr 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1945

Letter from James P Devenish, former ensign, [now half pay pensioner], 87th regiment of foot, 8 Craigs Court, Charing Cross, London, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Irish Office, London, requesting appointment to a situation in the police establishment of Ireland. Stresses his personal hardship and states he made application to the Commander in Chief of the British army [Prince Frederick, Duke of York] for advance of full pay but without success. Cites the name of his uncle, William Devenish Meares, a magistrate of Meares Court in Ballynacargy, County Westmeath, as a person who will provide a suitable character reference for him.

28 Apr 1825-5 May 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1946

Letter from Thomas Stratford Dennis, magistrate, Fort Granite, [Fortgranite], Baltinglass, County Wicklow, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Irish Office, London, applauding the Chief Secretary’s plans to introduce legislation to suppress politically motivated organisations [the Unlawful Societies Act: 6th of George IV, chapter 4]. Remarks upon the intention of Daniel O’Connell [barrister and leader of the Roman Catholic Association] to counteract any measure to suppress the association, and offers some suggestions as to enforcing the new legislation. Urges that publication of speeches and declarations made by the leaders of the Catholic Association be ‘subject to a stamp duty’ and likewise the hawking or distribution of printed matter by such organisations be deemed an offence under the law. Observes as a gentleman with no affiliation to the Orange society, he was told in confidence by some members of the Catholic persuasion ‘that if the Association was not put down a Rebellion would most certainly be the consequence’.

11 Feb 1825-22 Feb 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1947

Letter from John Dwyer [formerly of Newtown, barony of Coonagh, County Limerick], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Irish Office, London, referring to a petition to the House of Commons for a measure of relief or a position of employment [not present]. Claims his case is one of ‘great distress and hardship’ and he is relying on the aid of government to meet the needs of his family. Remarks his case and claim has support from both Mr Moore [assistant barrister in County Tipperary] and Serjeant [Thomas] Goold, circuit judge. [See also description CSO/RP/1825/369].

17 Mar 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1948

3 letters from FS Dillon, Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Irish Office, London, on the subject of having an amendment added to the Irish prisons bill to allow external consultation with legal counsel. On behalf of himself and the other prisoners, he complains of the hardship of been restricted to visits only from those in the legal professional and requests parity of treatment with those similarly situated in the King’s Bench and Fleet Street [London] prisons.

6 May 1825-16 May 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1949

Letter from Harvey Devereux, [land and law agent], secretary of the grand jury of County Kilkenny, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Irish Office, London, passing on some observations in anticipation of the introduction of a bill in Parliament on the Irish grand jury presentments. Encloses copy of his ‘Remarks for the Improvement of Grand Jury Presentment Laws in Ireland’. Also encloses copy of his ‘Remarks on the Laws of Landlord and Tenant: the defects pointed out with additions absolutely necessary’. Also encloses copy of printed pamphlet entitled ‘Remarks on Making and Repairing Roads, and for Correcting the Abuses, which Exist Under the Present System of Road Making in Ireland’.

20 Aug 1824-11 Mar 1825

1825

CSO/RP/1825/1950

Letter from Harvey Devereux, [land and law agent], secretary of the grand jury of County Kilkenny, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary of Ireland, Irish Office, London, offering some remarks pertaining to the bill for Catholic emancipation [Sir Francis Burdett’s bill of March 1825 received the assent of the Commons but rejected by the Lords by 178 to 130]. Advises the emancipation bill ‘may safely pass’ since the admission of a relatively small number of Catholics to Parliament will not endanger the Protestant majority; at the present period, he believes, not more than 30 Catholic political representatives are likely to be elected to the House of Commons. Encloses ‘Additional observations’ in which he asserts the necessity of adding some precautions to the bill and in particular stresses a desire for curtailing the placement of priests in their native parishes. It is ‘ridiculous to deny’, he observes, that the Catholic clergy ‘could not control the muscle of Ireland, if they thought fit to do so’.

28 Apr 1825

1825