Calendar list of papers in HO 98/67 - 1806-1812

Page Author Recipient Date Topic Notes
1 Smelt Spencer 18060412 ack of official notice of embargo on Prussia
2 Smelt Spencer 18060424 needed increase in police
3 Smelt Spencer 18060424 ack of official notice
4 Smelt Spencer 18060502 military
5 Smelt Spencer 18060521 ack of official notice
6 Smelt Spencer 18060605 ramsey harbour
7 Ramsey merchants Spencer ramsey harbour [enc]
8 Atholl Spencer 18060609 [from London]
9 Smelt Spencer 18060612 ack of official notice
10 Atholl Spencer 18060614 [from London]
11 Smelt Spencer 18060620
12 John Christian Spencer 18060620
13 John Christian Spencer memorial
14 ramsey merchants 18060524
15 18060505 printed statements of witnesses re Ramsey Port petition
16 Smelt Spencer 18060627
17 Smelt Spencer 18060711
18 Smelt Wynn 18060712 ack of official notice
19 Smelt Spencer 18060821
20 J F Crellin Spencer 18060818
21 J F Crellin King 18060818
22 Smelt Spencer 18060908 Daniels fraudster
23 Smelt Spencer 18060913 forgers
24 Smelt Spencer 18060914
25 Smelt Spencer 18061003 ack of official notice
26 Smelt Spencer 18061113 forgery punishment
27 Norris Moore Smelt 18061101 [copy] [enc]
28 Smelt Lace 18061108
29 Lace Smelt 18061108 [copy] [enc]
30 Atholl Spencer 18061120 [from Dunkeld]complaining not informed of Acts being passed for Royal Assent
31 Smelt Spencer 18061127 forgery
32 Tynwald 18060718 Act [enc]
33 Smelt Spencer 18061216 re Thomas Cowley
34 Thomas Cowley Spencer 18061127 petition [enc]
35 J F Crellin Smelt 18061213 [copy] [enc]
36 John Hughes + others Smelt 18061215 depositions re Thomas Cowley
37 John Christian Spencer 18061218 deemsters salaries
38 J F Crellin John Christian 18061206 [enc]
39 J F Crellin John Christian 18061031 [enc]
40 J F Crellin Spencer 18061206 [enc]
41 John Christian Spencer 18061222
42 Smelt Spencer 18061225
43 proposed act
44 Smelt Wynn 18070124 ack of official notice  
45 John Christian Spencer 18070129 re bills + comments on Duke"I frankly state to your Lordship, that the Friends of Government in the Island, contradistinguished from the Duke of Atholl's party, are not little fearful, that his Grace's influence in the Council )of which he names nearly one half) may otherwise thwart us..."  
46 18070129 proposed acts exportation of salt etc [enc]
47 18070129 proposed acts re arrest [enc]
48 Henry Speed Spencer 18070407 complaint
49 Henry Speed 18070406 affadavit re assault by Ensign John Edward Lee [enc]
50 Smelt Beckett 18070521 ack of official notice
51 Smelt Hawkesbury 18070528 enc letter from Col Taubman re Speed
52 J Taubman Smelt 18070510 re court of inquiry 18070325 [enc]
53 Smelt Hawkesbury 18070710 query re arrest warrants from off Island inc that for Sir John Bettet Piers
54 ?Read Beckett re Sir John Piers by Bow St magistrates [enc]
55 J B Piers 18070715 concerning attempts to arrest him [enc]
56 J R 18070716 status of warrants in IoM
57 Smelt Hawkesbury 18070716 re letter from Crellin re northern Volunteers
58 J F Crellin Smelt 18070710 re northern Volunteers [enc]
59 Smelt Hawkesbury 18070809 re treasury letter
60 G Harrison Smelt 18070724 re claims by Taubman re Taubman(senr) loan to harbour commissioners [enc]
61 Smelt G Harrison 18070803 [copy]explanation by Smelt of initial refusal of part of claim [enc]
62 Smelt G Harrison 18070803 [copy]ans to letter of 18070724 [enc]
63 treasury minutes 17940701 [copy]treasury minutes relating to claim [enc]
64 Smelt Beckett 18070812 Q re costs of sentry boxes  
65 Smelt Hawkesbury 18070821 re memorial herring curers etc re fear of impressment
66 Smelt Beckett 18070910 ack
67 Smelt Hawkesbury 18070825 enc address by Keys; re failure to get forgery bill passed by council [? not enclosed]  
68 Smelt Hawkesbury 18071025 re chapel mentions enc letter from bishop [? not enclosed]  
69 Smelt Beckett 18080713 ack of official notice  
70 Smelt Hawkesbury 18080807 re estimate for repairing that part of chapel at castletown allocated to Govr
71 Smelt Beckett 18081214
72 Smelt Jenkinson 18090429 ack
73 Smelt Beckett 18090511 ack
74 Smelt Beckett 18090518 ack
75 Smelt Beckett 18090907 ack
76 Westmorland Liverpool 18090910 memorial from Gen Stapleton [enc missing ?]  
77 Smelt Jenkinson 18090929 re letter sent by Westmorland re complaint by Stapleton agt deemster Lace
78 Atholl Liverpool 18091006 [from Perth] re memorial by Stapleton
79 Smelt Jenkinson 18091007 re Stapleton - delayed inquiry til 1 Nov
80 Smelt Beckett 18091101 reported that Law officers asserted that not allowed to commence an action agt a Deemster nor impeach him before the keys
81 law officers Smelt ?missed a page  
82 Westmorland Liverpool 18091016
83 Stapleton Beckett 18091103
84 Stapleton 18091021 printed case
85 Stapleton Westmorland 18091002 intro to the copies
86 Stapleton copies of the various communications marked 1..10
87 Smelt Beckett 18100208 re imprisonment of King + Inch
88 Inch Liverpool 18091101 petition + discharge from Carlisle
89 Inch Liverpool 181002 further petition
90 Smelt Ryder 18100510 request for 6weeks leave to go to Bath
91 Atholl Ryder? 18100614 [from Cheltenham] re Recvr Genl Scott as memberof Council
92 Smelt Ryder 18100620 ack of letter authorising leave
93 Smelt Ryder 18100813 use of honorifics
94 Atholl Ryder 18100817 [from Blair] re Acts - complaint that not seen by him
95 Smelt Beckett 18100913 re forgeries of Bank of England dividends
96 John Cosnahan Ryder 18101009 appt as Water Bailiff + would like copy of commission
97 Smelt Goulburn 18101024 ack
98 Smelt Ryder 18101108 ack of death Princess Amelia
99 Smelt Ryder 18110125 ack
100 Smelt Ryder 18110508 ack
101 Gov Bank of England Beckett 18110520 enc letters from IoM re forgeries
102 R B Morgan Gov Bank of England 18110514 re info in Manx Advertiser of 11 May [enc]
103 Ambrose St John J H Holford 18110514 [enc]
104 Edwd Moore Henry Gaitskell? 18110516 re info in Manx Advertiser (being author)+ copy from paper of article  
105 ? solicitor to Bank of England 18110517 re forgeries
106 Robt Stuart Beckett 18110527 re RMF
107 Smelt Ryder 18110528 re 2nd Bat 6th regt arrived 23 May but no accomodation
108 Stuart Beckett 18110529 re meeting
109 Smelt Beckett 18110613 re Bank of England forgeries
110 Atholl Ryder 18110626 [Private][from London] recommending Robt Stuart as Atty Genl if Franklin resigns
111 Atholl Ryder 18110625 [from London] re non-residence of Atty Genl
112 Atholl Ryder 18110626 Memorial re state of gaol
113 Smelt Beckett 18110630 re Council deciding to proclaim existing law + consider revision at later date
114 Proclamation Proclamation that 1797 act agt Forgery still applies [enc]
115 Smelt Ryder 18110710 re petitions re riot in Douglas 9th July by Maj Gardener CO 2nd Bat 6th regt and by HB Norris Moore [both enclosed]?= AP_X29(3rd)_4 Smelt comments that it might be appropriate to impress the ringleaders if found guilty + later used by Duke's party to stir some discontent against him  
116 Norris Moore Smelt 18110606 re riot in Douglas between locals + detachment 6th regt [enc]
117 Maj John Gardiner Smelt 18110627 petition [enc]
118 Smelt Ryder 18110712 enc a memorial from Keys re prison?= AP_113_15;  
119 Keys Smelt memorial re prison  
120 Smelt Ryder 18110816 re impressment during herring season
121 herring curers Smelt 18110815 memorial herring curers [enc]
122 Taubman Smelt 18110813 sergt + 6men South Manx Volunteers impressed by Lt Hawke
123 "an English Gentleman" Ryder 18110818 re impressment
124 Smelt Ryder 18110826 enc memorial re behaviour of regt + request for court of inquiry
125 Douglas inhabitants Smelt 18110815 memorial re behaviour of detachment of 6th regt in aiding impressment signed by aproximately 60 [enc]
126 18110815 30 depositions of witnesses [enc]
127 Maj John Gardiner Smelt 18110824 report
128 18110817 proceedings of Court of inquiry
129 Capt James Thomson Maj John Gardiner 18110814 [enc]
130 Lt Col J Shaw Ryder 18110830 death of Alexander Shaw (his father)
131 Smelt Ryder 18110926 departure 21st Sept of 2nd Bat 6th Regt to Dublin + arrival of 3 companies of 11th Royal Veterans
132 Frankland Ryder 18111102 [from Brighton][Private] reply to a letter ?reflecting Atholl's criticism [see 18110625]indirectly criticises Atholl in delaying bills  
133 Markham ? Ryder 18111103 [from Barrack Office]
134 Capt Stapleton Commissioners 18110918 extract of report re [enc]
135 Smelt Ryder 18111218 needs a carriage + funds to support it
136 Atholl Ryder 18120115 [from Dunkeld] re gaol
137 Atholl 18120115 remarks on petition by debtors
138 Smelt Beckett 18120202 re salary etc of Lt Govrs - inc cost of passes
139 Smelt Ryder 18120322 death of Deemster Lace recommends J F Crellin to be 1st deemster + Norris Moore to be 2nd
140 Atholl Ryder 18120330 [from Dunkeld] same recmdns re deemster as Smelt
141 Frazer Ryder 18120330 re Atholls recomndtn of Nicholas Moore for deemster
142 Smelt Beckett 18120502 ack
143 Henry Speed Ryder 18120518 re laws [?son]
144 Henry Speed 18120518 petition held for 5.5yrs for debt
145 Smelt Beckett 18120526 asks re decision on deemsters
146 Smelt Beckett 18120617 received decision re deemsters
147 Atholl Sidmouth 18120707 [from IoM][Private] re Frankland
148 Atholl Sidmouth 18120707 [from IoM]arrived 26 June - recommends Roland Hunt to replace Frankland; reports mischievous effects from absence of Frankland  
149 Smelt Beckett 18120806 ack
150 Wilks Lord Powis 18120821 re appointments to be indep of Duke
151 Sidmouth Curwen 18120828 [copy] in reply to Curwen's letters re appointments
152 Ambrose St John Sidmouth? 18120904 offering himself as Atty Genl
153 Atholl Sidmouth 18120930 [from Perth] re penisular war
154 Smelt Addington 18121029 ack
155 Atholl Sidmouth 18121125 [from IoM][Private] re Frankland
156 Atholl Sidmouth 18121125 [from IoM] re Frankland
157 Atholl Sidmouth 18121205 [from IoM] agrees with law on Debtors
158 Atholl Sidmouth 18121206 [from IoM] criticism that Smelt won't give him the Castle Rushen apartments
159 Atholl Smelt 18121204 [copy]requesting he vacate the Lt Govr's house [enc]
160 Smelt Atholl 18121204 [copies]replies etc [enc]
161 Smelt Sidmouth 18121206 behaviour of Duke
162 Smelt Sidmouth 18121209 re Duke's claims
163 Dawson Sydney 17860930 [copy]re health + accomodation [enc]
164 Atholl Smelt 18121204 [copy]requesting he vacate the Lt Govr's house [enc]
165 Atholl Sidmouth 18121212 [from IoM] re Frankland
166 Sidmouth Atholl 18121212 re Frankland
167 Frankland Sidmouth 18121212 re affairs on Island
168 Sidmouth Atholl 18121218 not to persist in trying to get the Lt Govrs accomodation
169 Atholl Sidmouth 18121218 re bill on relief for debtors
170 Atholl Sidmouth 18121224 reply to 18121218
171 Atholl Smelt 18121208 [copy]re quitting accomodation [enc]
172 Atholl Sidmouth 18121224
173 Ellenborough Sidmouth 18121229 re enc letter from John Christian wishes to be considered for Atty Gel
174 Sidmouth Ellenborough 18121230 [private] not possible for John Christian to be Atty Gel

Notes

This is the fifth file in the HO 98 series dealing with the IoM - a thick bound volume, which can cause some text to be lost in the binding. The pages are unnumbered - the page number here is the position of the document in the bound volume. Some documents are enclosed with others - usually noted as [enc].

It is intended more as a finding aid than as full abstracts of each paper.

The dates are ISO standard format year month day;
the key persons are:

Cornelius Smelt - appointed Lt Governor in 1805 - remained in post through to death in 1832
Duke of Atholl - 4th Duke, appointed Govr-in-Chief in 1793 - held post until death in 1830
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