TO HIS GRACE Charles, Duke of Richmond, LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND. MY LORD, The present unhappy situation of Revenue Officers in the Custom Department of Ireland, has, I presume, been made known to your Grace, in some degree, from the Memorials presented on this subject, and in the course of official communication which must have taken place on the long protracted business of compensations.-But, that the case of this aggrieved class of men has not been sufficiently explained nor impressed on your attention, no further proof is necessary than that the disabling, and, I may call it, impoverishing clause of the Abolition Act, took place instantly from the day appointed, the 1st of January 1809, and that the remedial provisions of that Act are still, near the close of the year, a dead letter on the statute book. The Act for abolishing fees B received |
