Papers and correspondence of Sir Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, 1793-1799

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Correspondents include: H. Dundas, Colonel Doyle, Prince of Wales, Duke of Buccleuch, James Stirling, Gilbert Innes, R. Burke, General Abercromby, E. Vidal, Marquis of Buckingham, Duke of York, M. Donegall, Lord Camden, Sir John Sinclair, Lieutenant G. Mitchell.

Subjects include: religious tension in Ireland, political state of Ireland, failure of capital houses in London and impact on principal traders, appropriating the hereditary revenues in Ireland, re-affirming British government power in Ireland, General Abercromby's resignation, Charter Schools in Ireland, affairs of Ireland including public opinion and finances, sending officers to Buckingham to the volunteers and supplementary militia, pamphlets regarding the discontents in Ireland, proposal to employ Danes and Swedes to assist in quelling the Irish Rebellion, statisitcal account of Scotland, plan for a union with Ireland.

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'The Case of His Majesty's Principal Secretary for the Kingdom of Ireland'

'An Act to prevent the election or appointment of unlawful assemblies under pretence of preparing or presenting public petitions', Dublin, 1793.

A document on the members of the House of Commons of Ireland, 1793.

Memorandum of the conversation which happened with H. Dundas at Wimbledon on the 21st and 22nd of January 1793 in the presence of Mr Pitt, Prime Minister. The conversation included discussion of the difficulties faced by the Irish government due to Roman Catholic claims, how the opposition was utilising this to embarass the government, a reform of parliament, W.G. Ponsonby's suggestion that Government of Ireland should be exclusively Irish with its own administration.

Disposition of Barracks in North Britain, 24 February 1794.

Board for Formation of French Corps and proposal to re-establish the Irish Brigade, 1794.

State of the Irish New Levies, 15 September 1794.

List of Regiments to be embarked from Ireland, 19 September 1794.

Estimate of the loss of the enemy in the expedition to the coast of Ireland, December 1796.

Memorandum of A. O'Connor, T. Emmett and W.McNevin of the Executive Committee of the United Irishmen, 1798.

Outline of the Defence of Ireland, 28 April 1798.

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