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1831 (11 January). A Calendar of 38 named Prisoners confined in the Jail of Carlow.
Listing, by James Bessoneth, includes name of prisoner, crime, name of magistrate who committed prisoner to
jail, date of trial and name of Judge with sentence recorded such as transportation, hard labour on treadmill etc.
Several of the prisoners are recorded as insane. Crimes recorded include desertion from the army, murder, riot,
arson, larceny, receiving stolen goods, being a strolling vagrant and “murder if an illegal oath would not be taken”.
Folio.
22 x 18in. (55.88 x 45.72cm)
Estimate €150-€200 £130-£170
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 1617
1832 (June 10) Letter from Daniel O’Connell to Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue KG, PC, Whig politician.
A two page letter. O’Connell seeks to explain remarks he has made to Mr Bulwer ‘expressing the opinion I
entertain of Mr Disraeli’.
In April 1835 Disraeli fought a by-election at Taunton as a Tory. Daniel O’Connell, misled by inaccurate press
reports, thought Disraeli had slandered him while electioneering at Taunton; he launched an outspoken attack,
referring to Disraeli as:
‘a reptile ... just fit now, after being twice discarded by the people, to become a Conservative. He possesses all
the necessary requisites of perfidy, selfishness, depravity, want of principle, etc., which would qualify him for the
change. His name shows that he is of Jewish origin. I do not use it as a term of reproach; there are many most
respectable Jews. But there are, as in every other people, some of the lowest and most disgusting grade of moral
turpitude; and of those I look upon Mr. Disraeli as the worst.’
Estimate €700-€1000 £600-£850
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 17