The
Enniskillen Chronicle & Erne Packet
February 12, 1824
Enniskillen, County Fermanagh
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The election of a Member for Cavan,
is fixed for the 23d instant, when Mr. Henry Maxwell, nephew to the
present Lord Farnham, the late Member for that county, will be elected
without opposition. ==================== We understand that Colonel Rochfort, the eldest son of the late Member for the County Westmeath, has been solicited to offer himself as a candidate to represent his native County in Parliament. The great family claims which this Gentleman possesses, the length of service of his father, his tried zeal in the public cause, and above all, his constitutional principles, which are hereditary, must ensure him sucess [sic]. ==================== The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to appoint Nicholas Charles Whyte, Esq., of Scarva House, Loughbricland, a Magistrate for the counties of Down and Armagh. ==================== A Gentleman, high in the Excise Department in Dublin, is now under trial, on charges preferred by one lately dismissed from a subordinate situation.--Times. ==================== Irish Court. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, held the second Levee for the season at the Castle, on Monday. Among the distinguished company who attended, were--The Marquis of Caermarthen, 1-th Hussars; the Earl of Belmore, the Earl of Meath, the Earl of Enniskillen, the Earl of Mayo, the Earl of Charlemont, Lord Clarina, Lord Viscount Gort, Lord Dunsany, Lord Brandon, Lord Killeen, the Baron de Roebeck, the Bishop of Clogher, the Hon. Col. Creighton; the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (Dr. Murray,) the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam (Dr. Kelly), &c. &c. &c. |
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