Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

U611/

8pp

(v) Relating to Imprisonment (1848) (4 items)

30 8 August 1848 Letter, from George [Climpton], 27 South Mall, Cork, to ‘My dear Lane’, Cork Prison. He made several efforts to see Lane but was precluded by the ‘strictness if the present regulations’. His object was to assure Lane ‘…that an old friend feels for you as a friend should in sunshine or storm…’. He has reason to believe that he has some influence with the authorities and if Lane was brought to trial ‘there are a few of us opposed to you in political views, but attached to you by stronger bonds…who will readily exert ourselves to serve you…no religion or political difference has the power of effacing from my mind the recollection of old and happier days…’. (See also U611/15 and /50) 2pp 31 September 1848 Draft letter from Denny Lane, Cork City Prison, to J.N. Redington Esquire, Dublin Castle. Contains a statement regarding his arrest and detention since 2 August 1848 under warrant of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. He has waited patiently for a specific charge, and now demands to meet any such charges, or to be released from prison. He states that he is actively engaged in manufacturing and agricultural industry on an extensive scale and his imprisonment is limiting his ability to provide a very large number of persons employment in his neighbourhood and stopping his ‘personal superintendence’ of his business. Lane ‘cannot believe’ that the Government desires to hamper industry ‘particularly in such a year as the present’. He will enter into recognizances ‘to any amount that may be required’ to secure his release. 4pp 32 September 1848

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