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PEEL ROBERT: (1788-1850) British Prime Minister 1834-35, 1841-46. Peel helped create the modern concept of the Police force while serving as Home Secretary. A.L.S., Robert Peel, one page, 4to, Whitehall, 29th December 1824, to Viscount Palmerston, marked 'Private and confidential'. Peel states that he is enclosing some correspondence (no longer present) with the Lord Lieutenant [Duke of Wellington] and [Henry] Goulburn concerning the state of Ireland 'which will probably interest you and which I think you ought to see', further adding that he is enclosing a key (no longer present) 'which will open the Boxes directed to you'. With blank integral leaf docketed in Palmerston's hand, 'Peel sending me copies of his correspondence with Ld. Wellesley & Goulburn about Roman Catholic association in Dublin'. A letter of good association. A very small area of former mounting appears to the verso of the integral leaf, otherwise VG Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) British Prime Minister 1855-58, 1859-65. At the time of the present letter Palmerston was serving as Secretary at War (1809-28). Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish Field Marshal, the Victor of Waterloo, 1815. British Prime Minister 1828-30, 1834. Wellington had served as Chief Secretary for Ireland 1807-09 and was Master-General of the Ordnance (1819-27) at the time of the present letter. Henry Goulburn (1784-1856) British Statesman who served as Chief Secretary for Ireland 1821-27. Although considered an Orangeman and frequently denounced, Goulburn enjoyed a relatively successful period in office. In 1828 he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Duke of Wellington and the two men disliked Roman Catholic emancipation, which Goulburn voted against in 1828.