Copy of Letter from R. M. BROMLEY, Esq., Secretary to the Commissioners of Audit, London, to Captain ROBINSON.
Audit Office, London, 2nd March, 1852.
MY DEAR SIR, You tell me that you are seeking some appointment at the hands of the present Government. I sincerely hope that you may be successful, believing as I do that you are endowed with considerable business habits, and that you are well qualified to fulfil an office, the duties of which require ability, method, and application.
During the period I was in Dublin, superintending the introduction of a new system of accounts at the Board of Works, I had opportunities of witnessing your habits of business, when you were employed under that Board, and I was then able to form the opinion I have now given.
To Captain Hercules Robinson,
&c.
&c.
Very faithfully yours,
(Signed,)
R. M. BROMLEY.
Copy of a letter from the Right Hon. Lord NAAS, late Chief Secretary for Ireland, to Capt. ROBINSON.
(COPY.)
Palmerstown, Naas, October 15th, 1853.
MY DEAR ROBINSON,-Many thanks for the copy of the Report of the Market Commission.
As I am the person who originated this matter, I must take this opportunity of bearing my testimony to the zeal, diligence, and judgment with which you conducted your laborious and important enquiry, as well as to the ability you have shown in drawing up the report. I have received from many persons who were present at your investigations, the most gratifying assurances of the satisfactory manner in which they were carried on; they all agree that your examinations were clear and concise, and that you seemed to spare no trouble in eliciting every particle of information that could usefully bear upon your subject.
That the Commission was completely successful, no one can, I think, doubt, and if useful results follow, I can assure you that I shall mainly attribute them to your skill and judgment.
To Captain H. Robinson.
Ever faithfully yours,
(Signed,) NAAS
Copy of Letter from Major LARCOM, Under Secretary for Ireland.
(COPY.)
Dublin Castle, 16th December, 1853.
GENTLEMEN, His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant having had under consideration, the report prepared by you, in obedience to the orders of the Government, on the subject of Fairs and Markets in Ireland, and the evidence upon which it is founded, I have great pleasure in conveying to you the high sense entertained by his Excellency of the efficient manner in which the important inquiry entrusted to you.
To Hercules Robinson, Esq., Commissioner.
John Macbeth, Esq., Assistant Commissioner.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
(Signed,)
THOMAS A. LARCOM,
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Copy of a Letter from the Earl of EGLINTON and WINTON, late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, addressed to Captain ROBINSON.
(COPY.) SIR,-
24th December, 1853.
I am happy to add my testimony to the admirable manner in which you conducted the inquiry into the state of the Fairs and Markets in Ireland, while I was entrusted with the Government of that Country.
To Captain H. Robinson.
I have the honor to be your obedient servant,
(Signed,)
EGLINTON and WINTON,
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