IRISH LEGITIMACY ISSUE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 202, 14 December 1871, Page 6

IRISH LEGITIMACY ISSUE.

A trial which is likely to attract considerable interest has been ordered by the Lauded Estates Court (Dublin) to determine a question of legitimacy raised in the matter of the estate of Mr. Napoleon Alfred Bonaparte Wyse, which is about to be sold. An objection to the draught of the final schedule has been lodged by Signor Urban Rattazzi, late Prime Minister of the .King of Italy, and his wife, on the ground that Madame Eattazzi ought to have been included as one of the younger children of the marriage of the late Sir Thomas Wyse with the Princess Letitia Bonaparte, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince de Canino. The claim is repudiated on the part of the owner and his brother, Mr. William Charles Wyse. In proof of this assertion, reference is made to the bill filed by the wife of Sir Thomas Wyse in the year 1845 in the Court of Chancery in England, in which she stated that there were only two children of the marriage, and her husband in his answer deposed to the same effect. The union, which was in the year 1821, was an. unhappy oue, and' in 1828 the lady left the residence of her husband in County Waterford, and tbey were separated by a formal deed, and never afterwards, as alleged, lived together. By the terms of the deed of separation it was stipulated that she was to receive £200 a year, and there were stringent conditions as to her not mat-, ing any further claim. The annuity was paid to her and she resided abroad, but after the lapse of some years she took proceedings to oblige her husband to charge his property to carry out the stipulations in the marriage contract. He refused on -the ground that be was released by the deed of separation. In the objection filed on the part of Madame Eattazzi it is alleged that there were three othe;r children— namely, Louis Lucien Napoleon Theodore, Marie, (the objectant herself) and Adelina, now married to General Turr. She claims to be entitled to one-fourth share of a sura of £10,000, provided for younger children by a deed executed by the late Sir Thomas Wyse in the year 1814. These children are alleged to be illegitimate, and an issue has been directed by the Landed Estates 'Cotfft to try the question, .