the title and estates should his brother die without lawful issue, intimated his intention to dispute the validity of the marriage of his brother with Miss May; he contended, that the lady, called and calling herself the marchioness of Donegal, was still Miss May, or at least not lawfully married to his brother; and, consequently, that the earl of Belfast and the other children were illegitimate, and that, as far as they were concerned, he was himself the actual heir presumptive. In this manner, at an advanced age, the marquis and marchioness found their marriage questioned, and their children described as illegitimate. The ground of the conduct on the part of Mr. Arthur Chichester, was the marriage of the marquis and marchioness by license, without the consent of any person authorized by lord Hardwicke's act. One of the consequences of Mr. Arthur Chichester's intimation was, the postponement of the marriage of the earl of Belfast; and, in the meantime, the marquis and marchioness commenced such proceed ings in the Spiritual Court, as afforded the best chance of establishing the validity of their marriage. They discontinued to live together; while the marquis commenced a suit against the marchioness, for what, in the language of the spiritual courts, is called "Jactitation," or assumption of marriage; thereby requiring the marchioness to show upon what pretence she called herself his wife, and why she should not be forbidden so to do. The object was, to afford to the marchioness an opportunity to establish, if possible, the validity of the marriage by legal evidence, which evidence would then become matter of record for posterity, and demonstrate the legitimacy of the children. This could not be accomplished; and the act was introduced, in order that its retrospective clauses might effect what could not be done by other means. The marriage of the earl of Belfast, with lady Harriet Butler, daughter of the earl of Glengal, soon followed. REVISION OF THE IRISH MAGISTRACY.-Government have set themselves in earnest about a revision in the magistracy. Writs of supersedeas have been issued to a great number of gentlemen of the very first rank and consequence, who have been deprived of their commissions as magistrates. This measure is supposed to be introductory to the new Constabulary Bill. CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO TAKE AWAY THE LIFE OF THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.-During the whole of the last week the privy council was engaged in investigating all the particulars connected with the attack on the marquis Wellesley. The investigation was carried on under the direction of the attorney and solicitor-general. Applications had been made, whilst these examinations were pending, to admit the persons in custody to bail; this however was refused; and others were subsequently taken into custody. The following persons were fully committed: : Henry Handwick, George Graham and James Forbes, for having, with divers other persons, feloniously conspired, confederated, and agreed, to kill and murder his excellency Richard, marquis Wellesley, lord-lieutenant of Ireland; Matthew Handwick, William Graham, and William Brownlow, for conspiring to cause a riot, and for actually, with others, having caused one on the night in question. APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. SHERIFFS FOR THE YEAR 1822. Bedfordshire.. ....... Bucks Peter Augustus Lautour, of Staughton, esq. Camb, and Hunt..... Robert Jones Adeane, of Babraham, esq. Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devonshire Dorsetshire Essex Gloucestershire.. Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leicestershire Lincolnshire.. Norfolk Charles Wickstead, of Baddeley, esq. ..William Crakanthorpe, of Bank Hall, esq. ..Sir Thomas T. F. Elliot Drake, of Nutwell-court, bart. Sir George Henry Smyth, of Berechurch Hall, bart. ...... John Powel Powell, of Quex, esq. Charles James Packe, of Prestwold, esq. Monmouthshire ....James Jenkins, of Chepstow, esq. Nottinghamshire ....William Farnworth Handley, of Newark upon Trent, esq. Rutlandshire ......Thomas Floar, of Whissendine, esq. .Ambrose Harbord Steward, of Stoke Park, esq. ..Matthew Wise, of Leamington Priors, esq. Worcestershire.. ....Samuel Ryland, of Kingsnorton, esq. John Christie, of Cwmllwyfog, esq. Thomas Lewis Lloyd, of Wern Newidd, esq. ..... William Wynne Sparrow, of Tynewydd, esq. .....Thomas Harrison, of Saathlwydd, esq. Merionethshire. ....James Gill, of Pant Glas, esq. Montgomeryshire....Joseph Hayes Lyon of Cefublwarch, esq. ter. In Manchester-square, the lady of the hon. Thomas Orde Poulett, a son. 25. At Brighton, the lady of lieut. col. Taylor, 10th royal hussars, a son. At Boxley, Kent, the lady of the hon. William Frazer, a daughter. 26. In Gate-street, Lincoln's innfields, the lady of John Mitchell, M.D. a daughter. 29. At Hythe, the lady of lieut.col. Goldfinch, royal engineers, a son. In Jermyn-street, the lady of sir Frederick Baker, bart. a son. At Edinburgh, lady Berriedale, a son and heir. At Edinburgh, the right hon. lady Ellinor Campbell, a son and heir. At Newcastle, county of Limerick, the lady of lieut.-col. Balfour, a son. At Dublin, the lady of sir Nicholas Conway Colthurst, bart. M. P. for the city of Cork, a daughter. At the Hague, the countess of Athlone, a daughter. At Versailles, the hon. Mrs. Elliot, ther-in-law, the prince of Prossedi, Donna Letitia Buonaparte Wyse, the lady of Thos. Wyse, jun. esq. of the manor of St. John, Ireland, à son and heir. Two days afterwards (Jan. 8), the infant was baptized by his eminence, Cardinal Fesch, by the name of Napoleon; the sponsors, John Talbot, esq. nephew of the earl of Shrewsbury, and Donna Carlotta Buonaparte Gabrielli, princess of Prossedi. FEBRUARY. 1. In Montague-place, at the residence of Mr. Serjeant Pell, the hon. Mrs. Pell, a daughter. 2. At Brighton, the right lion. lady Caroline Hamilton, a daughter. 5. At Preshaw-house, Hants, the right hon. lady Mary Long, the lady of Walter Long, esq. a daughter. 8. In Manchester-square, the lady of J. Green Wilkinson, esq. of Bargatehouse, Hants, a son. 9. In Stratton street, Piccadilly, lady Jane Peel, a son. 10. At Puttenham, Surrey, the lady of Richard Sumner, esq. a daughter. 15. Upper Bedford-place, Russellsquare, the lady of Henry Hoyle Oddie, jun. esq. a daughter. 16. At Lindley hall, the lady of T. Applewhaite, esq. a son and heir. 19. At Frien-house, the lady of J. W. Bacon, esq. a daughter. 20. In Portland-place, the lady of Sandford Graham, esq. M. P. for Ludgershall, a son. 21. At Langley-farm, Kent, the hon. Mrs. Colville, a daughter. 27. The lady of Dr. Goodenough, head-master of Westminster-school, a daughter. At Ferregles, Dumfries, the lady of Alexander Gordon, esq. twins, (sons). At Dublin, the lady of the hon. Francis Annesley, a daughter. At Killea-house, the lady of the hon. Richard St. Leger, a son. At Rathkeale, county of Limerick, the lady of lieut.-col. Dick, of the 42nd highlanders, a son and heir. At Clontart, the lady of the hon. John Prendergast Vereker, a son. MARCH. 4. The lady of Thos. Starkie, esq. barrister-at-law, twins, (girls). BIRTHS. 5. The lady of James Moody, esq. of Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, a son. At the Dowager lady Rodney's, Alfred-place, the lady of the hon. Edward Rodney, R. N. a daughter. 7. At Holme, in the East Riding of the county of York, the lady of the hon. Chas. Longdale, a son. 10. The lady of captain Henry Andrews Drummond, of Holles-street, Cavendish-square, a daughter. At Knowlton-park, Kent, the lady of captain D'Aeth, R. N. a son. 11. In Bloomsbury-square, Mrs. Edward Lawford, a daughter. In Upper Brook-street, the lady of sir Charles Sullivan, a daughter. In Queen Ann-street, the lady of major Chetwynd Stapylton, royal hussars, a son. 13. In Portman-square, Mrs. Fuller Maitland, a daughter. 14. At Woolwich, the lady of major Payne, royal artillery, a daughter. 16. In Upper Gower-street, the lady of lieut. col. sir Charles Dance, a daughter. 18. At the very rev. the dean of Canterbury's, the lady of George Baker, esq. a daughter. At Crofton-house, near Titchfield, Hants, the lady of Thos. Naghtan, 5. In Bolton-street, the lady of the hon. T. Knox, M. P. for Dungannon, a daughter. At Viscount Northland's, in Upper Grosvenor-street, the lady of the hon. capt. Knox, R. N. a daughter. 6. In Great Maddox-street, the lady of major Carlyon, a son and heir. At Wheathamsted, Herts, the lady of the rev. G. T. Pretyman, a son. 8. At Colchester, the lady of the rev. Dr. George Holt, a daughter. 9. At Bifrons, near Canterbury, the marchioness of Ely, a son. At Coley-park, the lady of J. B. Monck, esq. M. P. a son. 13. In Baker-street, the lady of W. James, esq. M. P. a son. In Portland-place, lady Ravensworth, a daughter. At Walton-upon-Thames, the lady of W. Parker, esq. a daughter. Mrs. Spencer Perceval, a daughter. 14. In Park-street, the lady of sir T. Jones, a daughter. In Burton-crescent, the lady of J. R. Burchett, esq. a daughter. 15. In St. James's-square, the hon. lady Vane Stewart, a daughter. 19. In Upper Wimpole-street, lady Amelia Sophia Boyce, a son. 22. At Brentry-house, Gloucestershire, the wife of John Cave, esq. a daughter. 23. At Eton, the wife of rev. Dr. Keate, a son. The wife of Dr. Uwins, Bedford-row, a daughter. 26. At Yester-house, Haddington, marchioness of Tweedale, a son and heir. 30. At Upminster-house, near Stamford, countess of Lindsey, a daughter. At Gilstone-house, Fifeshire, the lady of captain Parsons, a son. At Edinburgh, the lady of R. Montgomery, esq. a son. At Dominick-street, Dublin, the duchess of Leinster, a daughter. In Dawson-street, Dublin, the lady of lieut.-col. Verner, a son and heir. At Bombay, the lady of R. Baxter, esq. of Camomile-street, London, a son and heir. At Paris, the lady of T. Ashmore, esq. a son. MAY. 3. At Castle-house, Great Torring BIRTHS. ton, Devon, the lady of A. W. J. Deane, esq. a daughter. 4. At his lordship's house, in Piccadilly, the countess of Roseberry, a daughter. The lady of the right hon. Robert Peel, a son. 5. At his seat, Cuerden-hall, the lady of R. Townley Parker, esq. a son. 6. The lady of A. Trevor, esq. a son. 7. At his house, in Devonshirestreet, the lady of James Alexander, esq. M. P. a son. 9. At Thomas'-hotel, Berkeley-sq. Mrs. Lane Fox, a daughter. At Kew-green, the lady of John Bishop, esq. a son. 12. In Bernard-street, Russellsquare, Mrs. John George Parry, a daughter. 13. At his seat, near Exeter, the lady of Alex. Hamilton Hamilton, esq. of the Retreat in Devonshire, and of Hullerbirst in the county of Ayr, a son. 15. At Rushall, Wilts, lady Poore, a daughter. At the Vicarage, Bedfont, the lady of the rev. Dr. Jones, a daughter. 20. In Mortimer-street, Cavendishsquare, the lady of colonel Hugh Baillie, a son. 22. In Montague-place, the wife of lieut.-col. Cowper, a daughter. The wife of Dr. Howell, of Clifton, a daughter. 23. Mrs. T. Daniell, of Little Berkhampstead, a son. The lady of sir Jacob Astley, of Melton Constable, Norfolk, and Seaton Delaval, Yorkshire, a son and heir. 24. At Whitehall, the wife of Jos. Phillimore, LL.D. and M. P. a 13 and 15. At Aranjuez, the princesses of Don Carlos and Don Francis Paulo, brothers to the king of Spain, of sons. JUNE. 2. At Garboldham-hall, the marchioness of Blandford, a son and heir, who takes the title of the earl of Sunderland. 3. In Grosvenor-square, the lady of John Maberly, esq. M. P. a daughter. 4. At East Farleigh, the wife of rev. A. Cooper, a daughter. At Leamington, the lady of sir Eardley Wilmot, bart. a son. 5. At Bognor, the lady of sir Wm. Dick, bart. a daughter. 6. The lady of the rev. Henry White, of Kew-green, a daughter. 7. In Manchester-square, the lady of sir Henry Lambert, bart. a son and heir. 10. In Berkeley-square, the right hon. the countess of Dartmouth, a son and heir, who takes the title of visc. Lewisham. Lady Sheffield, of Normanby, a daughter. At Ashprington house, the wife of major-general Adams, a son and heir. 14. In Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-square, the lady of major-general sir John Keane, K.C.B. a son. 16. The lady of the rev. Charles Shipley, rector of Mappowder, in the county of Dorset, a daughter. 18. At Basildon-park, the lady of sir Francis Sykes, bart. a son and heir. At Brentford Butts, the lady of Henry Ronald, M. D. a daughter. 19. In Upper Brook-street, the lady of lieut. col. sir T. Noel Hill, a daugh ter. At Repell's-green, Kent, the lady of sir Charles Dalrymple, a son. 23. At Brighton, the lady of Dr. Blair, a son. 26. The lady of Thomas Denman, esq. M. P. common-serjeant of the city of London. a daughter. 29. At Eaglehurst, viscountess Kilcoursie, a son. At Havre de Grace, the lady of William Davidson, esq. a daughter. Her royal highness, the princess of Orange, a prince. At Naples, the lady of Charles |