Star. — 1805-11-29 (London, England)

EVELYN PIERREPONT DORMER. The Defendant was this day brought up, according to the order of their Lordlltips, to receive the fentence of the Court. Mr. Dormer had permitted judgment to go by default, on an information filed againft him for feuding a challenge to Robert Knight, Efq. his brother-in-law : the circumftances of the cafe we have already given fully to the public in our Paper of Wedncfday . Mr. Mice Gear, in delivering fentence on the Defendant, laid, • 64 Evelyn Pierrepoint Dormer, you are to receive. judgment of the Court, having confeffed that you are guilty of having fent a challenge to Robert Knight, Efq. to provoke him to fight a duel. It is contained in a letter, in which you declare yourfclf the brother of the Profecutor's wife, and in which von hate, that the condira of your fifter, fince her 41)s:ration front her boiband, has been according to the firiaeft rules eftahlilh-cd by the world, and that you fhpuld give her your utmoft affiftance ; that fhe had been grofsly abufed and ill•treated, and that you were to be found at Kirkham's hotel.' Had this letter alone appeared before a Jury, they could bath entertained no doubt upon it ; but if your intent had not been clear, the fecond letter would have obviated all difficulty; in that you Rate, ' that fince Mr. Knight was determined to commence a criminal profee mion againft you, you begged the Court might be ini-ormed of your prefent opinion of his charaaer, which wa,, that he was a liar, a coward, and a fcoundrA.' Thus you bade all defiance to every Court of Jolliet. In this criminal traofadioa, what was your intention? It was to take away the life of your fitter's hufband, and to imbrue your hands in your bruther's.blood. Although this may be confittent with the millaken laws of falfe hondar, it is' totally inconfiftent with the law of the land. It is much to be lamented, that after the unwearied pains taken by this Court to publith the law on this fubjea that you, as a gentleman of education and fenfe, thuuld have been ignorant of it. If you did know, and have thus tranfgreffed it, it affords an additional ciicumilanco of aggravation. The letter is not only a challenge, but it was defigned to vilify and de grade the Prufteutor. Imagine that your brother had fallen a viaim to your mifguided pal Eons, and that you had been %nought before site awful tribunal  to receive the dreadful fentenee of the law fi,r a linrrid and inhuman murder : it is not for the Court toll diaate what wuuld then have been your feelings ; it  leaves you to ponder on what would have been your unfortunate lituation, and it is only for the kind ap.  plication of the Profecutor to the law for hi) defence, that you are not probably placed in that predicament. The Lot, will nut delay to vital, with the greaten feverity, the fe who, like you, bid defiance to Courts of Judicature. As fir circumllances of mi'igatinn, we are furry to fee there are none, and in your affidavit there were only fume topics turmifed, but not Rated to the Court. To fuch grounds of mit.gation we can pay no attention, and we arc unable to take them into our conlideratioa. Under all the circumstances of the cafe, this Court does older  and adjudge, that you pay to the King a fine of 501. be committed to the cuttody of the Marthal of the Marl:aka for three months, and give fccurity for your peaceable behaviour for tit:cc years, yourfelf in sod. and two fureties in 2501. each.