The Sun. — 1833-11-30 (London, England)

FRIVA LE. ) ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN COURT.  The creditors of Charles Gregory, of Luzon, Bedfordshire, malt-ter, met to-day, in order to be present at the last examination of the bankrupt. The proceedings under the commission are not of any importance either as regards the amount of debts or the trading operations of the bankrupt, but only deserve notice in consequence of a determined attempt on the part of the bankrupt to stab himself while under a private examination a few days since. The brother of the bankrupt was under examinatrot) as to some imputed acts of collusion, and the answers not being of a satisfactory nature, the Commissioner threatened to commit the brother unless he gave more correct intelligence as to his connection with the affairs of the bankrupt. The threat had hardly escaped the lips of the Commissioner that► the bankrupt took a large clasp knife from his pocket, tore open his waistcoat, and made two thrusts with the open instrument at his left breast. In the second attempt the knife, it is imagined, struck against part of the buckle of the braces, and the blade was turned off arid shut up. The utmost confusion existed in the Court, and many persons rushed towards the bankrupt, and after a severe struggle took the knife from him. By the first s►roke the bankrupt cut himself, the blood firfl:rised copiously, and Gregory fell back, apparently in a dying state, to the consternation of the 1% hole Court. The wound was exam ned and found to be very slight, and by no means dangerous. The further proceedings were adjourned until this day, when the answers of the bankrupt were so unsatisfactory that Mr. Commiss over MERIVALE felt bound to adjourn the final examination sine die.  COURT OF ADMIRALTY, Nov. 29.  (Before Sir JoJIN Nrciv.:LL.) THE MARIk:.A.  Dr. ADDAMS had a moron to make, which was, that the Court should direct the pa)ment out of the registry of 9801, the proceeds of the sale of the schooner Mariana and her cargo, to the officers and crew of his Majesty's ship Primrose, under the following circumstances :—The Donna Mariana was a Brazilian vessel, and was cap, to ed 4,11 Lagos and carried in o Sierra Leco;e by tie Primrose, si e having been engaged in the slave trade, the ce-sel having first been captuted by the Campadoria, a piratical vessel, and recaptured by ttie Primrose. Proceedings w ei'e commenced in the Vice-Admiralty Court of Sierra Leone, and the vessel was condemned as a good and lawful piize, in June, 1829, to Captain Gieenhoff, the Commander of the Primrose. He ( Dr. A.) could not then contend ti.at his sentence was in good form or correct in point of taw. After the sentence hairbeen given the Braz pan Consul intervened on be ralf of Brazilian subjects generally, and the Judge of the ViceAdmnalty Court suireittied his decision, on the alleged ground that the vessel was Brazilian ptopetty, and decreed one-eighth of the proc. eds to ne paid to Cup ain Greentiotr, and directed the remaining seven-eighths to temain in the military chest at Sierra Leone, to meet the claims of Big,zilian subjects. lesh proceedings were cornmetired in the March foTowing by the Captain of the Primrose to recover the remaining seveneighths, their being no Braz lian claimants, on the ground that the ship was engaged in the illegal traffic f slaves, and the Judge then decreed that the remaining seven-eighths of the proceeds of the .essel were the lawful prize of Captain Gieenhoff. l'tie money was now in he Registry, and the substantial interest was vested between the Captain and the Crown. The latter had consented to the decision of the V►ce-Admiralty Curt as far as it