The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-14 00:00:00

MA RLBOROU GH-STREET.

;mu named Lacey, in the employ of Messrs.
Sewell Ond Cross, the silk-mercers, in Compton-
street, was charged wiTh defrauding his employers.
The prisoner had nothing to ,74yin his delenee,and
Mr. DYER, in remandii:g him, obaervod !lint the
firm 6f Se yell and Cross were more frequently plun-
dered by their own servants than any other house in
the mtropolis.
An old part, who said his name was Robinson,
was rharged with being drunk and disorderly in the
streets at two 0,0405 in the !Wiling.
In his defence, he said that spuip persons gave
him a few glasses of g; for singing hymns to them,
Mr. DYER—Where did you sing your hymns ?
Robinson—ln public-houses ; I have no other way
of procuring my living than by selling religious
tracts and singing hymns.
Mr. Piigt-,-1 4m certain that none of your tracts
teach inordinate 4,ipkinnj Robinson—They do
not, your Worship; the ‘Setiptßfilf recommend so-
briety ; but I 'was taint, and the liiinn; u•az. giypn to
me as a stimulant.

The defendant was fined ss, and in default of
payment he was locked up,
A yo•ani woman, named Mary Moriarty, was
brought before F, BAH; the sitting Magistrate,
charged with a series or outiog7 con mitted by her
t the house of Mr. Rully, landlord ofM pt:blic-
hertv.e 0-;;Jed the Cock, in St. Giles's
The prlsoi,ew, who although rather short in sta-
ture, is
cf. almost gigapri,:: qreneth, was brought to
the office in a hackney-coatch, awl so nowt,' fill was
her resistance to the constables Oat Wregniro the
strength of sib :nen united to secure her, and it was
not until after a most desperate fight, in which she
several times knocked down her opponents, that zhe

waq at length overpowered by numbers, and her
arms and legs being made fast with ropes, she was
deposited, thus bound together, in the bottom of the
coach, and conveyed to the office; but even thus
tied up, it required two men in the coach with her
to prevent her from - tearing asunder with her teeth
the cords by which her arms were fastened, and in
their efforts to prevent her, they themselves suffered so
severely from her dental powers, that it was only by
keeping their legs up on the seats of the coach that
they could save those appendages from being nearly
devoured ; but thus foiled in her cannibal attempts
upon the constables, she bit the flesh from- her own
arms in a shocking manner. When placed at the
bar before the Magistrate, and unbound from her
fasteninws, she presented a most appalling appear-
ance ; her cloths torn from her person, and hanging
around her only by shreds; her hair wildly floating,
about her neck, and her countenance hideously con-
torted with rage, while a profuse perspiration poured
over it, and the streams of blood flowed down her
lacerated arms from the wounds she had herself in-
flicted, exhibiting, on the whole, a dreadful example
of 'ungovernable passion, arising chiefly from the
state of comparative exhaustion into which her pre-
vious efforts had thrown her. She remained to-
lerably quiet while she stood within the bar, but
even in this temporary calm, the gaolers, constables,
&c. deemed it most prudent to keep a watchful eye
on her movements, and stand at a respectful distance
fr•otn her arm's length.
Mr. Rully, who evidently laboured under no slight
terror, stated that the prisoner came into his house
that morning, and took her seat uninvited amongst
some of his customers in the parlour, and called for
something to drink, but he refused to serve her with
any thing, knowing that she was" a most trouble-
same customer, and that it was very dangerous to
have her in the house at all; but she positively re-
fused to quit the place until she should have some-
thing to drink, and on being remonstrated with by a
man in the room, she turned round, and without
further ceremony floored him. He (Mr. Rully)
then went to attempt to put-her out, but she served
him in like manner; and she also violently assaulted
Mrs. Rully, who came to his aid; Green the beadle
was then called to get her out of the house, " but,
Lord bless your worship," said Mr. Roily, " he had.
no more chance with her than I had myself," and
at last it was not until six constables assisted, that
she coukl be at all managed ; " and even then," said
Mr. Roily, " she did not go without leaving her
mark behind her, for with one slash of her arm she
smashed the frame of one of the windows, and six
panes ofglass into the bargain."
Green, who is a very powerful man, said that in
the course of his time for some years past, as beadle
of St. Giles's parish, he bud had to deal H ith many
violent and desperate characters, both male and .fe-
male, but he declared that never in his life did he
meet with the prisoner's equal, or any thing to come
near her; he had had several conflicts, he said, with
the renowned Lady Burrymore, who was no child
to play with, but her Ladyship it' her best day was
a mere rush compared with the prisoner.
Mr. ROB asked Mr. Hully what the value
of the glass was that the prisoner had broken ? Mr.
Roily replied, that the glass alone was 3s. a pane;
that was 18s.
Mr. Roe then said, that instead of holding the
prisfmer to bail for the various assaults she had com-
mitted, he would order her to pay the amount of the
damage, and in default would commit her for two
months to hard labour in the House of Correction.
Eighteen shdlings it was quite clear the-prisoner
could not pay, and would not, it was equally clear,
if she could; so that it became necessary to remove
her at once from the bar according to. her sentence,
but the question was how was this removal to be
accomplished.

Miss Moriarty ha:! placed herself by this time
badger-fashion, with her rear buried in one of the
angles of the bar, and standing completely at bay
with the most mischievous determination flashing in
her eye, while she kept bellowing loud enough to be
heard round the neighbourhood, " What am I to
pay ? what am I to pay ?" without ever meaning to
wait for an answer. Gaolers, beadles, and constables
looked very significantly one at the other, as much
as to say, " I wish you would go first." Neither,
however, for some time ventured to approach ; but
all tried the soothing system, such as " My good
woman, do come out.."—" You will only make
your self ill," &e. ; but they might us well have
spoken such gentle addresses to a she-bear, for Miss
Moriarty heeded them nor, but kept on her unceas
ing roar—" What am I to pay ?" Until at last a
whole posse of the " civil power," as many as the
space within the bar could hold, about 15, made a
Simultaneous rush, and seizing Mary Moriarty at all
points, once more, after a fearful struggle, bound her
together neck and heels,and carried her by main force
in a lump to one of the dark cages at the back of the
office, where they turned her loose to reflect in

gloomy solitude on the exploits she had been per-
forming until the horn• arrived for another forcible
conveyance of her, per caravan, to the tread-mill.