The Sun. — 1832-09-11 (London, England)

ATTACK OF CHOLERA.—•The Loan MAYOR was informed that a female pauper, named Ellen Grayley, who had been frequently brought up on charges of disorder, drunkenness, &c., and was well known as a most ungovernable spirit, was carried off that morning by a violent attack of cholera. The unfortunate woman had been a participator in some extraordinary scenes. Some years ago she fell in love with the grave-digger of Bishopsgate, and soon had to swear a child to hint. Yesterday, as one of the parish officers was going to the workhouse, he met the grave-digger with a spade, and was addressed by him :—" I say, Master Booker, you know my Nell Grayley, she what swore the child to me. Blow'd if I a'nt a going for to make her last bed for her. They tells me she died of the maubus, but if you believe me, she died of her last shilling's worth of gin--a great deal a better thing." Upon further inquiry, it was ascertained that on Saturday last Nell Grayley was at the Nlansion- !tense, where she received a shilling, with which she went direct to a ginshop, and after having about a quarter of an hour's soli• tary enjoyment, she departed drunk. She was soon found in all the misery of spasmodic cholera, and which finished her before she became sober. It is believed that the poor wretch was in the very arms of the disease when she applied at the Mansion-house, and that in her terror she drank off an immoderate quantity of that which she had long considered a specific against disorders of all kinds. Patricia Sweeney, an Iri•lt tailor, was charged by his wife with having beaten her in a desperate manner. The defendant, it appeared, in his anxiety to remove from his calling the charge of disproportion in the rank of men, quarrelled with everybody the moment be took a ninth part of the quantity of gin which an ordinary man would take. His wife, of course, came in for a share of his valour, and on the present occasion she presented two black eyes and a swollen face, the work of his hands. She vowed that if some terrible vengeance were not held over him, murder must be the consequence. Mr. Smith, the wharfinger and Common Councilman, said, that the tailor resided in his ward, and so desperate a man, when tipsy, never was beheld. Although the defendant was a very small man, and " somewhat descended in the vale of years," be was able, with the assistance of a cup or two, to resist the attacks of a multitude. He (Mr. Smith) saw him without coat, waistcoat, or shirt, fighting with several persons ; upon whom, although they beat the skin off his neck and shoulders with sticks, he retaliated in such a manner with his fists, as to cause the utmost astonishment. If compulsory measures were not adopted, the Ward would not be safe from the attacks of this " magnanimous" tailor. The defendant said, it was true his wife was a good one, and that he formed a just estimate of her good qualities; but it was likewise true that liquor had the effect of turning in his imagination all those good qualities into bad ones. One drop above the quartern did the trick, and he was determined iu future never to exceed that measure, except when some of his brothers of the thimble should come over, and that wouldn't happen more than once a year ; and at that time his wife might easily keep out o  The defendant said, that at that rate the law wee a very bad one. Besides the severity thus exercised, be complained of the demand now made for the expense of putting him to all this annoyance. The distress would cost 84. already, and one day more would swallow the value of his few poor sticks, so that the broker must come in for what he might call his house and borne. The landlord spoke of a great variety of disappoint. ments which he had endured with the patience of Job, and was still disposed to act with indulgence, if security were given for the payment of the broker's fees. The LORD MAYOR regretted that be should be obliged to commit the defendant until a settlement of the tees should take place. It was much to be lamented that tilt last Act of Parliament upon the subject had regulated the broker's fees so as to add greatly to the distress of an unfortunate defendant.