From Melville's "Redburn" (1849):

This passing allusion to the murder will convey some idea of the events which take place in the lowest and most abandoned neighborhoods frequented by sailors in Liverpool. The pestilent lanes and alleys which, in their vocabulary, go by the names of Rotten-row, Gibraltar-place, and Booble alley, are putrid with vice and crime; to which, perhaps, the round globe does not furnish a parallel. The sooty-and begrimed bricks of the very houses have a reeking, Sodomlike, and murderous look; and well may the shroud of coal smoke, which hangs over this part of the town, more than any other, attempt to hide the enormities here practiced. These, are the haunts from which sailors sometimes disappear forever; or issue in the morning, robbed naked, from the broken door-ways. These are the haunts in which cursing, gambling, pickpocketing, and common iniquities, are virtues too lofty for the infected gorgons and hydras to practice. Propriety forbids that I should enter into details; but kidnappers, bunkers, and resurrectionists are almost saints and angels to them. They seem leagued together, a company of miscreant misanthropes, bent upon doing all the malice to mankind in their power. With sulphur and brimstone they ought to be burned out of their arches like vermin."

Marryat mentions "Buble alley" in the version of "Sally Brown" he prints in "A Diary in America" (1839).