19. And who is thy neighbour?
Read the parable of the Good Samaritan, and _Go and do likewise_. Luke
x. 15.

The author will finally conclude by observing, that England will have a
great deal to answer for in reference to the Gipsies of past generations.
For, from a very moderate calculation that he has made, 150,000 of these
outcasts have passed into the eternal world, uninformed, unacquainted
with God, since they came to this country. May the present, and
succeeding generations, be wiser than the past!

APPENDIX.

Since the GIPSIES' ADVOCATE was put to press, the author, as might
naturally be expected on a subject so interesting as the conversion of
the Gipsies, has had many other pleasing communications. From his
Bristol correspondents he has been favoured with several of delightful
interest, in reference to a small colony in that neighbourhood; and these
state that several of the Gipsies not only begin to evidence an aversion
to their former life, but increase in seriousness, and in habits of
industry. And happy is he to say, that several influential Christians of
that city are growing in the interest they manifest to these outcasts of
society; for they are endeavouring to improve every opportunity of
affording them instruction. It is with peculiar pleasure too, the author
learns, that the students of the Baptist Academy of the above-named city,
are not dead to the affecting necessities of this poor people. Some of
the students of that academy spent the whole of one day in endeavouring
to find one of their large encampments, of which they had had some
previous information, and spent the evening in giving such instruction as
appeared to them to be the best calculated to enlighten and reform the
people to whom they were so anxious to do good; some of them occupying
themselves with the children, and others with the adults. May their
example have its due influence on surrounding Christians!

The author must not forget to mention here, that he has been apprised by
the clergyman in Scotland, whose letter forms so interesting a part of
the ninth chapter, that the account he mentioned to him, as gaining
insertion in a statistical publication, has not been published, he
believes, in consequence of the death of the gentleman who had interested
himself for its insertion in the work referred to; but that he hopes it
may meet the public eye in a short time.

And now, having redeemed the pledge which he gave