one of these projects which are only talked
of and never begun; but that it may tend to the glory of His name and to
the bringing back of these poor lost sheep to the fold of their
Redeemer." "J. P." writes to the same Journal, April 28, 1810, in which
he says:--"Circumstances lead to think that were encouragement given to
them the Gipsies would be inclined to live in towns and villages like
other people; and would in another generation become civilised, and with
the pains which are now taken to educate the poor, and to diffuse the
Scriptures and the knowledge of Christ, would become a part of the
regular fold. It would require much patient continuance in well doing in
those who attempted it, and they must be prepared, perhaps, to meet with
some untowardness and much disappointment." "Fraternicus" sums up the
correspondence by suggesting a plan of taking the school to the Gipsies
instead of taking the Gipsies to the schools:--"If the compulsory
education of the Gipsies had taken place a century ago, and their tents
brought under some sort of sanitary inspection, what a change by this
time would have taken place in their habits," &c.; and he further
says:--"By degrees they might be brought to attend divine worship; and if
in the parish of a pious clergyman he would probably embrace the
opportunity of teaching them. Much might be done by a pious schoolmaster
and schoolmistress, by whom the girls might be taught different kinds of
work, knitting, sewing, &c. Should these suggestions be deemed worthy of
your insertion, they might, perhaps, awaken the attention of some
benevolent persons, whose superior talents and experience in the ways of
beneficence would enable them to perfect and carry into execution a plan
for the effectual benefit of these unhappy portioners of our kind."

"Junius," in the _Northampton Mercury_, under date June 27th, 1814,
writes:--"When we consider the immense sums raised for every probable
means of doing good which have hitherto been made public, we cannot doubt
if a proper method should be proposed for the relief and ameliorating the
state of these people it would meet with deserved encouragement. Suppose
that legislature should think this not unworthy its notice, and as a part
of the great family they ought not to be overlooked." Another
correspondent to the same Journal, "A Friend of Religion," writes under
date July 21st, 1815, urging the necessity of some means being adopted
for their im