ets with trinkets and
small wares, and tell fortunes. 13. In most counties there are
particular situations to which they are partial. 15, 16, and 17. Do not
know of any person that can write the language, or of any written
specimen of it. 19. Those who profess any religion represent it to be
that of the country in which they reside; but their description of it
seldom goes beyond repeating the Lord's Prayer, and only a few of them
are capable of that. 20. They marry, for the most part, by pledging to
each other, without any ceremony. 21. They do not teach their children
religion. 22 and 23. Not _one in a thousand can read_. Most of these
answers were confirmed by Riley Smith, who, during many years, was
accounted the chief of the Gipsies in Northamptonshire. Mr. John Forster
and Mr. William Carrington, respectable merchants of Biggleswade, and who
knew Riley Smith well, corroborated his statements. After Hoyland had
published his book no one stepped into the breach, with flag in hand, to
take up the cry; and for several years--except the efforts of a clergyman
here and there--the interest in the cause of the Gipsies dwindled down,
and became gradually and miserably less, and the consequence was the
Gipsies have not improved an iota during the three centuries they have
been in our midst. As they were, so they are, and likely to remain
unless brought under State control.

"On the winds
A voice came murmuring, 'We must work and wait';
And every echo in the far-off fen
Took up the utterance: 'We must work and wait.'
Her spirit felt it, 'We must work and wait.'"

HARRIS.

No one heeded the warning. No one listened to the cries of the poor
Gipsy children as they glided into eternity. No one put out their hands
to save them as they kept disappearing from the gaze of the bystanders,
among whom were artificial Christians, statesmen, and philanthropists.
All was as still as death, and the poor black wretches passed away.

Whether His Majesty George III. had ever read Grellmann's or Hoyland's
works on Gipsies has not been shown. The following interesting account
will show that royal personages are not deaf to the cries of suffering
humanity, be it in a Gipsy's wigwam, a cottage, or palace. It is taken
from a missionary magazine for June, 1823, and in all probability the
circumstance took place not many years prior to