with suitable and proper
clothing. (4) No Gipsy was allowed to marry who could not prove himself
in a condition to provide for and maintain a wife and children. (5) That
from such Gipsies who were married and had families, the children should
be taken away by force, removed from their parents, relations, or
intercourse with the Gipsy race, and to have a better education given to
them. At Fahlendorf, in Schutt, and in the district of Prassburg, all
the children of the New Boors (Gipsies) above five years old were carried
away in waggons on the night of the twenty-first of December, 1773, by
overseers appointed for that purpose, in order, that, at a distance from
their parents or relations, they might be more usefully educated and sent
to work. (6) They were to be taught the principles of religion, and
their children educated. Their children were prohibited running about
their houses, streets, or roads naked, and they were not to be allowed to
sleep promiscuously by each other without distinction of sex. (7) They
were enjoined to attend church regularly, and to give proof of their
Christian disposition, and they were not to wear large cloaks, which were
chiefly used to hide the things they had stolen. (8) They were to be
kept to agriculture, and were only to be permitted to amuse themselves
with music when their day's work was finished. (9) The magistrates at
every place were to be very attentive to see that no Gipsy wasted his
time in idleness, and whoever was remiss in his work was to be liable to
corporal punishment.

All these suggestions and plans of operation may not suit English life;
be that as it may, they were suitable to the condition of the Hungarian
Gipsies, and no doubt laid the foundation for the improvement that has
taken place among them. The Hungarian Gipsies are educated, and are
tillers of the soil. If a plan similar in some respects had been carried
out with our Gipsies at the same period, we should not by this time have
had a Gipsy-tent in the country, or an uneducated Gipsy in our land.
What a different aspect would have presented itself ere this, if the
5,000 Gipsies among us had been tilling our waste lands and commons for
the last century. With proper management, these 5,000 Gipsy men could
have bought and kept under cultivation some 20,000 acres of land for the
well-being of themselves and for the good of the country. There is
neglect, indifference, and apathy somewhere. The blame w