to excite the good, than
the bad dispositions of human nature.

Must not the torrent of invective and abuse, almost universally poured
upon this people, tend to disaffect and indispose them to civil
association! Despised and ill-treated as they often are, have they not
reason to imagine the hand of every man to be against them? Who then can
wonder at their eluding, as much as possible, the inquiries of strangers!

Looking at their condition among the various inhabitants of Europe,
dignified with the Christian name, the writer has often been reminded of
the universality of the Gospel call, as illustrated in the parable of the
great supper. After the invitation had been given throughout the streets
and lanes of the cities, the command to the servants was: "Go out into
the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in." Here is a
description that may have been intended specially to apply to this
people, so exactly and even literally adapted to their condition, in all
countries, is the language: "Go ye into the highways and hedges." And
the distinction in their case is rendered still more remarkable by the
very pressing injunction, "Compel them to come in."

Does it not admit of the inference, that as outcasts of society, being
under greater disadvantages than the other incited classes, their
situation requited a more powerful stimulus to be applied?

The account of the sufferings of Gypsies in winter, having been confirmed
by many concurring testimonies, from the inhabitants of Northamptonshire,
the following Circular was sent into most of the Counties of England,
with a view to ascertain their state in other parts of the nation.

CIRCULAR.

When it is considered how much the exertions of the wise, the
philanthropic, and the good, in all parts of the nation, have been
directed to advancing the morals and religious instruction of the lower
orders of the community, it appears almost incredible that one
description of British subjects, and of all others the most abject and
depraved, should have been either entirely overlooked or neglected. The
Gypsies, to whom this applies, are a people which, more than any other,
it might have been considered the interest of society to reclaim, because
of the depredations they commit upon it.

The efforts of the good, and of the great, have not been confined to
meliorating the condition of the inhabitants of this country only, they
have been directed to the alleviation o