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    The only remaining objection that X know of , arises from the depression to which trade is at present subject . If the appeal in this letter had been made to the lower classes of the community , it is admitted the objection would have had its force . If it had

    been made solely to our laymen of easy fortunes , but who have themselves families to provide for , and whose benevolent hearts deeply commiserate the sad condition of the poor around them , there would still perhaps be some appearance of reason : —but the appeal is made , as before stated , to the young men of fortune either in or out of trade

    who have yet little of the cares of the world , who have just passed through their elementary education , whose minds are deeply impressed with the value and efficacy of truth , and who can easily spare a small portion of their spending money , to the promotion of the noble object which is now

    contemplated . ± o such of our body , all who feel interested in the progress of our plans for improvement in knowledge and religion , must look with the utmost confidence . The preachers

    who are successively educated in our seminaries , may raise their voices in the support of truth , they may contribute by their labours in public and private to the respectability of the cause ; but after all , their success

    will very much depend upon their lay brethren who possess wealth to strengthen the hands of their ministers , md give them their sanction and assistance . If any such , influenced by ihese friendly and well-intended suggestions , should come forwards to raise

    this monument to the memory of one who laboured incessantly for the young in particular , to contribute their individual efforts to rescue eminent talents from abuse and calumny , to dissipate the mists of prejudice , bigotry and superstition which envelope the religious atmosphere , —happy will the writer of this letter deem himself to be , and

    full y compensated for the little trouble which it has occasioned him ; though this has been already sufficiently rewarded by the mere prospect of the disinterested effort * which he ha » now contemplated . I am , Sir , with best wishes for the lucces . s of your very useful Repository , A SUBSCRIBER OF THE THIRD PL ASS .

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    524 Singular Account of the Gipsies .

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    The Gipsies . [ From the Liverpool Freeman ; or Weetlt Magazine . Price 6 d . No . 6 . Aue /

    OF late years some attempts have been made to reduce the numbers or at any rate to civilize the habits , of that vagabond and useless race , the Gipsies . In pursuance of such purpose , a society of gentlemen have been making all the preliminary inquiries requisite to a proper understanding of the subject . A series of questions have been proposed to competent persons in the different counties of England and Scotland ; and answers have been received . Our readers will , we think , be amused with the

    following specimen of these answers : — 1 . All Gipsied suppose the first of them came from Egypt . 2 . They cannot form any idea : of the number in England . 3 . The Gipsies of Bedfordshire ,

    Hertfordshire , parts of Buckinghamshire , Cambridge and , Huntingdonshire , are continually making revolutions within the ranges of those counties . 4 . They are either ignorant of the number of Gipsies in the counties through which they travel , or un * willing to disclose their knowledge . 5 . The most common names are

    Smith , Cooper , Draper , Taylor , Boswell , Lee , Lovell , Loversedge , Allen , Mansfield , Glover , Williams , Carew , Martin , Stanley , Buckley , Plunkett , and Corrie . 6 and 7 . The gangs in different

    towns have not any regular connexioa or organization ; but those who take up their winter quarters in the same city or town appear to have some knowledge of the different routes each horde will pursue ; probably with a

    desire to prevent interference . 8 . In the county of Herts h & computed there may be sixty families having many children . Whether they are quite so numerous in Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , and Northamptonshire , the answers are not sufficiently definite to determine , in Cambridgeshire , Oxfordshire , VVarwickshire , Wiltshire , and Dorsetshire , ? rearer numbers are calculated upon . n various counties , the attention nas not been competent to the procuri ng data for any estimate of families w individuals .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/24/