The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-20 00:00:00

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14e years some Atti4,‘4ptli have been made
to reduce the 'lumbers, or at any rate to civilize
the.habits, of that vagabo and useless race, the
in,pittsuance of such put pose a society
o .gentlemen have been flaking ull the prelimi-
naryinquiiies requisite tc a proper understanding
of the 4uhject. A serie6 of qoestions have been
promsed,:lo. competent persons in the different
conntips fingland and Scotland ; and answers
haveplieen received.. Our readers %vill, we think,
be amuscil,7ith the following specimen of these
questions and answers.:--
, .
1. From whence is it said the Gipsies first
Came ?

" 2. How me.ny is it siiptiobed there are in
England ?
d•
" 3. What is your circuit in summer ?
" f. tiowinaily Gipsy families are 'supposed to
be in it ?
•

What are the names of them ?
,
''6, rime they any weetiogs with those of
other circuits
" 7. Anti tor what purpose ? ,

" 8. What number of Gipsies are there cont.
pitted to be in the county ?
" J. What prOpoTtion of their number tallow
talsinCSS, and what. kind
10. What do they bring their children tip to.?
44 13. ,What do the women- employ them-
selves in ?
" 12. From bow many generations can they
trace their descent ?
" la. Have they kept to one part of the coun-
try, or removed to distant parts ?
" 14. ,flow long have they lived in this part ?
" 15. Have they any speech of their own
different to that used by /ober pe .ple ?
" 16. What do they call its Can any one
write it 1
" 17. Is there any writingtobeseen any where?
" 'lB. ,Ilave they any rules of c.otoluet which
arc gengral to their community ? •
40 19. What religion do they mostly profess ? •
" 20. Po,they marry, and in whatotanmet ?
" 21. Haw do they teach their children re-
ligion ?
" 22. Do any at them learn to read ?
" 23. Who teaches them ?
" 24. Have they any houses tO go to Ia win-
ter? • .
" 25. What proportion of theui, is it sUpposed,
liveout of doors in winter as in summer ?"
Reports la answer to these questions have been
received, and their contents are thus briefly

itute'd :-- • •
1. All Gipsies suppcie the first of them came
.."
from Egypt.
2. They cannot form any idea of the number
in England.
7s; The- Gipt,ies of Bedf,irdslvire, Hertford.
sliire, parts ot ISnekingliatnshire, Catnbridge,-inad
Illinting(lnnhhire, are eon, insittit waking revolt,.
(ion.within' the, range ot-. those eonnties.
"4. They are et ignorant ot the ntimher
of Pipsies in •the ronnties througlt which they
travel, or i 4,1 diselust: their knowledge.
"5. The Most COll,lllol' naine are -•lnith,
.Cnoper, Draper, Taylor, Bosswel, Lee,
Loversedgc, ,Mansfield, Glover,
Carew, Martin, Stanley, Buckley, Plunkett, Ana

.t .
" G and 7. The gangs in different towns have
not any regular connexion or organization ; but
those who take op their winter-quatters. in the
same city or town appear to have some know-
ledge of the different routes eat.llt horde will pur.
sue; protbibly with a design to prevent inter-
ferenee.
8, In the county of lierts it, is computed
there may,he sixty fautilies,-having nriny,childrett.
‘Vhether they ere quite so ntonerous. in
.. Bucking 7
hit nighire, Pedfordsh told Noll ha intonshire, the
atiS,Wttri are not stalieleirtly definite to determine.
lq.Canthridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire,
‘Viltshire, and Dorsetshire greater numbers are
calculated ,upon. 10 various counties the atten.
ton has not been competent to the procuring data
for any estiotatf of families or individuals.
9. More than half their number follow no
ltsine,s : others are dealers in horses and asses;
fartiers, ,miths, tinkers, braziers, winders of
cutlery, basket-makers, chairbuttomers, and _mu-

siciaus, .
• ''.lo. Children are,brought np in the /habits of
their parents, particularly to music and dancing,
hod are of dissolute conduct.
" 11. The women mostly carry baskets with
trinkets and small wares.; and tell fortunes.
.“ 12. Too ignorant ,to have acquired accounts
of genearlogy, and perhaps indisposed to it by the
irregularity of their habits.
" 13, In most counties there are particular
situations to Which they arc partial. In Berk•
bhirr is a marsh,,iiciir Newbury,
,ffitieli frequented
by them ; and Dr. Clarke states, that in Caul-
bridgeshite their principal rendezvotti is near the',
western villages.
" 14. it cannot be ascertained whether, from
their first coining into the nation, attachment to
piirticidar places tn's prevailed.
" .15, 16, and
.17. When among strangers they
elude, inquiries respecting their peculiar language,
calling it gibberish. Don't know, of any per.
son that can write it, or of any ,written speci-

Of 1t.,•
18. Their habits and custnins in all places;
,alc peculiar. ~
‘,‘ 9. Those w.ho profcss,any leligion represent
it to he lloit of the.conntry in which they ititle
hnt their description of it seldom goes beyond le-
pefeing the brad's, prayer-; and only few of them
are capable of that. Intaances of their attending
any pli!ce for %worship ate very rare.'
20. They parry I.or nwst part ,by pledging
to
..each other, without any ceremony-. . few eit,
eeptions have occurred when money was plentiful.
16 ,2.1„ 111,y do nut teach tttcir children religion.
22:and 23. Not Qtle in a
,i4ousuod can iced.
"'24 4,40 Some go into lodgings in Lon-
don, Catniiridge,4o,4urinvt.he wit!ttc; hat it 34
meidated thre...rourtlis of them lire out of (lours

ill W.l as In sualiner."

itirt Z.

COURT OF .KINO►4b" 11.ENCII„ Jots' 11.
AsSIGNE4S.O, Wooiiq ATE v. 1'F:1-n.
This was an issue from Chaacery, to try the
validity of a certain agreement triatle betWceti the
bankrupt and the:defendant, the contractor for
building the new CuSt,oni-.house, .on the fith of
November, • 1813, The agreement had been en-
tered into under. the.folloWing circumstances
The defendant defendant had told timher to,thOons of the
bankrupt to the extent of about ClOOl., for which,
the bankrupt gave his acceptanets • to six bills. of
exchange at various dates. Belore of them
became due, he came to thC defendant awl told
him that he was .resolved never to liay one
of them, and that he would rather starve io
prison. De, however, exprested his regret, at
the situation in which, the defendant ,would
thus be placed, and said that he (Voodgate, the
bankrupt) had a leasehold interest for 90 years lit
two houses in.Euston-stinare; which 'were only in-,
cumbered by a mortgage to Sir II J...orace Paul, of '
Which one year's interest Was due; he theretbre
proposed that the defendant should give up the six
bills, and should take The two houses; subject to.
the ineirmbrance, instead. After some negocia
firm it was -so it.7,reetl, and a meeting took• place at
a lock-tip-house in Witch friars.road, :for olie pur-
pose of carrying the arrangement into effect.
There the agreement in question was- signed
by the parties, Woodgate rept esenting that the
ok:tend:lnt had never made, such a bargaill
lit
his life. Very shortly afterwards the defendant
sent limper 'persons to tal.e possession of the
botises assigned.to him, but they had not long ar-
t ved wizen they were followed by sheriff'S officers
with a writ hobo e facia posesAosieln, in • 'ctinse..!
qujence :of a judgment in ejectment obtained-by
Sir it Paid, 'the defendant was of course obliged
to relinquish the honses.i. and Woodgate having
committed ,an act of bankrupty by toilaiiiing two
moilths
.the..iiing's Bench prison, theilefendant
endeioOared to prove the bills exchange under
the con,thission. Ile was met, however, by the
agreement lie had cm:Titled on the Sth Nuvem..
• ber*lBl3 ;- and the matter being discussed before
the Lord Chancellor, an issue was directed to as-
certain whethet: 't hat agreement hail ',or had 'not
been- signed nuclei. fraudulent repreientations by
are. bankrupt..
The issue being
,upon the defendant, the AT-
rnitt4ey •GANERAL, Oa his behalf, Opened the case,
and 'calle'd! wit tiesses present at the signature /4
the instentnent, who proved that Woodgate had
represented that the bargain was an excellent ohe
fOr the defendant, and that the only ineumbrance
was that of Sir H. Pau!.
Mr.'SCARIATT; tor the' pidintifts, said' thet,tho
defendant had relied upon the latter part et thet
ti.
ansiict snit;' whereos, it he .hatt taken it iiF;
a little earlier, it would haVe appeared that the
defendant was aware 'of all the circumstances of
the case,. both with regard to the ejectment and
the jadgment under whiCh Sir H. Foul had taken
I'l
id
the houses. in I..uito.y
n.m,"re. Lid
vid...nce he ntl:hiced 'estutilkhefi this %torment,
under the direction :he C oicf Justice a very
diet W % tonnA tt,rtpe phOi
tit!Otiiteg v. iufsrptts.
The. pl,fintl'a' il;!diart.d ii indoriee rgAinSt
fepdoat ns acceptor f)f tt Tills at
,exchange for
471.•G5.. dated 9tb• of ,March, 1814, and }sayable
five niOntli sitter date, Alid aecepted by tee: tle
leiidant by the twine of Biggers. and Co.
I,e hand-writ lug i t tt e defendant• was proved
by 71' Mr Thonms liohnes Smith,- Clerk in the Se-
crecary of B.inkrtyW Oibce, Mr. 'betay, with
Meailmit had 1,u,l stme dealings, and
a brZker, who Gad tact year diStrained in the de-
(endarit'Ahouse.
• • on the part of the defetplant the defence set up
'woS, that the,, acceptance of the bill in question
was a forgery. lit 'support of this case several
Witnesses Were called; artion.:,,st whom were Sarah
wg-gas,:ehe defendant's- sitter; it young man,
nmaed Freemout, un Agcut at the Insolvent
Debtor's conit ; aarland,- a Clerk to Mr. Abra-
ham Isaacs, the Attorney for the- defendant,. and
Mr. liiiracs himself. The object of thiserwitnesses
evidence ryas to shot. that the acceptance in ques-
tion was .a forgery ;•but
Lord 14..tatipottouGa having Charged the Jury
upon the conflicting test iaoiiyon both sides, they
found a verdict fur the plaintiff.