get employment if possible. They have made some flower baskets for
me; and hoping they may obtain orders for more, I have recommended
them to my friends. I have heard of another family, consisting of
fourteen souls, who encamp on Bedminster Down, and there by God's
help, I intend to send a minister of Jesus, to try what can be done
for them. There is also another family expected, who have a house of
_their own_ at Bedminster, and who winter there. Should the Lord
bless our humble endeavours, we must have a regular Committee, and
set about our work in a workman-like manner; nothing short of a
Colony will satisfy me. I intend to introduce this interesting
subject at a party this evening, and hope the Lord will open the
hearts of his people, to do good to those poor benighted wanderers."

The author has also just received from a clergyman in Scotland, a most
interesting account of a colony of Gipsies in that country, where, I am
happy to observe, they do not seem so much hunted as in England. And as
the severity of their winters drive them into houses for three months,
during that season, there is offered a fair opportunity to both ministers
and kindly disposed Christians to do them good. The letter alluded to is
most gladly inserted with the view to encourage the Christian
denominations of England to imitate the benevolence, zeal, and industry
of their much respected brethren the Scotch.

"_Yetholm Hall_, _Dec._ 11_th_, 1830.

"My dear Sir,

"Through the report of the Society for ameliorating the condition of
that unfortunate race, the Gipsies, I am acquainted with your name,
and with your benevolent exertions in their behalf. As the minister
of a parish in which perhaps the largest colony of this people in
Scotland reside, and naturally, therefore, very much interested in
any plan that promises to improve their condition, I take the liberty
of writing you; not so much for the purpose of answering the numerous
queries subjoined to the report, as of requesting your advice and
opinion, with regard to what plan might be adopted for the
improvement of the colony, placed, in some degree, under my care and
superintendence. I have but lately been called to the ministerial
office, and appointed to the pastoral care of this parish; and
previous to the period of my appointment, I h