hey speak very incorrect English. The few
words that follow, and which occurred in some conversations the Author
had with the most intelligent of the Gipsies he has met, prove how
incorrectly they speak _our_ language; and yet it would be worse than
folly to attempt to prove that they are not natives of England.

Expencival _for_ expensive.

Cide _for_ decide.

Device _for_ advice.

Dixen _for_ dictionary. {18}

Ealfully _for_ equally.

Indistructed _for_ instructed.

Gemmem _for_ gentleman.

Dauntment _for_ daunted.

Spiteliness _for_ spitefulness.

Hawcus Paccus _for_ Habeas Corpus.

Increach _for_ increase.

Commist _for_ submit.

Brand, in his observations on POPULAR ANTIQUITIES, is of opinion that the
first Gipsies fled from Asia, when the cruel Timur Beg ravaged India,
with a view to proselyte the heathen to the Mohammedan religion; at which
time about 500,000 human beings were butchered by him. Some suppose,
that, soon after this time, many who escaped the sword of this human
fury, came into Europe through Egypt; and on this account were called, in
English, GIPSIES.

Although there is not the least reason whatever to suppose the Gipsies to
have had an Egyptian origin, and although, as we have asserted in a
former page, they are strangers in that land of wonders to the present
day; yet it appears possible to me, that Egypt may have had something to
do with their present appellation. And allowing that the supposition is
well founded, which ascribes to them a passage through Egypt into
European nations, it is very likely they found their way to that place
under the following circumstances.

In the years 1408 and 1409, Timur Beg ravaged India, to make, as has
already been observed, proselytes to the Mohammedan delusion, when he put
hundreds of thousands of its inhabitants to the sword. It is very
rational to suppose, that numbers of those who had the happiness not to
be overtaken by an army so dreadful, on account of the cruelties it
perpetrated, should save their lives by flying from their native land, to
become wandering strangers in another. Now if we assert that the Gipsies
were of the Suder cast of Asiatic Indians, and that they found their way
from Hindostan into other and remote countries when Timur Beg spread
around him terrors so dreadful, it is natural to ask, why did not some of
the other casts of India accompany them? This objection has no weight at
all when we consider the hatr