on in
no other_; till in his last days some Christian directed him to the
Bible, as a book that tells poor sinners the way to God. He gave a woman
a guinea to read its pages to him; and he remunerated another woman, who
read to him the book of Common Prayer. The last few years of his life
were marked by strong conviction of sin. His children thought he must
have been a murderer. They often saw him under the hedges at prayer. In
his last moments he received comfort through a pious minister, who
visited him in his tent, and made him acquainted with the promises of the
gospel.

A similar instance has been related by a clergyman known to the author;
nor should the interview of GEORGE THE THIRD with a poor Gipsy woman, be
forgotten; for a brighter example of condescending kindness is not
furnished in the history of kings. This gracious monarch became the
minister of instruction and comfort to a dying Gipsy, to whom he was
drawn by the cries of her children, and saw her expire cheered by the
view of that redemption he had set before her.

But how few are there of the tens of thousands of Gipsies, who have died
in Britain, that, whether living or dying, have been visited by the
minister or his people! The father of three orphan children lately taken
under the Care of the Southampton Committee for the improvement of the
Gipsies, had lived an atheist, but such he could not die. He had often
declared there was no God; but before his death, he called one of his
sons to him and said--_I have always said there was no God_, _but now I
know there is_; _I see him now_. He attempted to pray, but knew not how!
And many other Gipsies have been so afraid of God, that they dreaded to
be alone.

It is a fact not generally known, that the Gipsies of this country have
not much knowledge of one another's tribes, or clans, and are very
particular to keep to their own. Nor will those who style themselves
respectable, allow their children to marry into the more depraved clans.

The following are a few of the family names of the Gipsies of this
country:--Williams, Jones, Plunkett, Cooper, Glover, Carew (descendants
of the famous Bamfield Moore Carew), Loversedge, Mansfield, Martin,
Light, Lee, Barnett, Boswell, Carter, Buckland, Lovell, Corrie, Bosvill,
Eyres, Smalls, Draper, Fletcher, Taylor, Broadway, Baker, Smith, Buckly,
Blewett, Scamp, and Stanley. Of the last-named family there are more
than two hundred, most of whom are known