Increach.

Submit, Commist.

I cannot find joy, delight, eternity, innocent, ever, everlasting,
endless, hereafter, and similar words, and, on inquiry, I find that many
of the Gipsies do not believe in an eternity, future punishment, or
rewards; this belief, no doubt, has its effects upon their morals in this
life.

The opinion respecting the Gipsy language at the commencement of the
present century was, that it was composed only of cant terms, or of what
has been called the slang of beggars; much of this probably was promoted
and strengthened by the dictionary contained in a pamphlet, entitled,
"The Life and Adventures of Bamfylde Moore Carew." It consists for the
most part of English words trumped up apparently not so much for the
purpose of concealment as a burlesque. Even if used by this people at
all, the introduction of this cant and slang as the genuine language of
the community of Gipsies is a gross imposition on the public.

Rees, in his Encyclopaedia, 1819, describes the Gipsies as "impostors and
jugglers forming a kind of commonwealth among themselves, who disguise
themselves in uncouth habits, smearing their faces and bodies, and
framing to themselves a canting language, wander up and down, and under
pretence of telling fortunes, curing diseases, &c., abuse the common
people, trick them of their money, and steal all that they come at."

Mr. Borrow, speaking of the Hungarian Gipsies in his "Zyncali," page 7,
says:--"Hungary, though a country not a tenth part so extensive as the
huge colossus of the Russian empire, whose Czar reigns over a hundred
lands, contains perhaps as many Gipsies, it not being uncommon to find
whole villages inhabited by this race. They likewise abound in the
suburbs of the towns.

"In Hungary the feudal system still exists in all its pristine barbarity.
In no country does the hard hand of oppression bear so heavy upon the
lower classes--not even in Russia. The peasants of Russia are serfs, it
is true, but their condition is enviable compared with that of the same
class in the other country; they have certain rights and privileges, and
are, upon the whole, happy and contented, at least, there, whilst the
Hungarians are ground to powder. Two classes are free in Hungary to do
almost what they please--the nobility and the Gipsies (the former are
above the law, the latter below it). A toll is wrung from the hands of
the hard working labourers, that most mer