Excerpt from The Gipsies Advocate: Or Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits, of the English Gipsies His object however was to furnish a work which should be concise and cheap, that he might be the means of exciting among his countrymen an energetic benevolence towards this despised people for it cannot be denied that many thousands of them have never given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.