With a view to ascertain more fully the extent in which this may be necessary, the friends of humanity, to whom this Circular may be addressed, are requested to co-operate with others of their friends in different parts of each county, for procuring answers from the best informed of the Gypsies, and others, to the subsequent questions. And should there be any person in their neighbourhood, who after being brought up among the Gypsies, hath quitted them for a more settled course of life, information from such is particularly desirable. Answers are requested in the course of the summer: to be sent to John Hoyland, Springfield, Sheffield. * * * * * QUESTIONS. 1. From whence is it said the Gypsies first came? 2. How many is it supposed there are in England? 3. What is your circuit in summer? 4. How many Gypsey families are supposed to be in it? 5. What are the names of them? 6. Have they any meetings with those of other circuits? 7. And for what purpose? 8. What number of Gypsies are there computed to be in the county? 9. What proportion of their number follow business, and what kind? 10. What do they bring their children up to? 11. What do the women employ themselves in? 12. From how many generations can they trace their descent? 13. Have they kept to one part of the country, or removed to distant parts? 14. How long have they lived in this part? 15. Have they any speech of their own, different to that used by other people? 16. What do they call it? Can any one write it? 17. Is there any writing of it to be seen any where? 18. Have they any rules of conduct which are general to their community? 19. What religion do they mostly profess? 20. Do they marry, and in what manner? 21. How do they teach their children religion? 22. Do any of them learn to read? 23. Who teaches them? 24. Have they any houses to go to in winter? 25. What proportion of them, is it supposed, live out of doors in winter, as in summer? 5_th_ _Month_, 16_th_, 1815. THE REPORTS _Received from the Counties of England_, _are comprised in the following general Answers to the Queries of the Circular_. 1. All Gypsies suppose the first of them came from Egypt. 2. They cannot form any idea of the number in England. 3. The Gypsies of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, parts of Buckinghamshire, Cambridge, and Huntingdonshire, are continually making revolutions within the range of those counties. 4. They are either ignorant of the number of Gypsies in the counties through which they travel, or unwilling to disclose their knowledge. 5. The most common names are Smith, Cooper, Draper, Taylor, Bosswel, Lee, Lovell, Loversedge, Allen, Mansfield, Glover, Williams, Carew, Martin, Stanley, Buckley, Plunkett, Corrie.