_Hamburgh_. _Unpartheiisch_. _Correspondent_. Nr. 159. 1782. “_Hungary_, 22d September.—Besides those Gipsey cannibals which were executed on the 22d of August, at Fraumark, there were fifteen of these barbarians put to death on the twenty-fourth at Kameza; and on the twenty-sixth, thirteen more at Esabrag. In the former place were seven women beheaded, five men hanged, two broken alive on the wheel, and one quartered alive. At the latter place seven women were beheaded, four men hanged and two broken on the wheel. Many still remain in confinement; among whom is one who acted as priest, and married people for two groschens a time. Their _harumpascha_, who, as we lately advised, was taken by a very simple stratagem, cannot yet be brought to any confession of his crimes.” _Frankfurter Staats Ristretto_, Nr. 207. 1782. “_Donau Strohm_, 24th December.—Not long ago it was published, that forty-five of the men-eaters had been executed in Hungary. One hundred and fifty still remain in prison, whose sentence has, by express orders from court, been respited. Her majesty, not thinking it possible that the people in confinement could have been guilty of such enormous crimes, sent a commissary thither from court to examine minutely into the affair. On his return it was confirmed that they were really men-eaters; and that there are actually among them sons who have killed and eaten their own fathers.” {29} About sixty years ago, ladies of the first quality in Petersburgh used to be guilty of somewhat the same kind of irregularity. They had begun to adopt the French modes in dress; but, as Salmon says, did not well know how to manage them. “Wherefore,” he continues, “one must not be surprised, notwithstanding all the state of a Petersburgh lady, to meet one of them in summer, at which season they use the English straw hats, magnificently dressed in damask, ornamented with gold, silver, lace, and ribbands, walking barefooted, carrying her slippers in her hand.” {51} The college of Mons was established in 1748, by the Empress Theresa. In the seventh article of the Instructions granted, the Gipseys were allowed the privilege of washing for gold. {87} It is reported in Hungary, that a Gipsey alphabet is somewhere preserved; but nobody ever has seen or ever will see it, for it probably never existed: as these people did not bring the art of writing from their own country; where they belong to a class of people who, by express laws, are prohibited from receiving any kind of instruction. {88} Poetry and Music are in equal esteem among the Transalpine Wallachians, who have consigned over these two amiable sisters to the licentiousness of slaves—Gipseys. These alone sing, play, rhyme—for we cannot allow the appellation of poems to obscene hobbling verses, put together at the moment. By way of sample take the following couplet: _Mitidika_, _Mitidika_, _wién üng quátsch_! _Ba nu_, _Ba nu_, _n’ am tsche fátsch_.