A well known nobleman, who had resided many years in India, taking shelter under a tree during a storm in this country, near a camp of Gipsies, was astonished to hear them use several words he well knew were Hindostanee; and going up to them, he found them able to converse with him in that language. Not long ago, a Missionary from India, who was well acquainted with the language of Hindostan, was at the Author's house when a Gipsy was present; and, after a conversation which he had with her, he declared, that, her people must once have known the Hindostanee language _well_. Indeed Gipsies have often expressed surprise when words have been read to them out of the Hindostanee vocabulary. Lord Teignmouth once said to a young Gipsy woman in Hindostanee, _Tue burra tschur_, that is, _Thou a great thief_. She immediately replied; No--_I am not a thief_--_I live by fortune telling_. It can be no matter of surprise that this language, as spoken among this people, is generally corrupted, when we consider, that, for many centuries, they have known nothing of elementary science, and have been strangers to books and letters. Perhaps the secrecy necessary to effect many of their designs, has been the greatest means of preserving its scanty remains among them. But an attempt to prove that they are _not_ of Hindoo origin, because they do not speak the Hindostanee with perfect correctness, would be as absurd as to declare, that, our Gipsies are not natives of England, because they speak very incorrect English. The few words that follow, and which occurred in some conversations the Author had with the most intelligent of the Gipsies he has met, prove how incorrectly they speak _our_ language; and yet it would be worse than folly to attempt to prove that they are not natives of England. Expencival _for_ expensive. Cide _for_ decide. Device _for_ advice. Dixen _for_ dictionary. {18} Ealfully _for_ equally. Indistructed _for_ instructed. Gemmem _for_ gentleman. Dauntment _for_ daunted. Spiteliness _for_ spitefulness. Hawcus Paccus _for_ Habeas Corpus. Increach _for_ increase. Commist _for_ submit. Brand, in his observations on POPULAR ANTIQUITIES, is of opinion that the first Gipsies fled from Asia, when the cruel Timur Beg ravaged India, with a view to proselyte the heathen to the Mohammedan religion; at which time about 500,000 human beings were butchered by him. Some suppose, that, soon after this time, many who escaped the sword of this human fury, came into Europe through Egypt; and on this account were called, in English, GIPSIES.