Our vulgar prepossession in favor of the morals of former and rude ages, is very absurd, and ill-grounded.

The same author says, (chap.

10,) that there were computed to be ten thousand gypsies in England; a species of banditti introduced about the reign of Henry VIII.; and he adds, that there will be no way of extirpating them by the ordinary course of justice.

The queen must employ martial law against them.

That race has now almost totally disappeared in England, and even in Scotland, where there were some remains of them a few years ago.