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q . More than half their number follow no business : jothers are dealers in horses and asses : farriers , sniiths , tink ers , braziers , grinders of cutlery , basket-makers , chair-bottomers , and musicians . *
10 . Children are brought up in the habits of their parents , particularl y to music and dancing , and are of dissolute conduct . 11 . The women mostly carry baskets with trinkets and small wares ; and tell fortunes .
12 . Too ignorant to have acquired accounts of genealogy , and perhaps indisposed by the irregularity of their habits . 13 . In most counties there are particular situations to which they are partial . In Berkshire is a marsh , near Newbury , -much frequented by them ; and Dr . Clarke states , that in
Cambridgeshire , their principal rendezvous is near the western villages . 14 . It cannot be ascertained whether , from their first coming into the nation , attachment to particular places has prevailed .
15 , 16 , and 17 * When among strangers , they elude inquiries respecting their peculiar language , calling it gibberish . Don ' t know of any person that can write it , or of any written specimen of it . 18 . Their habits and customs in all
places are peculiar . 19- Those who profess any religion represent it to be that of the country in which they reside : but their description of it seldom goes beyond repeating the Lord ' s Prayer ; and only few of them are capable of that . Instances of their attending any place for worship are very rare .
20 . They marry for the most part ty pled ging to each other , without ;* ny ceremony . A few exceptions have occurred when money was i Pitiful . 21 . They do not teach their chil-<™ n reli g ion . 22 and 23 . Not one in a thousand ( * a read .
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1 *> Exeter , Aug . 7 , 1816 . HOPED to have had no further ^^ ion to engage the attention of Lf /* your readers , to the sub-• tC m J former paper , ( p . 264 ;) . a 8 t JKUr Correspondent ' s reply in the i lory ( ? ^ ° f vour estimable Reposi-- » p . 390 , ^ seerm to require my
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taking notice of some of his state * mentsj in doing which I shall endeavour to be as brief as the subject admits . To expose to the world the failings of a fellow-creature , must necessarily
prove a painful task to a benevolent mind ; but publicly to advance , or even insinuate , a charge of immorality against an individual unable to defend himself , without substantiating such allegation , appears to me a procedure < altogether unwarrantable . Your Cbrriespondent , however , seems ko me placddi in this awkward
predicament , by his unnecessary and unproved insinuation against the Count . The injurious reflection he threw out in his first paper , I am sorry to find reiterated by him , after what had been advanced by myself . Since what he regards as evidence is not produceable
in a work designed for general readers , why advert to so ungrateful a topic at all ? Christian charity , not to mention justice , would in my opinion have here dictated silence . But your Correspondent assigns the following reason for his insinuation to the prejudice of the Count . ( t I considered
it my duty , to guard the memories of such men as Watts and Ooddridge , from the imputation of an unqualified approbation of Count Zinzendorf . * A strange mode of acting this , to exalt
one character by depreciating another 1 But whoever regarded the Count with unqualified admiration ? That he was a great and good man I have no doubt , but he had his defects and
weaknesses - > and m persons of his ardent cast of mind they are always most prominent . In reference to the religious poems to which your Correspondent alludes , ( for they were not used as hymns , ) let me inform him that scarcely any had the Count for their author ; and ,
as already noticed , as soon as he perceived that they were open to misrepresentation , he checked their . further circulation . Yet even these poenis , objectionable : as their originat phraseology is , ^ eceh > e fer inore * $ o rin
Rimma ' a hands- i and , I , aifirni cannot be justly appreciated fron \ his-exhibition of thenx : -his illegitimate renderings , - and utter neglect of-the cojv iiexioT > - i / i which rfje passages ? quoted by him stajxd * necess&jr Uy preclude hia work from implicit ereait . Permit me , Sir , to add , that the only clue tp
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Rejoinder to Mr , Rutt oh Count Zinzendorf . 585
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 525, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/25/
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