MOSCOW. 
army to join Lord Hutchinson. The seapoys 
had many of their women with them, who were 
exactly like our gipsies. In regulating their 
dress, they lavish all their finery upon their 
head. Their costume in Russia is very different 
from that of the natives ; they wear enormous 
caps, covered with ribbons, and decorated in 
front with a prodigious quantity of silver coins ; 
these form a matted mail-work over their fore- 
heads. They also wear the same coins as 
necklaces, and a smaller kind as pendants to 
their ears. The Russians hold them in great 
contempt, never speaking of them without 
abuse; and feel themselves contaminated by 
their touch, unless it be to have their fortune 
told. They believe gipsies not only have the 
wish, but the power, to cheat every one they 
see, and therefore generally avoid them. For- 
merly they were more dispersed over Russia, 
and paid no tribute ; but now they are collected, 
and all belong to one nobleman, to whom they 
pay a certain tribute, and rank among the 
number of his slaves. They accompany their 
dances with singing, and loud clapping of the 
hands ; breaking forth, at intervals, with shrieks 
and short expressive cries, adapted to the sud- 
den movements, gestures, and turns of the dance. 
The male dancers hold in one hand a hand- 
kerchief, which they wave about, and manage 
