1797] 
He faid, that his paternal grandfather 
was born in Africa, and his grandmother 
an Indian native of America; that his 
father (the iffue of their marriage) mar- 
ried a mulatto woman, born of an Afri- 
can father, and an I[rifh mother; and 
that os maternal grandfather was a na- 
tive of Africa.—That about February, 
1792, he firft perceived a change in his 
finn about the roots of his Hae -natls, 
Which extended tothe length of the firft 
joints; that about two months after- 
wards, the back of his neck began to 
change, gradually extending downward, 
and round his body, to moft parts coVer- 
ed by his clothes ; that the alteration was 
greater in the fecond, than the firft year 5 5 
and that he has not perceived much, if 
any, progrefs in the winter, or cold wea- 
thers' “In the latter part of the fummer 
of 1796, it was fo rapid on bis face and 
hands, that feveral who revifited him, 
after an abfence of 12 or 14 days, difco- 
vered a very obvious alteration ; and they 
had no doubt, that if he fhould live over 
another fummer or twoy the - change 
‘Spee 
would be completed throughout. He 
remarked, that fince it began, he has 
been much more fenfibie of the heat of 
the fun on his flroulders, than formerly ; 
and that blifters and freckles have been 
raifed on every part which heles’in his 
clothes had expofed to its aétion; and 
alfo, that he has felt the cold much more 
fenfibly than before. 
Such is the hiftory, fo far.as it goes, 
of the change of a negro to a white man 
—a change, which, had Henry Mof 
happened to have been a flave, would 
have furnifhed an irrefragable argument 
for annihilating his owner's s claim. Now 
as, on the prefent prevailing fyftem of 
mora ae) a black colour fo clearly autho- 
rifes the extreme degradation of a confi- 
derable portion of the human race ;. and 
as the change from white to black mutt be 
ie as equally poffible with the re- 
verfe above ftated, 1t maybe well for 
the white flave dealers, and their fasr 
abettors, whether legiflators or others, 
to confider how far they may be per/ox- 
ally interefted in perpetuating fuch a 
criterion : as by it, they may ultimately 
be doomed to the wretchednefs, to which 
they are now devoting millions, unim- 
peached of any crime more atrocious 
than that of differing from themfelves 
in complexion, : 
DW; 
London, April +7, 1797. 
ONTHLY Mac. No. XVII. 
Mr. Houfeman’s Tour of England. Nottinghamfhirés 
365 
To the Editor of the Manibly Magazine. 
MR. EDITOR, 
NO phrafe is more frequent in. the 
mouths, as well as in the writings, 
of politicians, than the following : 
“6 Quem Deus vult ferdere farius ae ntat 3” 
yet | “could never find out with ahr 
it originated, notwithfanding I have 
taken fome ‘pains to make the difcovery. 
It has a very claffical found, yet the-ac- 
curate nt res Cee tee the word 
demento to be pure Latin, but degrades it 
inter ca quee funt carbone digna, and quotes 
Apuleius, as ufingit. Apuleius hved, I 
believe, in the third century, and wrote 
very elegant language for his time. Per- 
haps, indeed, he may have ufed the phrafe 
in queftion, but I have not his works at 
hand to refer to. If you favour this 
With a corner in your next Monthly Ma- 
gazine, | have no doubt but that fome of 
your learned correfpondents will take the 
trouble to fatisfy my curiofity. 
BE: 

TOUR OF ENGLAND, 
By Mr. Joun Houseman. 
(CONTINUED). 
A AY 16; proceeded from DERBY to 
‘* NorrinGHaM, 16 miles. The 
pleafanteit country I have hitherto feen ; 
furface level ; foil, for about fix miles, a 
loamy clay ; fand i is afterwards the pre- 
vailing ingredi ent; both, however, are 
very ertile, the former in w heat, beans, 
graffes, &c. and the latter in turnips, 
barley, &c. Farms feem rather exten- 
five than otherwife; buildings good, 
made of brick and files ; beautiful ftraighe 
hedge-rows of thern, moft of which have 
a modern appearance; trees of various 
defcriptions embellith am landfcape in 
every point of view; the roads are made 
with {mall gravel, and fome wholly of 
fand;, the parifhes feem of no great ex- 
tent; churches, ornamented with fpires, 
are feen at a confiderable diftance, when 
an opening, or a gentle eminence, affords 
the traveller an opportunity of widening 
lus profpect. 
Although the numberlefs rills obferv- 
able in fome of the northern counties, are 
mot perceived here, vet the country ig 
pretty well watered with feveral minor 
ftreams which fall mto the ae Mts. ge 
noble river direéts its courfe to its con- 
fluence with the Oufe, at no great dif- 
tance fram the road on the fouth. —On 
the left hand fide, near the road, I pafied 
the feat of that oallant t naval commander, 
Sir John Warren; the manfion, though 
3B fmall, 
