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FRONTISPIECE.

Publijnd as the Act direrts by WLocke Sept. 11791.

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CORRESPONDENTS, &c.

There is no Edition of Lavater's Effays on Phyfiognomy, fold for lefs than Five Guineas; none on fo elegant and large a fcale as that which accompanies this Work, under upwards of Twenty! And yet, in the courfe of Two Years, our Subfcribers may expect the Whole, in a manner, nearly Gratis.

The Sixth Houfe in Aftrology, from which we have exemplified in the prefent Number, was not chofen in preference to the others, only we found it neceflary, in order to illuft.ate the horary regency of the Plants: but as we intend to give a regular treatife of ASTROLOGY, we shall begin in the next Number, and go on, in a scientific manner, upon the Doctrine of Nativitie, according to the practice of the most approved Mafters of the Art. Alfo, we thall fucceffively give the Art of Palmiftry and Chiromancy, with which it is connected, illuftrated with the neceffary figures. Agreeable to the request of feveral Ladies, the Fditor will open, next month, a new and curious Paper, entitled, The Englb Fortune-Teller.

It is hoped no Gentleman will be fo uncandid as to advance any old queftion which has been anfwered before--fhould any fuch, by chance, come in, we will thank the difcoverers; for we do not, like the Roman pontiff, affect infallibility. All que ions fent to us, are required to have their folutions; but trivial Arithmetical Queftions cannot find a place in our Querist.

That this Collection fhould be as original as poffible, every care will be taken to exclude whatever is trite and common; but as the Sciences are not the work of an age, but the improvement of all, fome articles must neceffarily appear to the learned in a newly revived view; but fuch mutt be fenfible, that ufe: ul and infructive difcoveries may yet be made.

Mr. D.'s Tale of the Lady and Aftrologer, in our next.

The Paper figned Titus is too prolix; the niethods he recommends are too difficult to be put in practice.

The Tranflator of Guyot's Recreations Mathematique, shall be attended to in our next Number. And fo fhall Pyrotechnicus.

We think it neceffary to obferve, that, though we have not been able to give, in our first Number, a Specimen of all the Heads enumerated in our Propofals, they will, nevertheless, he comprehended in the courfe of the first Volume. Our principal aim is to comply with the wishes of the Public, generally expreffed, to have a pleafing variety.

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The Article "Ominous Im pulfes," is unavoidably delayed till our next-As is the account of Great Walkers, from ancient to the prefent time.

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ASTROLOGY.

HORARY REGENCY OF THE PLANTS.
GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR AS-
CERTAINING THE PLANETARY
INFLUENCE WHICH GOVERNS THE
VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS OF THE
EARTH, ACCORDING TO THE OPI-

obfervation, that, without deviating from probability and truth, and agreeable to the rules of art, we may affert Venus to be the regent of fuch a fruit; and hence, whenever it is directed as a medicine, the best time of gathering it, for application, with full efficacy, is, when she is lady of the hour, and more particu

NIONS OF THE MOST APPROVED larly when fhe is well located in either

AUTHORS IN THE CELESTIAL SCI-
ENCE OF ASTROLOGY.

IN order to discover what planet rules any particular plant, herb, fruit, or flower, we muft learn, from fome Herbal, the exact defcription of its nature and properties; what foil it delights in, and what variation it is fubject to from cultivation; and then, in fome treatise of aftrology, or according to the rules of the art, find which of the planets beft agrees with the complexion of its nature.

As for example; if you wish to know what planet rules the cherry -you find that this fruit is, by nature, of a moift, cooling, and juicy complexion, neither too hot nor too cold, and a very thriving fruit for this country; and, although they differ fomewhat in their tafte from one another, as they do in appearance, yet their general nature is the fame; and whatever variation there may be in their qualities, their general properties are alike.

Now Venus, upon examination, moft of all the feven planets, anfwers the properties incident to this enquiry, and we fhall find, according to the former

of her houses or exaltations, and not in any bad afpect with either of the malignant planets.

To illuftrate this matter farther by example, it will be neceffary to exhibit a Decumbiture, wherein the planetary influence and the utility of this knowledge is made obvious even to the most fimple capacity.

A gentleman was taken ill, Monday at noon, June 9th, 1777, of which the following figure reprefents the Schema. coeli ad temporum, or appearance of the heavens at that time, erected according to the rules of the science of aftrology, and agreeable to the practice of the first proficients.

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Let Mercury reprefent the person taken ill; now in a with of the eighth house, fignifies that the patient hath a fevere illness: the 8 in the 4 houfe corroborates the fame, and feems to tell us, that fatal confequences must attend the period of this malady. Yet applying to a d of the 8 and 24, (and he being the lord of the 7th, who reprefents the phyfician) and 24 in *, with the cufp afcending, all fignify, most certainly, that the afflicted per

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EXPLANATION OF A DECUMBITURE.

When any perfon is taken ill, immediately erect a figure of the heavens at that inftant of time; and exactly obferve the particular fituations of the moon, and the lord of the afcendant, as reprefentatives of the difeafed perfon; the lord of the VIth houfe to fignify the disease, and the nature thereof; the lord of the VIIth houfe for the phyfician, and fuch herbs as are governed by this planet, are the herbs that must be adminiftered in the planetary hour, for in these circumstances they have a two-fold efficacy.

Always let the planet that governs the herb be angular, and the ftronger the better, if they can; in herbs of Saturn, let Saturn be in the afcendant, and in the herbs of Mars, let Mars be in the mid-heaven, for in thofe houses they delight; let the moon apply to them by good afpect, and let her not be in the houfes of her enemies; you cannot well stay till fhe apply to them, let her apply to a planet of the fame triplicity; and if you cannot wait that. time neither, let her be with a fixed ftar of their nature.

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