with D, give pride, boldness, imperioufnefs, power; authoritative to wife or miftreffes; but the 69 and 8 foften this laft.

The part of Fortune in, confirms the prognoftic of thievifh fervants, yet he is well ferved.

"He, that hath many Planets in reception, or beholding each other by a good afpect, cannot fail of having many friends." GADBURY.This rule applies; efpecially as they are from the 11th Houfe. In fhort, all the teftimonies which concur in placing him at the Treasury, alfo tell in making him friends. So, as he values the friendfhip of mankind, I would not advife him to quit the Treafury. In 1783 or 4, his afcendant came by direction to the King's, which established him in power at that period, and to his own 2d, which encreafed his goods and moveables. LILLY, &c.

"He, who hath Lord of the 7th, never marrieth till he is paft thirty

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Untwisting all the chains that tye
The hidden foul of Harmony.

day, Feb. 4th, 2.

N. B. I may at fome future time fpeak of Mr. PITT's Nativity as a pub lic æra.

THIS FULL Moon is confecrated to Divine vengeance. Lilly obferves, that if the Lord of the 10th be in the 12th, the figure being one that declares witchcraft, the affliction is from the hand of GOD. It is the fame when the Lord of the 12th, especially a Malefic, is in the 10th. Familiarity between the Lords of the 12th and 6th, or 8th, are indubitable figns of spiritual afflictions, particularly if afflict Lord of Afcendant from a convenient place of the figure; that is, from any parallel to the evil houfes and, in all cafes of fecret dealing, I take into judgment, on my own authority, the 4th houfe, of which, however, the books are not wholly filent; my judgment led me to this, and it is has never failed in experiment. Mars, Lord of 4th and 12th, is on the cufp of the 10th, in mutual, though cross reception, (which yet is beft for mifchief), with h placed in the 4th, and Lord of , wherein alfo 3 is ex

alted, and difpofitor of O with rẻ ception, and together with himfel f, of and 9, with which last also has a ftrong crofs reception, and feparates from a partile fquare, fhe being Lady of the 10th, and in mundane par allel with all the bad houses. ♂ and alfo rule two good houses, 11th and 5th; but as the motives which determine them to mischief, are so univerfal, this circumftance must be confid ered as fpreading the contagion among perfons and places, that fancy themfe lves very fecure. Next, 4, Lord of the Afcendant, on the cusp of the 11th, his Joy, is flourishing away with external honours; confident of his own goodnefs, of peace, and of his afcendancy ; but rotten at the heart, Hofea, v. 11, 12. that is, without one effential dignity, and where & has no less than eleven effential dignities with no particip ator, by either night or day: to this wret che 24 his open antagonist appplies by

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a completed in fixt figns; and I never faw E lanet lefs prepared to receive an enemy than . Had any dignities where: 24 is, they would parry the biow in for ne measure; had 24 any where is, they would foften the blow; but now it comes with fearlefs, with unmitig ated violence: and in that nativity, where 4 is now on the place of, and nut befriended by him at birth, he will receive fuch a firoke for his intrufion, that he will never recover.

The nature of the calamities will be wretched obftructions in the parts fig nified by m, and the neck and præcor dia; fuch as hooping-coughs, hoarfeneffes, heart-burnings, &c. and in the reins, thighs, breast, and knees. As

I have called it pre-eminently a DiVINE SCOURGE, I will fay what it is for: find the Afcendant, the Lord of it, 24 and to fignify CONJUGAL Love; and from 2 being out of all dignities, as I faid before, I must conclude that the judgment proceeds from a total inattention to, and averfion from, that ey-ftone of Society, CONJU GAL AFFECTION. "Whoremongers and aclulterers Goo will judge:" Venus, on the contrary, Lady of the 10th and 6th, alfo in a fign, where the reprefents Conjugal Love, is VERY STRONG. This marks the difference between the KING and People in this regard. The Pleiades in 6th, threaten fore-eyes and blindnefs; a fignifica. tion corroborated by 's view of both the luminaries, for he afpects D with a femi, and O with fefqui, applying, and is in , defcending into the 8th. Laftly, as 2 is placed when he reprefents the Royal Houfehold, whether spiritual or natural, I can. not fum up the contents of this figure fo well as by the four first verses of Hofea, V." Hear, ye Priefts, and hearken, ye House of Ifrael! and give ye ear, O Houfe of the King, for judgment is toward because you; ye have been a fnare on Mizpeh, and a net fpread upon Tabor. And the revolters are profound to make flaughter, though I am a rebuker of them all.

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know Ephraim, and Ifrael is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou committeft whoredom, and Israel is defiled. They will not frame their do ings to return unto their God; for the Spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD." John xiv. 17. Read the whole fifth Hofea, particularly 14th verfe"I am unto Ephraim as a LION, and as a young LION to the Houfe of Judah. I, I will tear, and go away; I will take away, and none shall refcue." 24 in a fixt fign fottifhly abides his fate; nay, accelerates it by retrogradation.

The only new thing I fee remarkable among mankind under this full Moon, befides those I have noticed, are forcible abductions and rapes, in which the actors feem very fecure; but return, and the refult helps the progress of LI

BERTY.

At the new Moon of the 22d, f tranfiting 's place at the full and following up his, while he goes from A to hand 8 H continue the effects already predicted. Women will be brawling among themfelves. The winds are very various, and fhifting under thefe influences; there will be fome heavy gales; but the proximity of 8 to , takes off thunder and lightning, which otherwife would affuredly happen.

There will be no more frost.The ▲ of and 24 by this time helps fomething; but it rather helps out of difficulties than prevents.

I find retrogade on the King of Pruffia's Sun; the fignificators of both Government and People much afflicted, and very weak in general; let him expect a blow from France, if not already ftruck; I affure him the French will not honour their King much at present. I, however, think highly of the King of Pruflia's character, and am certain, he is a fincere, and will be a dif tinguifhed friend to peace and reform. But, let no little petulance embroil him with France; and let him take care of the Emperor.

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The Cheft which opens at command.

THERE is a little figure of Mahomet within this cheft, in the body of which is a foring, made of brafs wire, twisted in a fpiral form.-By this means the little figure, though higher than the cheft, can, by the accommodation of the fpring, be contained within when it is fhut, as the fpring in the body closes and fhortens.-The cheft is placed on levers concealed on the table which communicate their motions by the affiftance of the confederate to the bolt of the lock, as foon as the ftaple is disengaged, the fpring in the body of the figure, finding no refiftance but the weight of the lid, forces it open.

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The Watch beat to pieces in a Mortar.

A Watch is borrowed from one of company, which being put intɔ a mortar, fhortly after another perfon is requested to beat it to pieces with a pestle-the guts are then fhewn to the company entirely bruifed; in a few minutes the watch is reitored entire to its owner, who acknowledges it to be his property.

It is eafy to devife, that the mortar must be placed near a concerted trap and that it must be covered with a napkin, to afford an opportunity to the confederate of fubftituting another watch unobserved by the company.

In order to fucceed in the illufion of this trick, you must take care to provide yourself with a fecond watch refembling fomewhat the first in its fize, cafe, &c. which will not be very difficult, as you may either be furnished with a watch by a perfon with whom the matter is preconcerted, or by addreffing yourself to fome one whose watch you have before obferved, and procured your VOL. I.

felf one like to it.-After having replaced all the pieces in the mortar, you muft cover them a fecond time with a napkin, and whilft you amufe the company with fome trick or ftory, you afford time to your confederate to take the bruifed pieces, and replace the first watch in the mortar.

Tea Caddies.

TWO cards being drawn by different perfons, are put into feparate tea caddies and locked up.-The performer changes the cards without touching them, or any confederacy.

The caddies are made with a copper flap, which has a hinge at the bottom, and opens against the front, where it catches under the bolt of the lock, fo as when the lid is shut and locked, the flap will fall down upon the bottom; the per former places two cards that he intends to be chofen between the flap and the front, which, being lined with green cloth, may be handled without any fufpicion; he then defires the first perfon to put his card into one of the caddies, taking care it be that which contains the contrary card from the one that he chofe, and the fecond into the other; he then defires they will lock them up, which unlocks the flaps, covers their cards, and when opened, prefents the contrary ones to the view of the company.

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The well is made to take off in the middle, in the lower part of which are four cells to contain the different feeds, which must be filled before the trick is performed, and closed by four valves fimilar to the keys of a German flure; towards the bottom the well is made narrower fo as juft to fit the bucket, which being let down the performer demands what colour the company chooses to be drawn up firft, and by touching the lever the feed required will

fall into the bucket.

bability of taking B next will be as 8 to 1, or; we shall then have 7 counters left, and the C undrawn; and the probability of taking C next will be as 7 to to 1, or; now collecting all thefe together, we have; the product of the lower number being 504, fo the probability is as 504 to 1. If all the counters be required to be drawn, then the expreffon becomes 587631321; all these numbers multiplied together produce 362,880, and are the number of different ways by which the faid 9 counters can be drawn from the heap by one at a time, and

DICE.

(Continued from Pages 114, 117.)

QUESTION 20.

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A perfon undertakes, in three cafts with a common die, to throw both an ace and a duce, without regard to which fhall happen to be firft thrown, required his probability of winning. Solution. The probability that he brings up an ace and a duce fucceffively is', that is 6, the probability that he miffes an ace and a duce fucceffively is, that is 38; now both thefe probabilities together are 336 I 20, that is 1080 36, to 20; multiply 20 by the number of different pairs in 3, which is 3, and the product is 60; and this multiplied again by the number of throws, viz. 3 make 180, fo the probability is as 1080

to 180, or as 6 to 1.

Any number of things given, as A, B, C, D, E, F, &c. to find the probability that in taking any numbet of them they thail be the A firft, A next, &c.

QUESTION 21.

Let there be a heap of 9 counters, marked A, B, C, &c. what is the probability that in taking three of them, they fhall be the A first, B next, and Claft?

Solution. The probability of taking A firil is as 9 to 1, or if this happens, there remains & counters, and the pro

against this event happening.

QUESTION 22.

Let there be the fame heap as before; what is the probability that in drawing three of them they fhall be the fame three firit, marked A, B, C, as before, but without any regard to which fhail be firit drawn?

Solution. Confider the number of

things to be drawn from the heap ; place them above the line beginning with

1, 2, &c. likewife confider the whole

number of things contained in the heap;

be gradually decreased by one to the begin with their number, which must fame number of places as are above the line, and place thefe below, which will form the expreflion for the probability } of the happening of the event; then the expreffion for this question will be 7; now multiplying, as before taught, we have, and feeing each of thefe numbers may be divided by 6, we reduce the expreffion to g4, or 84 to 1.

QUESTION 23.

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