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principles; and the watery (rigon, Cancer, 

 Scorpio, and Pisces, the cold, prolific, cautious, 

 and severe qualities.&quot; &quot; Sagittarius, the house 

 of Jupiter, is the only sign under which no per 

 sons are born having black or dark hair, eyes, 

 and eye-brows.&quot; &quot; I have always uniformly 

 found,&quot; says the author, &quot;those born under Sa 

 gittarius, to be very fair, with gray eves, and, in 

 general, of a lively, forgiving-hearted, and free 

 dispositions.&quot; Again, &quot; Five minutes differ 

 ence of the time of their birth, renders the mem 

 bers of the same family red-haired, or black-hatr 

 ed, blue-eyed or black-eyed, sordid or generous. 

 fl Saturn, at any period of life, passing through 

 the ascendant, which he does every thirty years, 

 causes dulness or melancholy, for a few weeks, 

 to the native, and when Jupiter passes over it, 

 the party feels cheerful and healthy ; and should 

 a party of antiquarians, hundreds of years after a 

 person s death, discover his grave, there must be 

 some planet or the sun in conjunction, or some 

 other aspect with- his ascendant.&quot; &quot; Jupiter in 

 the third house gives safe inland journeys , and 

 agreeable neighbours or kindred. The moon in 

 this house will give constant trudging from one 

 place to another, and is often so posited in the 

 nativities of postmen and travellers. Jupiter in 

 the fourth, with Venus, gives fixed or landed pro 

 perty, and a house ornamented with matters of 

 taste, or of the fine arts. Jupiter in the fifth, 

 gives a family of good or clever children, and much 

 pleasure in life and its amusements. In the 

 sixth, he signifies good servants and assistants, 

 good health, and that the native will be fortunate 

 in small cattle and animals. Jupiter in the se 

 venth, signifies a good wife or husband, and 

 agreeable dealings with mankind in making good 

 bargains,&quot; &c. &quot; Children born under Mars have 

 well formed chins, under Aquarius, are fair arid 

 amiable, under Scorpio, are dark wir.h aijuiline 

 noses, and greenish or gray eyes.&quot; &quot; Lord Byron, 

 who was born under Scorpio, received enough of 

 the reflected Taurus principle to prevent his 

 nose from being aquiline, and to give to his cha 

 racter a degree of perverseness or eccentricity.&quot; 

 &quot;Persons born under Aries, with Jupiter in the 

 first house, are likely to succeed and be appreci 

 ated in England : If he be posited in Taurus, the 

 native is likely to succeed well in Ireland ; if in 

 Gemini, in London, of which this sign is the sig- 

 nificator. Jupiter in Cancer will give him suc 

 cess in Scotland or Holland, or concerns connect 

 ed with the water, unless Jupiter should be af 

 flicted by any malevolent planet, or be in combus 

 tion by being too near the sun.&quot; 



By this time the reader will be sufficiently 

 satiated with the sage doctrines of Mr. John 

 Varley, in relation to &quot; Zodiacal Physiognomy&quot; 

 and the Phrenology of the heavens. If he has 

 a desire to pick up any more of such precious 

 fragments of wisdom, he will be abundantly gra 

 tified in perusing the work itself, where, among 



other unique and precious relics, he will be pre 

 sented with an engraving of the Ghost of a Flea. 

 together with an account of the manner in which 

 it appeared to Mr. Blake the artist, who drew it, 

 and of its astrological correspondency arid sig 

 nification. That such absurdities should be 

 published by the first bookselling establishment 

 in London, in the twenty-eighth year of the 

 nineteenth century, and be purchased by hun 

 dreds, perhaps by thousands, is a proof, that 

 strong efforts are still requisite to extirpate the 

 superstitions of astrology from the minds of many 

 of our countrymen. 



No. IV. Proofs of the belief which is still attach 

 ed to the doctrines of Astrology, and of the per 

 nicious effects it produces. P. ] 9, 



That the predictions of astrologers are still 

 believed by many of our countrymen in the mid 

 dling ranks of life, appears from the following re 

 cent occurrences. 



On the 2d September, 1829, Joseph Hyatt, a 

 journeyman printer, was summoned before Sir 

 Peter Laurie, at the Guildhall, London, charged 

 with assaulting his wife, Philips, on the preced 

 ing Saturday. In his defence, Hyatt declared, 

 that all their unhappiness proceeded from his 

 wife (a pretty young woman of eighteen years,) 

 continually haunting the fortune-tellers, and pay 

 ing attention to their predictions. He produced 

 a paper he had recently found, written by an as 

 trologer, to whom his wife had applied. After 

 laying down the position of the planets on the 

 third of June, at the moment she applied to him, 

 the astrologer proceeds, &quot; The querant must not 

 expect any thing to be very kind to her until late 

 in this year, say October next. This day will 

 not prove any thing kind or pleasant. The 28th 

 day of this month also will not be friendly. July 

 2d, mind your phunny, and take no journey, and 

 trust to no relative. The eighth day will not 

 be unkind I hope. Look to it. The thirteenth 

 day also promises you pleasure and also profit. 

 Attend it ; and avoid all dark sallow persons. 

 (Her husband nearly answered this description.) 

 From such your disappointments must come. 

 August 2, 6, 23, avoid them days may be qua 

 lified to give you vexation, avoid them. Sept. 

 1, 6, will be unkind, but pray avoid 15, 20. 

 October 4, avoid it, may be vexatious. The 20, 

 21, 27, 28, 29, 30, will be more kind, pray at 

 tend to them and make good use of them, they 

 will not be unkind.&quot; The husband said, this 

 fellow had predicted their separation for three 

 months ; what other things he had put in her 

 head he did not know, but he led a miserable 

 life with her. Morning Chronicle, Sept. 3d. 

 1829. 



On the same day as above stated, (Sept. 2 

 1829) Ann Wheeler, a servant girl, was brought 

 to the Mansion house, charged with having at 



