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useless, and to my infinite sorrow he appeared to be swept away by fate, without the interposition of rational resources and laudable endeavours.

He was hectical, troubled with a violent and incessant cough, and with extremely profuse perspirations. His voice continued strong to the hour of his death. His ardent love of astrological subjects stimulated his mind, though under infinite suffering and constitutional debility, to energy and ambition, till enfeebled nature could no longer act in indulgence to his wishes.

Some days before his dissolution, some symptoms occasionally, but transiently, presented themselves of delirium; he died in complete possession of his senses. He had great merit, but he was a man of sorrow and misfortune.

"No further seek his merits to disclose,

"Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode,
"There they alike in trembling hope repose,
"The bosom of his father and his God."

GRAY.

Blood taken from the arm in the beginning would have been serviceable, and the following draughts: R Lactis amygdalarum zij.

Magnes, vitriolat 3i. m. f. haustus-sextâ quâque horâ sumendus.

Applicetur emp. cantharid. pectori.

And when fever and the inflammatory state of the chest are sufficiently subdued by the above plan, the following draughts might prove useful:

R Infus cascaril,

ros. rub. a 3j.

Tinct. scill. gtt xxxx m fiat haustus-sextâ quâque horâ sumendus.

Milk diet must be rigidly observed. No malt liquors, nor spirituous nor vinous. The feet must be kept warm;

cold must be avoided; in brief, the greatest care is re-: quisite and necessary, without which no medicine, no diet can avail any thing; but above all considerations, the earliest attention should be paid to the interruption of health, then possibly the power of medicine would triumph over Saturn and Mars.

Yet oft fate yields her formidable rod
To art celestial and the Delian God *.

(To be continued.)

APHORISMS BY PHILALETHES.

(Continued.)

POTEST qui sicens est, multos stellarum effectus avertere, quando naturam earum noverit ac se ipsum ante illorum eventum preparare.

Thus in English:

A proper knowledge of the stars, of their motions, their properties and natures, enables us, in many instances, to avert their effects by anticipating them.

This aphorism merits particular attention; it furnishes infinite consolation, dispels the clouds of fatalism. It however, at the same time, shews the utility and propriety of cultivating the science of prognostic astronomy, and elicits from every candid and generous enquirer after truth the glowing effusions of admiration and delight. Thus armed with powers to dispense the most important, the most inestimable benefits, either abounding with joys or pregnant with remedies against many impending or approaching evils, it is undoubtedly en

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* See No. I. p. 16. Monthly Correspondent.

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titled to a pre-eminent rank in the circle of the sciences. In this way it becomes our best guide through every scene, and if we rightly and rationally attend to its counsels we shall avoid error and delusion.

To the Editor of the Monthly Correspondent.

SIR,

HAVING been requested by a constant reader of your publication to give my opinion upon a child's nativity, April 26th, 1814, a quarter past eight at night, I have enclosed the celestial figure for the time, and as the testimonies of short life are clear and numerous, I can venture to predict positively and unequivocally that the child will not survive its infancy: my reasons are that both the luminaries are afflicted by the infortunes, as the Moon is only 3 degrees past the opposition of Saturn, and is descending to it by converse direction; and is just separating from the semiquartile of Mars and applying to the quartile of the Sun in the Zodiac, and the Sun is near the mundane and zodiacal quartile of Saturn, and not far from the semiquartile of Mars, and the Moon who is hileg or giver of life, is without the least support from either of the benefics; neither is the ascendant befriended by them, and though the Sun is within 6 degrees of the trine of Jupiter yet they are separating, and Jupiter is weak and afflicted by the quartile of Herschel, and Mars lord of the ascendant is on the cusp of the eighth house, therefore it would be needless to speak of the native's future fate as to marriage, prosperity, or general destiny, &c. as I am convinced the child cannot live long, and I shall be much surprised if it survives. the first year, and it will be in great danger the first two or three months.

May 20th, 1814.

18, Mead's Row, Westminster Road,

J. W.

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THE LIFE OF CHARLES JAMES FOX.

CHARLES James Fox was the third son of Henry the first Lord Holland, by Georgina, eldest daughter of the late Duke of Richmond, and was born January 13, O. S. 1748. As he was intended for public life, so he received a public education, and was sent to Eton, when that school had obtained a high degree of celebrity under the auspices of Edward Barnard, M. A. From Eton

Mr. Fox removed to Hertford College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself by his talents; and it is said during his residence at that place he read every play in the English language. Having finished his education at Oxford, he made the usual tour through Europe, and on his return to England, was, in 1768, returned for Midhurst in Sussex, although not of a legal age. He afterwards considered this borough as a nuisance in a free country. Mr. Fox now became the champion of ministers, voted against the Middlesex election, and the first speech he made in parliament was against Mr. Wilkes. On the 13th February, 1770, he became a member of the admiralty, but resigned that situation May 6th, 1772, and on the 9th of January, 1773, was nominated a commissioner of treasury, from whence he was suddenly dismissed. Mr. Fox now entered the lists of opposition, and throughout the whole of the American war proved a most powerful antagonist to the ministers of that period. On the downfall of Lord North he was appointed in 1782, one of the secretaries of state, which situation he resigned on the death of the Marquis of Buckingham; when the Earl of Shelburne, since created Marquis of Lansdown, was appointed to succeed him. On the downfall of that short-lived administration he formed a coalition with Lord North, and resumed his former office. He now brought in his India bill, which after having past the house of commons was unexpectedly thrown out by the house of lords, and occasioned the resignation of the ministry of which he formed a part. Mr. Pitt then came into power, while Mr. Fox placed himself at the head of the opposition, and a long contest took place between these illustrious rivals. Worn out and perhaps disgusted with public business, he, in 1788, repaired to the continent, in company with Mrs. Fox,

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