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the dial in order to set the chronometer to equal or true time, for each fifth day of the month :

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The Sun will enter the sign Leo on the 23d of July, at 57m. after 1 o'clock at noon.

The Moon will be at the full on the 2d day, at 34m. after 4 in the afternoon; it enters its last quarter on the 10th, at 54m. past 2 in the afternoon. The new Moon or change occurs at 26m. past 6 in the morning of the 17th, and it enters its first quarter at 3m. past 4 in the morning of the 24th.

The time of the Moon's rising for the first five days after it is full is as follows, viz.

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There will be a solar eclipse on the 17th, at the time of new Moon or change, but it will be invisible in these parts.

On the 8th, Venus will eclipse the star marked ɛ 8, the star being 20m. south of the planet's centre; and on the 16th it will eclipse the star 18, this star being 43′ north of the planet's centre. On the 30th the same planet will eclipse ; and on the 31st ; and in both cases the stars will be 22m. north of the planet's centre. Mercury is stationary on the 27th, and its greatest clonga

tion will be on the 12th. Saturn will be in opposition to the Sun at half past 10 o'clock on the 20th. There will be no visible eclipse of any of Jupiter's satellites this month.

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SIR,

To the Editor of the Monthly Correspondent.

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THE enclosed is the nativity of a gentleman who has contributed much to the advancement and improvement of astrology, and whose predictions amongst the circle of his friends and acquaintances have tended to shed lustre on the heavenly science; and his indefatigable exertions and study to separate truth from fiction, and prune the art of its unnatural and extraneous shoots which have issued from theory without the aid of practice, and the expence and pains he was at to try the merits of every author on the subject, have contributed more than a little to the revival of astral knowledge, and the general diffusion of its truths, and the progress it has made within the last 26 or 27 years: for my own part, I owe much to his friendly disposition, and the assistance he afforded me in my early initiation in the science so many years back, and as many hours and days we have spent together investigating its real principles, I conceive myself qualified to give his opinion on many points. Subjects of dispute, and the general deference paid to his opinion by all who were acquainted with him and the science may induce some who follow the beaten track to pause and examine closely for themselves, to discover their true course, and rectify misguided errors. With this view I have sent you the nativity of Mr. John Lambert, who wrote a variety of articles in the Astrologer's Magazine, under the signature of H. D. High-Holborn published in 1792, and 1793, amongst which may b found the nativities of the infant-twins of Mr. M. Sibly No. 35, Goswell-street, whose death he predicted in tl most unequivocal and positive manner within a year fro their birth, and which happened a few months aft the publication: but to enumerate his true predictio it would be endless.

He was born at Lewes, in Sussex, at the time mentioned in the figure, except that the estimate time as set down by his father was eight minutes later, or a quarter past three o'clock: but I have given the figure as from his own hand, rectified by himself, when he believed the Placidian measure of time to be correct; and this measure he persisted in for several years as a strict disciple of Partridge, whose works and opinions he much admired: however he afterwards abandoned the Placidian measure of time, and adopted that of Valentine Naibod, which will better correspond with the estimate time of birth, compared with the events of his life and time of his death. He was chiefly induced to change his opinion in respect to the measure of time by some arguments and demonstration from Mr. John Harris, a gentleman who also wrote occasionally for the Astrologer's Magazine, and possessed a profound knowledge of the science which he had learnt when a boy from his father; and I must say, from frequent conversation and discussing the merits of different opinions when we met, both myself and my friend Mr. Lambert were in a great measure weaned from some mistaken notions, founded by Placidus, and adopted by Partridge, as orthodox; though I will allow that Placidus deserves immortal fame, and our utmost gratitude for establishing the reason and mode of directing in mundo, and for bringing into notice the new aspects invented by Kepler, such as the semiquartile, quintile, sesquiquadrate, and biquintile, which have unquestionably considerable power, more than any person accustomed only to observe the old aspects, would readily allow.

Having thus far digressed in speaking of Mr. Lambert's latter opinion respecting the true measure of time, I shall add that, agrecable to Ptolemy, he differed with

Placidus in directing the Moon to aspects in the Zodiac, falling in her own path of latitude, for Ptolemy's express meaning, in book i. cap. 27. is, that only the bodies of the planets can be directed with their latitude, as all the rays are carried to the centre of the earth (that is to the ecliptic or path of the earth) though it is reasonable to suppose that the opposition has the contrary latitude of the planet casting the ray, and so becomes a mundane and zodiacal aspect at once; and I am aware that many later authors allow the sextile to have half the same latitude as the planet casting the aspect, and the trine half the contrary latitude, and the quartile to fall exactly in the ecliptic, and the reasoning certainly carries some degree of weight with it. And in respect to the method of computing the place of the part of fortune, Mr. Lambert agreed with Mr. Harris and myself, that it is entirely a mundane point, and only an harmonious proportional distance between the Sun, Moon, and eastern horizon, measured entirely by the diurnal and nocturnal arcs; so that if the Moon were the space of one house or thirty mundane degrees before the Sun, the part of fortune would fall consequently 30 mundane degrees before the ascendant, and if the Moon should be the space of two hours or 60 mundane degrees in advance of the Sun, the part of fortune would fall on the cusp of the third house, and so in proportion for any number of degrees*; and it being entirely a

* To illustrate this subject which is so differently understood by different authors, though they all pretend to follow Ptolemy, we will suppose the Sun on the cusp of the ascendant, and the Moon, taking her latitude into the account, on the cusp of the second house: now as the Moon is the part of fortune, or they are both one point at sun-rise, it is evident in this case that the polar elevation of the second house would also be the pole of the Moon, forming the oblique circle, in which she would be rising, and may very properly be termed what Ptolemy calls it, a lunar horoscope; and if the Moon should be in the same proportional distance from the Sun in any part of the figure, the place of the part of fortune would keep the same munA a

NO. VII.

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