It is to be observed that though the intelligence of the count proved false, with respect to the persons concerned, which very probably was the effects of his own suspicions, yet his information was right enough in the main; for a conspiracy was actually carrying on, to place the city of Remini into the hands of the pope: and it was accordingly seized by the Duc-de-Valenttnois, not long after; but in the confusion which this occasioned, Pandolfo made his escape. He fled for some time from place to place, vigorously pursued by his enemies, and meeting (as is generally the case of tyrants) with very few friends; at length, having endeavoured to sow dissension among his own children, he was abandoned by them, and every one else; inasmuch, that falling ill of a languishing disease at Bologna, where nobody cared to take him in, he was at last carried to the hospital, where he dragged out the remainder of his days in penury and pain, and at last died there, as the Astrologer had foretold.

At the birth of Louis XIV. the king of France, the gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions, caused a splendid medal to be struck to commemorate the event. Around this medal was placed the twelve signs of the zodiac, forming the twelve houses of heaven. The planets were placed in the same degrees as they then occupied in the heavens. The following was given as the interpretation of the celestial theme. " The sun, who gives perfection to the other planets, is in the mid-heaven; Mars, lord of the ascendant, in reception with Jupiter, the protector of life; Saturn, the enemy of nature, is in his dignities, which makes him less malevolent. The moon is in conjunction with Venus; and Mercury, in his house of predilection to the sun, but out of combustion, giving a superiority of genius in the most difficult enterprises; which his being in square to Mars, is not able to abate". Such was the interpretation of this monarch's horoscope, which was figured in the midst of this medal, by a rising sun. The. king was placed in the chariot of this glorious planet, of which Ovid has given us a de-scription. This chariot was drawn by four horses, guided by victory.

The inscription, was in these words: "Ortus Solis Gallici". "The rising of the Gallic Sun", and the exergue thereof, contained this other inscription. " Septembris Quinto Minutis 38 Ante Meridian, 1638". This curious medal exhibits a remarkable instance of the high reputation in which Astrology was held at the period of its formation. Neither were the predictions of the Astrologers, relative to the celebrity of the future "Grand Monarque" unfulfilled, as history is sufficient to prove.

In the reign of the,Stuarts, we have many striking accounts of remarkable predictions and celebrated Astrologers; but the chief amongst, these (and indeed in the History of England) was the renowned Astrologer WiliamLilly; amongst a series of Astrological Hieroglyphics, relative to the fate of the English nation, and to last for several centuries; Published by him in 1651, were two immediately succeeding each other; the first of which represented several dead bodies in winding, sheets, a church-yard with sextons,employed, and cart-loads of dead emptying into the graves. The second was a view of London Bridge, on both sides the water, and the city of London in flames. Nothing could have more unequivocally predicted, the Plague and dreadful fire, (which really succeeded each, other, as did these hieroglyphics) than the above forewarnings. After the fire, and when Lilly had for some time retired from; business, and lived at Richmond, the House of Commons sent him an order to attend at their bar; when appearing, the speaker informed him, that " as he had fifteen years before predicted the Plague and dreadful fire, the House wished to ask. him, if he could give any intelligence concerning the causes or. authors thereof?1'. Lilly answered, "that the House might readily believe, that having predicted it, he had spared no pains to investigate the cause, but that all his endeavours had been ineffectual: from whence he was led to attribute the confla-, gration, to the immediate finger of God". It is singular, that; of this beautiful object, the cause of these appearances are perhaps not so much thought of as they would be, were they less frequent.

The moon is an opaque spherical body, which appears luminous, only in consequence of reflecting the light of the sun, and consequently can only have that side illuminated which is turned towards the sun, the other side remaining in darkness; therefore it is evident that we must perceive different portions of her illuminated, according to her various positions, with respect to the earth and sun.

At the time of conjunction, or when she is between the earth and the sun, or the new moon, she is then invisible to the earth, because her enlightened side is then turned towards the sun, and her dark side towards the earth. In a short time after the conjunction, she appears like a fine crescent, soon after the sun sets, which crescent begins to fill up, and the illuminated part to increase, as she advances in her orbit; and when she has performed a fourth part of her revolution, she appears to be half-illumined, being then in her first quarter. After describing the second quadrant of her orbit, she is then opposite to the Sun, and shines with a round illuminated disc, which is called the full moon. After the full, she begins to decrease gradually, as she moves through the other half of her orbit; and when the eastern half of her only is enlightened, she is said to be in her third quarter; thence she continues to decrease, until she again disappears at the conjunction, as before. These various phases plainly 6how that the moon does not shine by any light of her own; for if she did, being globular, she would always present a fully illuminated disc, like the sun.

That the moon is an opaque body is proved by her occultation of the stars; for her body often comes between the earth and a star, and while she is passing it, the star is lost to view.