Pandolfo, his patron, would likewise have his horoscope calculated, which Tibertus would willingly have declined; but finding it impossible, he would net hazard the credit of his, art by telling a falsity; and therefore, although he was at that time the richest person in all Italy, Tibertus ventured to ac-quaint him, that after suffering great want, he would, die in the common hospital at Bologna.

Not long after this Guide was made commander-in-chief of the army of Pandolfo, the aforesaid prince, and patron of Tibertus upon which the count de Beulivoglio, who was father-in-law to that prince, wrote him a letter, in which he assured him.

"that he bad made a shepherd of a wolf", and that Guido "was actively intriguing with the pops, and had promised to deliver up the city of Remind, whenever he desired it". The tyrants of Italy were never men of much discernment, and therefore the prince Pandolfb, a* soon as he had this informal tion, made a great entertainment, to which he invited all his favourites, and among the rest Guido, and Tibertus the Astrologer. At this supper Guido was stabbed, (exactly as the former predicted) and as it was suspected that Tiberius, from his great intimacy with him, might have some share in the conspiracy, - He was thrown into a dungeon, and loaded with irons.

It may easily be imagined that Tibertns passed his time very unpleasantly in this dismal situation, and therefore it will not be deemed surprising, when it is stated, that he endeavoured to seize the first opportunity of escaping which offered. It seems the gaoler to whose care Tibertns was committed, bad a daughter of singularly mild and gentle manners, whom he at length persuaded to furnish him with the means of breaking ont of his dungeon into the castle ditcb, from whence he might easily escape.

In the interim, count Bentivoglio had discovered that the information he gave his relation was ill-founded; and of this he sent him an account, as soon as it was in his power; at which newsPandolfo was infinitely affected, and grieved at his late rash, and cruel measures.

It was however impossible to recall his unfortunate general Guido , from the grave; but he gave instant orders that Tibertns should be set at liberty. The persons who brought these orders, came just at the fall of night, and strange to say, precisely at the time that the Astrologer had forced his passage into the ditch, where, alter a slight search they found him.

When this was reported to the tyrant, his former Suspicions returned upon him with redoubled vigour; and recollecting at the same time, the prediction* of Tibertua, that he should be deprived of his patrimony before his death, he concluded that the first information could not be groundless: but that, without doubt, the Astrologer must be concerned in some such pernicious design. To free himself therefore from these apprehensions, he gave orders that the next' morning Tibertus should be beheaded, before the prison gate: and thus the second prediction was verified, in a manner equally strange, and out of the reach of human foresight to penetrate unassisted by the rules of art. Let us now proceed to the third prediction, which really took place not long after.

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-Valentinois, 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 description. 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 ex-, fatbits 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 WilliamLilly; 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 forewarning!.. 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?". 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; what this profound Astrologer was unable to discover, every one else has failed in, even the usual lights which the revolution of ages generally throw on subject! which, at the period of their transaction, may be enveloped in casual gloom, in this instance have totally failed to give any real information as to the actual perpetrators of the above calamity.