The only remarkable positions which we shall notice in this illustrious geniture, are, first, the almost perfect of the and , which subjected the native to those frequent attempts on his life, which the of the and , and the of

and frustrated; next, the singular position of in , and in the same sign, angular, in the house of honor; and lastly, the configurations of four planets in , the sign remarkable for producing insanity, when thus afflicted. These alone are sufficient to stamp the mark of truth on the Astral science.

By progressive direction, on the 25th of August 1738, four boars before noon, which answers to eighty-one years, eight months of the native's life; being eighty-one days twenty hours after birth (allowing a day for each year).

The planets were thus posited:

In which the hyleg is in to his own place, in sesqui-quadrate to the radical place of , and in to the place of by direction. The is in with , and to the by direction, and in semiquartile to the radical place of , and approaching the radical place of the . - is in to by direction, and in to the place of in the radix, with not a single benefit fay to arrest the fatal congress.

In the periodical directions, the aphetical and anaretical planets were posited as under, viz.

It is certainly remarkable that in both (the progressive and the periodical direction) the should be posited in , but in the latter her position is more carious and striking, since she applies to (within a fortnight's motion of) the 's body, while the is in perfect to . Bat the most powerful ray of the whole, is the planet in 170 , lately separated from the of the ; and if we suppose the Dative (which was we believe the case) to have been first seized with his last fatal illness four months previous to his death, the of the and would be perfect by 's aspect; and the would at the same time have been also by his aspect in exact to the same anaretical star.