As allegoricalty depictured by the descent of Mercury* (his ruling planet) from the etherial regions ; thus beautifully described by Milton.

" So spake the eternal Father, and fulfill'd All justice: nor delayed the winged saint After his charge received; but from among Thousand celestial ardors, where he stood Veil'd with his gorgeous wings, up springing light,

* Vide, the illustrated horoscope, fronting page 141.

Flew thro' the midst of Horizen : the angelic chears,

On each hand parting,to his speed gave way

Through all the empyreal road; till, at the gate

Of Heaven arriv'd, the gate self opened wide

On golden hinges turning, as by work

Divine the sovereign architect bad fram'd

Down thither prone in flight

He speeds, and through the vast etherial sky

Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing

Now on the Polar winds, then with quick fen

Winnows the buxom air: till, within soar

Of towering eagles, to all the fowls he seems

A Phoenix, gaz'd by all: at length,

He lights, and to his proper shape returns

A seraph wing'd; six wings he wore to shade

His lineaments divine: the pair that clad

Each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breast

With regal ornament: the middle pair

Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round

Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold,

And colours dipt in heaven; the third his feet

Shadow'd from either heel with feather'd mail,

Sky tinctur'd grain. Like Maia's son he stood,

And shook his plumes,that heavenly fragrance fill'd

The circuit wide. Straight knew him all the bands

Of angels under watch: and to his state,

And to his message high, in honor rise:

For on some message high they guest'd him bound".

Pandise Loss.

As we have already given our opinion of this illustrious and regal nativity " in the Astrologer of the nineteenth century", (to which we refer the reader) repetition ii superfluous, save to again remark, that the horoscope is replete with wonderful verifications of planetary influence. - And England cannot but prosper, while she is blessed with the mild and beneficent sway of this potent monarch.

Raphael.