argnment. I have also shewn that astrology has the Father of lies for its author, and is opposed to the pure government of God and the sanctity of his word. Astrology leads man from God to trust in an arm of flesh, mocks him at the time when he most needs Divine help, sports with his feelings, alarms him with imaginary dangers, infuses into his mind vain conjectures respecting future contingencies paralyses his band for active exertion, deprives him of the precious truths of the Bible, robs him of the favour of heaven, and conducts him down to the chambers of eternal death.

If Lieutenant Morrison wishes himself as well as I wish him, I recommend to his serious consideration one passage of scripture in connection with what I have written."Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."-Proverbs xxvii. 6.

I now terminate my observations upon astrology, with a quotation from the eloquent prophet Isaiah— "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the ASTROLOGERS, the STARGAZERS, the MONTHLY PROGNOSTICATORS, stand up and save thee from these things which shall come upon thee. Behold they shall be as STUBBLE; the FIRE SHALL BURN THEM; they shall not deliver THEMSELVES from the POWER OF THE FLAME.”—Isa. xlvii. 13, 14.

Mr. Editor, the Lieutenant has taken his leave, and now I take mine, requesting you to accept my best thanks for the liberal space allotted me in the columns of your highly esteemed and respectable

REMARKS

ON THE REMAINING PART OF

LIEUTENANT MORRISON'S

SECOND

Astrologico-Theological Letter,

&c. &c.

IN resuming my notice of the productions of this disciple of the Chaldean sages, my thoughts have reverted to the period when Zadkiel* first became a suitor to Lady Luna. What was the cause that metamorphosed an officer of the royal navy into a consulting astrologer?-I have no distinct information on this point-Zadkiel himself has not given a hint upon the subject; no, not even in his own nativity in the Horoscope-however, the following conjectures may not be far from the truth: Charmed with the success

*Zadkiel is the name given by magicians and astrologer's to Jupiter's angel.

of Raphael, who was then a very popular author, and also scorning the limits which superstitious bigotry had prescribed to human investigation, and considering that groundless scruples had too long

Repressed his noble rage,

And froze the genial current of his soul,"

he determined to bound into futurity, regardless of the frowns of the clergy and the sneers of laughing philosophers, resolved to bear the "odium astrologium," not doubting that he should ultimately rival even the ancient astrologers of Babylon. Fame seemed to beckon him to her temple. The milkyway invited his foot-steps; and the solar walk had more attractions than the troubled waters of the ocean. The wild and imposing theories of departed mystics fascinated his mind; the golden prospects of perspective wealth riveted his attention; and certainly, there was more music in the ringing of a sovereign on the table, than in the whizzing of a cannon ball on the high seas. Zadkiel, of course, sets a figure to ascertain from the heavens themselves, the probabilities of success. His significator is found in good aspect, and the ninth house well inhabited; the testimonies of the second house were quite favourable to wealth; Jupiter and Venus being in perihelion, are swift in motion, and in good aspect