"Can mortal strength presume to soar so high! Can mortal sight so oft bedimm'd with tears Such glory bear! for Io, the shadows fly From nature's face i confusion disappears And order charms the eye, and harmony the car!"

Beattie.

Of Herschel.

Herschel, or (as some Astrologers term this planet) Uranus, having been so recently discovered, that no one living has seen more than one half his celestial revolution through the fields of space, it cannot be expected that a complete system of his Astrological effects could possibly be given; but from the author's own experience, aided by what other observations he could gather from men of skill and science in celestial philosophy, this planet is peculiarly unfortunate in his nature, and of course his influence, when brought into action by aspecting the various significators in a nativity, is replete with evil, also. He may be compared to the combined effects of Saturn and Mercury. He is in nature extremely frigid, cold, dry, and void of any cheering influence.

" Last, Herachel walks his frontier round

The boundary of Worlds; with his pale Moons

Faint glimmering through the darkness night has thrown,

Deep dyed and dead: o'er this chill globe forlorn

An endless desert, where extreme of cold

Eternal situ, (a in his native seat,

On wintry hills of never thawing ice;

Such Hersehel's earth !"-----------------

URANIA.

He was discovered on the 13th March 1781, by the late Dr. Herschel, (tinder singularly ominous positions, which will be noticed in the latter part of this work, where we treat of mundane Astrology). His effects are truly malefic; but what he does of evil, is always in a peculiarly strange, unaccountable, and totally unexpected manner: be causes the native born under his influence, to be of a very eccentric and original disposition. Those persons are generally unusually romantic, unsettled, addicted to change, and searchers after novelty. If the Moon or Mercury, and Herschel be well aspected, they are searchers after nature's secrets, excellent chymists, and usually profound in the more secret sciences. He gives the most extraordinary magnanimity and loftiness of mind, mixed with an uncontrollable and intense desire, for pursuits or discoveries out of the " track of custom".

In Marriage, if in the seventh house, or afflicting the Moon, he causes every thing but happiness, want of order and sociality in domestic concerns, listlessness and coldness between man and wife, discord from the most entire, strange, and unusual causes, death of relatives, etc. He is equally evil in love, and peculiarly inimical to the fair sex : his ev" Hyleg have also a tendency to materially lessen.

As yet there are no peculiar houses assigned reason to think (from several thousand observ sign Aquarius, is one wherein he much deli; fortunate in the airy trigon, Gemini, Libra, and unfortunate in fiery, earthy, or watery signs, from the long period of his revolution, to h thing like a system, as to the bodily confirmation of those he governs; but they may probably resemble those whom Saturn and Mercury are said to govern, if the student can judiciously combine the effects of each, which is difficult. When we consider how much this planet must have baffled the judgment of the ancient Astrologers; and when we reflect also, that there may be other planets equally powerful, beyond his orbit, as yet undiscovered, we cannot help remarking the extreme ignorance and folly of those persons, who require from the Astrologer what they expect from no one else, infallibility.

The anticipated existence,.and subsequent discovery of this planet, forms a singular instance on what correct principles the moderns have prosecuted their studies. Drs. Halley, Bradley, and others, had frequently observed that Saturn was disturbed in his motion by some force, which they concluded must originate beyond its orbit; as they could not account for it on the known principles of gravitation, they pursued the speculative theory, till at length the discovery of this hitherto unknown planet, crowned their labours with success, and has enabled us to enlarge our present solar system to nearly double its bounds. Herschel shines with a fine bluish white light,something between that of Venus and the Moon, and usually appears only as a star of the eighth magnitude.