OR,

THE

PERILS OF ASTROLOGY,

A NOVEL,

IN THREE VOLUMES.

Heaven made us agents free to good or ill,
And forced it not that he foresaw the will:
Freedom was first bestow'd on human race,
And Prescience, only held the second place.

DRYDEN.

VOL. III.

London:

JAMES HALDANE, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD.

MDCCCXXIV:

SIR ANDREW SAGITTARIUS.

VOL. III.

A

SIR ANDREW SAGITTARIUS.

CHAPTER I.

How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees?

Thou know'st we work by art, and not by witchcraft;
And wit depends on dilatory time.

OTHELLO.

LEAVING Julia to the unpleasant contemplation of the foolish act her volatility and want of judgment had occasioned her to commit, we shall turn our attention to other quarters, with the view of disclosing the private history of the Clanmer family; as also of unravelling the plot so ingeniously contrived to ensnare the poor girl into their hands, which, as they calculated, would effectu