A Series of Letters, WHICH APPEARED IN THE CHELTENHAM CHRONICLE, LIEUT. MORRISON AND OTHERS; IN WHICH ITS PRINCIPLES ARE PROVED TO BE UNPHILOSOPHICAL, CONTRARY TO THE PRECEPTS AND DOCTRINES OF REVELATION: WITH Additional Remarks, NOTICES OF THE ROYAL NATIVITIES, AND AN INTRODUCTION, CONTAINING A SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY ALSO OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEATHER PROPHETS, AND ANECDOTES OF SEVERAL ASTROLOGERS. By T. H. MOODY, PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, AND AUTHOR OF "SCRUTATOR," &c. CHELTENHAM: PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM WIGHT, SOLD IN LONDON BY HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. PREFACE. Of all the forms in which Superstition haunts the mind, none, perhaps, has a more attractive and seducing influence than that of astrology. Adorned with the radiance of heaven, she is viewed by the eye of the visionary, as the celestial messenger of human destiny; and the imagined connexion of ethereal phenomena with mundane events, leads to the conclusion, that some mysterious emanation from the stars influences the career and habits of mortals, and regulates every thing that transpires on our globe. When these vain chimeras are received and cherished, and when it is believed that the laws of this connexion have for ages been known and studied by the |