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 that he can inform mankind whether life be happy or unhappy? Suits at law, who shall overcome? If the party is to be rich, and how wealth may lawfully be obtained? He answers to all questions, relating to love, gallantry, and marriage, as what manner of person one shall be courted by, and be married unto? Whether at present bachelor, maid, husband, wife, widower, or widow? Whether the party be beloved or not? Children, their number and sex? also the diseases, crosses, accidents, or other fortunate and unfortunate adventures and events, he, she, or they shall meet with, or be incident unto, with the means of preventing and avoiding them; and can foretel most people's business, even before they deliver any questions; all which he performs with due regard to honour and the strictest secrecy.


 * He sells prolific drops for barrenness in women, the true arcanum by which the northern hive hath anciently poured forth its swarms over the rest of Europe, the use of them counteracting the inclemency of that climate, and invigorates cold and languid constitutions. Price of the bottle half a guinea, with compleat directions for use.

††† He hath a few remaining bottles of his grand cosmetic wash, for the invention of which her Serene Highness the Archduchess of Livonia presented him with a vest of fables; and honoured him with a seal ring from her own finger, and 500 Livonian Ducats. Price of this inestimable secret one guinea.

He is to be spoke with at his lodgings at Mr. Tucker's, a portrait painter, at the house with the Venetian window in Usher's street, the back of Usher's quay, from the hours of seven till nine, on the evenings of Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays only, the other parts of his time being devoted to astrology and the study of the occult sciences, when he will not be interrupted on any account whatsoever.

Yesterday morning the learned world was deprived of one of its most useful ornaments by the death of the celebrated Lapland philosopher and virtuoso, Ulan Smolenzco Czernznigorff, who is greatly lamented by persons of all ranks, sexes, and distinctions. His dissolution, which was long since predicted by himself, was occasioned by an atrophy contracted by intense study. He was attended by several eminent physicians, whom he discovered by his art to have mistaken the state of his case. Many divines remarkable for their learning and piety, waited also upon him, and exhorted him to make a full and ample confession of his misdeeds, as they were persuaded that he had certainly practised the black art, and dealt with the devil, and more especially, as he gave each of them a succinct account of all their most secret transactions; but he persisting to the last, that all his knowledge was obtained by means of the Gam or good genius, that inhabited his drum, they denounced an anathema against him, and refused him the rites of their function. He has given all the product of his gain, since his arrival in this kingdom, to charitable uses, and bequeathed many legacies, 