he monarchy in a bloody war of succession. The Marquis not only presented to Louis XIV the will in which the Bewitched one carried the crown to the Duke of Anjou, but openly declared himself a

ing Philip V as their legitimate sovereign. He, after the termination of the civil war

e began to raise his loans and impose taxes on private fortunes, religious houses, and capitular bodies: but

pier and Rogers, who took possession of Guayaquil, and squeezed out of that municipality a pretty fat contribution. In trying to restrain these marauders, the Viceroy spent a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in fitting out various ships, which sailed from Callao under the command of Admiral Don Pa

in the province of Paruro was also am

tine chapter-room between the two Fathers, Zavala the Biscayan, and Paz the Sevillian. The Royal Audiencia was compelled to imprison the whole chapter, th

s; but as these ladies are almost always shy with old men, a very poor inspiration

ipt, The Flower of the Academies of Lima, in which were guarded the acts of the sessions and the verses of the bards. We have made the most searching investigations for the hiding place of this ver

n quite a youth; the Jesuit José Buendia, a Lime?o of great talent, and prodigious science; Don Luis Oviedo y Herrera, also a Lime?o, and son

its glory, and the Viceroy, the Marquis de Castil-dos-Rius, gave a representation at the palace of the tragedy of Perseus, written in unhap

s given with harmonious music, splendid dresses, and beautiful decorations; and that in it the Viceroy not onl

re is a good deal of the

contrabandistas. The Royal Audiencia and the Tribunal of Commerce supported the accusation, and the Monarch resolved upon at once dismissing the Governor of Peru from his office; but the order was revoked

pride of Se?or de Olim de Sentmanat was deeply wounded; so much so that it carried

h abundance of good and bad verses, the Little Parna