The History of Vanillo Gonzalez, Surnamed the Merry Batchelor; In Two Volumes Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIFTH; 9'he-important Event which happened a Jhort Time afterwards at Court; the Changes which followed; and the Separation of Vanillo and Ramirez. THE approaching dismission with which-; every person now conceived the Duke of Lerma was threatened became, for fifteen days, the sole topic of conversation at Madrid; after which the rumour insensibly decreased; and as the Minister assisted 'at the councils and held audiences as usual, it was at length conceived to be without foundation. About two months afterwards, however, Philip The Third, whose health had long been declining, fell sick and died 5 and the Prince his son, on ascending the throne, promoted Don Gaspard Te Gusman Count Count of Olivarez, ' his favorite, to the high station of Prime Minister of Spain. The people, always charmed by noVelfyJ rejoiced at, the change; but it was an event' extremely ' mortifying to the adherents to the Sandov Ae party, as well as to those who, like Don Ramirez, espoused the irf-' terests of Don Roderigo De Oaeder'bn A.' As for myself, I beheld these important re-' volutions with perfect indifference';, for as. I'.neither, gained her lost by the event, it. was of no consequence to me whether the-' Duke of Lerma or the, Count-Olivarezgovernecl the-Monarchy; Thcon.ly mortification I fek was, that my friend Prado, . being no longer.able to rely upon the power of Calderona for promotion, had lest the best string to his bow. The new Minister, from the-manner, in which he was spoken of, raised an expectation that he intended to establish his authority on the complete ruin of his predecessor. All persons, who were in any degree obnoxious to him, were displaced, and the vacancies supplied with men avowedly attached to his interests. Calderona...