THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE: DEVOTED TO Literature, Art, and Religion. JAMES FLOY, EDITOR. VOLUME X. JANUARY TO JUNE, 1857. New-York: PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. 1857. N 1791 the poor young king, Philip plete his misfortunes, he had espoused, in the second a most and his own grandeur, already meditated the abdication of his tame royalty. Philip had not yet calmed the emotions that followed the closing of the unhappy "War of the Succession." He was fatigued with revolutions and low intrigues, and still full of grief and regret for his first queen, the gentle Maria Louisa of Savoy. To comVOL. X.-1 arrogant tyrant, in the person of Elizabeth of Parma. He now resolved to flee from so much agitation, which neither his melancholy disposition nor his feeble constitution fitted him to contend with. And so, like Alceste, whom he resembled in nothing but his gloominess, he set out to seek in. |