The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

LOLA MONTES.

Lola Montes has addressed the following epistle
to the elitor of the Montreal Witness :—" Sir,—A
gentleman of this city has just put into my hands a
catty of your paper, in which you make au unpro-
Yuk“.l attack on me, and recommend respectable
'people not to hear my lectures. Now, sir, in the
notice which lam about to take of you, do not sup-
pose that I am moved by any idea that what you
say will influence people of real respectability and
intelligence. The public press must have already
itifortried you that it is precisely from that class that
my lectures receive the largest patronage. But a
feeling of justice to:myself impels me to ask you
wliat motive any fair minded man can have for
assaulting me in the pursuit of an honourable and
blameless calling ? Is it not, sir, from the depravity
of your own bad nature that the attack thus sprung ?
Am I not earning my bread as respectably as you
aro yours I—and I rejoice in knowing that in the
midst of all the malice and falsehood which have
been heaped upon me, I have never yet to my
knowledge been thus assailed by any man who was
himielf of faultless life. My assailants have been
from the ranks of men like yourself, who have no
vierible means of getting a character but by sheieting
at the tops of their voices against vice—men who,
having worn themselves out in the service of sin,
set up to be the special enemies of sinners. My
manner of life is squarely and prominently before
the pvs'elic, and scandal itself does not dare to say
that •It is not morally blameless. Of course, I can-
not here enter into any defence of my past career ;
but there are hundreds of honourable men on this
aide of the Atlantic who know that until circum•
11„t.*ncf-s threw me into the stormy arena of politics,
I'4tre sins far less of evil report attached to my name
than to that of almost any other lady of my profes-
to rl
the
vilification
The c-tuses which afterwards led
are
und, with devout urie?; to be partly understood,
waitinganf:retohne trbeeeptsoticeeo ofeGorudi,lalt
am patiently
nay life It as not keen without errors I do not deny,
but tirit I ever deserved the abuse which suc es
you avould heap upon me I do
deny,
and history
"rip_ iala day vindicate my right to say this of m 3 -
said. Sir, if 1-ou have a wit's a.-, shter, or a mother,
trust that they are of a blarntless life, but cannot
be more so than the one which I am • -
living; and
may the day he far off when some wicked atq
by bad_
hearted man shall do
them as you woula`ao by
s ;
me. Sir, you profess to be
a Chri tiara
w but howl
will. you aear before the Being
his • w
said,
a'iudge not,pp j that ye b) not edgier! ilo
-'you meet Him who has said Lot him who is with-
out sin cast the first stone /' Practice upon the
precept of the Master,' and you will never more
throw stones at me or at any
other human being.
If You can find fault with my present life you are
vre':conie to do so ; if 3 ou can show that my lectures
are undeserving of the patronage which they have
almost without exception received from the moat
respectable and the most intelligent portion of the
community, you are welcome to do that also ; but
you are not welcome to do that what uo gentleman
Dever will do, assail a lady who it honestly endea-
voriring to make the best use she can of such op-
•lol*,rrunities and abilities as God has given her. Sir,
Va. pity and I forgive you ; and it is wi.h the hope
-that I may be the means of making a better man-
nered lied. a be.ter principled man of you that I ad-
dress this note. LOLA MONTES.
Montreal, Aug. 27, 1857."