The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-08
The Countess OF LandsfeId-LoIa Montez.

The European correspondent Of the New
York Express speaks rs follows of this ce!e.
bnty:
"The mos' curious event OF the week has
been the debut Of the Countess de Lqndsfeld-
Lola Montez dhe final letter Z. and not an 81 Ms
a danseuse, before an audience ofabout two hun
d ed invited guests, at the Sale Msbille. After
a long qulescenoe, this extraordinary woman is
about TO set forth again on new knighter-
rsntry Of adventure. She dances at Rouen,
Havre, perhaps at Paris, and thence starts for the
New World, there TO exercise her profession.
The above mentioned performance was prelmi.
nary 10 this career. The persons present CON-
prised most Of the critics and literati Of Paris,
with n sprinkling Of ladies' and strangers. The
dances she has prscticed are six IN number,
though on this occasion she only executed three
"a Bavarian, Hungarian, and Spanish dance.
Her dresses were in exquisite taste, and her ap-
pearance was that Of a spirited, handsome wo-
man Of 10 or 90, though she has entered her
2sth year, having been born in Seville in 1923.
Her face Is very like the portraits Of her, with
vide forehead, betokening powerful intellect,
combined with chin, mouth, and teeth, exceed.
ingly juvenile.
IL ! mistake not, this contradictory physiog.
nomy is an index 10 her character, for il bespeakS
at once that commanding intelligence, and that
hcklenoss OF design, which have marked and
governed her career; which have made her ut
one time the caffler Of Mettefnich and the ruler
Of the king and court Of Munich, and at another
the rowing balletdancer over half the continent.
Her eye Of gray, tinged with blue, is The leading
feature OF her countenance, and when once seen
Is never forgotten Ii is very large. filing pro-
jigious socket, and seems, ir its flashes, 10 be-
come all pupil No one who has observed this
attentively, can be at loss to believe, what in
deed is well known, that her power over the
King Of Bavaria and his ministers, sustained for
two yenrs and half. was wholly triumph Of
intellect and not the sorcery Of a courtezan.
The outline Of the story Of Lola Montez is
well known, but her real character is not gener-
ally understood. She is the centre, here, Of a
large circle Of admiring friends, consisting Of
the beauI espris Of Paris. She is a cherished
member Of the Artists Club, composed Of four
hundred men Of genius in every line of art.
Lola Montez speaks nine languages fuently.
When the Nepaulese Prince was here, she was
the only person In Paris with whom he could
converse She is famous for her daring and
dashing eloquenoe in conversation. Viewed as
a man, with the latitude taken TO themselves by
the lords Of creation, she would have claimed
anu WOn geUerhl hutHlIhtiO9 NJ woman, sne ",
Of course, banished from the greater part of the
sisterhood, and finds what consolation she can in
he society open TO her. She and her friends
deny and denounce as false the gross libertinism
i'm uted TO her. How much Of the irregularities
of her career may be explained and extenuated
by the adversities Of life betrayed at the ontset
by corrupt mother, and base, brutal husbind.
il is not for me to say. At oil events, while J
make no apology for her, u Is proper to state
that those who know her, declare her 10 be no.
bic, generous, and unself h, even TO degree Of
romance.