The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-06
The Countess of Lnndsfeld--LoIa Montez.

! The European correspondent of the New
York Cypress speaks as follows Of this ce!e
brity:
"Tbe most curious event Of the week has
been the debut Of the Countess de I.andsfeld-
Lola Montez, 1.-THE final letter Z, and not an 81 as
a danseuse, before an audience ofabout two hun
died invited guests at the Sale Mabille. After
a long quiescence, this extraordinary woman is
about to set forth again on new knight err
rantry of adventure. She dances at Rouen,
tavre, perhaps at Paris and thence starts for the
New World, there to exercise her profession.
The above mentioned performance was prelimi-
nary to this career. The persons present COM
prised most of the critics and literati of Paris,
with sprnkling of ladies and strangers The
dances she has practced are six in number,
though on this occasion she only executed three
IA Bavarian, Hungarian, and Spanish dance.
Her dresses were in exquisite taste, and her APP
pearance was that of spirited, handsome wo-
man of 10 or 90, though she has entered her
28th year, having been born in Seville in 1929.
Her face is very like the portraits Of her. with a
wide forehead, betokening powerful intellect,
combined with chin, mouth and teeth, exceed
ingly juvenile.
IL | mistake not, this contradictory physiog-
nomy is an index to her character for it bespeaks
at once that commanding intelligence, and that
hckencss of design, which have marked and
governed her career which have made her at
one time the caffer of Metternch and the ruler
of the King and court Of Munich, and at another
the rowing balet-dancer over half the continent
Her eye of gray tinged with blue, is the lending
feature of her countenance, and when once seen
is never forgotten. II is very large, filling pro-
dgious socket, and seems, in it's flashes, TO be-
come all pupil No one who has observed this
sttentively, can be at loss TO believe, what in
deed is we'll known, that her power over the
King Of Bavaria and his ministers, sustained for
two years and half, was wholly triumph Of
intellect, and not the soroery OF courtezan.
The outline of the story of Lola Mentez is
well known, but her real character is not gener-
ally understood. She ia the centre, here, of n
large circle of admiring friends, consisting of
tho beaur csprfs 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 1uently
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 eloquence in conversation Viewed as
a man, with the latitude taken to themselves by
the lords OF creation, she would have claimed
and won general admiration as a woman, she is,
Of course, banished from the greater part of the
sisterhood, and finds what consolation she can in
the society open to her She and her friends
deny and denounce M false the gross libertinism
inn uted to her. How much of the Irregularities
of her career may be explained and extenuatcd
by the adversties of life betrayed Mt the outset
by corrupt mother, and base brutal husband,
II is not for me to say. AT all events, while
make no apology for her, it is proper TO state
that those who know her, declare her TO be no.
BILE, generous, and unselfish, even to degree Of
romance. lH ff.f.y f