Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-01-23
Communicated
The Great LiOMess.

"My profession exposed me to the approaches
of the licentious" Thus writes Lola Monies
~ cannot help it if bad men approach me, if bad
men scheme to become acquainted with me, il
bad men talk to me, and if bad men seek to make
me despise myself" Alas to occupy such po-
sition is bad enough for any woman; but, to one
who has the intelligence and ability to discern and
feel the degradation, it must be poignant in the
extreme.
But is this Lola Monies real EXISTENCE
human being-a poor, friendless, beautiful, way
ward woman? We have heard of her by every
ocean steamer for some years past, and she has
been no unimportant parsonage in the estimation
Of European Journalists. Everything relating t.
her, or even to the companion Of her walks, he,
big brown dog, has been thought worthy notice
in some English or French newspaper. She
therefore, have an existence. She cannot be al
together an imaginary creation. But is not much
that is said of her purely imaginative-her for
tunes, her prosecutions, her triumphs, and her in
trigues?
Lola has travelled away across the ocean to
visit our shores, and in the same ship that bore
Kossuth to us-two personages who had seen
strange vicissitudes in life, and yet who expe
rienced but little sympathy for each other when
thus brought together. But this is not surprising
when we reflect that they were here to be COM
petitors for popular favor We did not, however,
think of them in this light The statesman and
the danseuse, we should have thought, could have
no jealousies But in this we erred. The dan
sense was a politician Also and, according to her
own narrative, had enacted no unimportant part
in the diplomacy of Europe. Her enemies have
said she was the mistress of a king while she
maintains that she was his prime minister! This
part of her recital is interesting. She says:
Gin my professional career as dansease, having
been in Russia, and being on my way to Vienna,
stopped at Munich. Soon after, received
from an aid of the good old King Louis, an invi-
tation to royal audience on the next day. After
hesitating some time, yielded to the solicitation
of my friends, accepted the invitation, and had
an interview with the king at MONDAY. The
king treated me with kindness In a fdn,iliar
conversation nth him about French politics. i care
my opinions pretty freely, and especially in relation
to some French editors whom / was acquainted
with HdUing Arrays been, as 1 am yet, IN The
habit cf making fill notes Of public erents, men,
and moUements, | was enabled to be accurate The
king manifested great surprise at some of the in
formation gave him, and seemed SO deeply inter
ested as to ask me to stay in Munich as his guest
for few days. l at first declined, and finally
observed: win it not give cause for scandal
against your Majesty? The king replied No;
have no fear Of that consented to stay
few days, and renewed my conversations with
the king several times on visits to him at his in
stance These visits were unceremonious.
talked to the king as / always do to every one
truthfully, frankly, and without conccalment.
told him Of errors and abuse, IN his governmsat-I
told him of tie perfdy of his ministers. Honest and
unsuspecting, he did not believe it; but proved
it to him. He expressed his gratitude to me.
HIS Queen tras mn friend. exposed to him espe-
caly the art, duplicity, and villany of his Prime
Minister, Baron D'Abe Jesuit, who had worned
himself into his confidence. What had ] to gain
by oil this but the establishment of right and
the protection Of an honest man from rogues ?"
This is surely the most remarkable danseusc who
has ever visited our boards !--onc who can hold
familiar conversations with king about French
politics, who habitually makes full notes of pub
lie events, and who, soon after taking up her
abode in kingdom, can tell the king of "crrors
and abuses in his government
But what had the real Ministers to say to all
this? We shall see.
81 entertained liberal views, and was the adj
vocate Of liberal measures then, as / am now :
but | am no socialist, nor political revolutonist
without cause. The Prime Minister D'Abel, was
determined to drive me away; and he plotted
against me, raised all kinds of scandal about me ;
sent 10 France, England, the East Indies, and
Spain, to get false testimony against me- lie
represented to the people that ! Influenced the
king to do all kinds of wickedness, and he attrib-
uted his own oppressive acts to, the king and my
self. In oil these villanous schemes he failed,
till he called in the aid of the Austrian Prime