"This benefit," he says, "which I fully expected would prove to be adecided loss, annoyed me sadly. I was sauntering along Regent Streetwhen I met Stretton, the popular singer, whose own benefit was justcoming off. He said that he had secured every attraction worthy of thepublic, and that there was no hope for me, 'unless,' he added, 'youcould secure Lola Montez.'
"The grounds alleged to be responsible for this deplorable business,"declared an editorial, "were utterly frivolous. As a result, thepublic prosecutor has instructed an examining-magistrate to enquireinto all the circumstances, and an autopsy will be held. It ispossible that other measures will be adopted."
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"Be this notified to all the authorities and to Our subjectsin general, with a view to not only recognising the saidMaria as Countess of Landsfeld, but also[132] to supporting herin that dignity; and it is Our will that whoever shall actcontrary to these provisions shall be summoned by OurAttorney-General and there and then be condemned to makepublic and private atonement.
But Lola Montez, or no Lola Montez, there was in the eyes of hisexasperated subjects more than enough to make them thoroughlydissatisfied with the Wittelsbach regime, as carried out by Ludwig.The Cabinet had become very nearly inarticulate; public funds had beensquandered on all sorts of grandiose and unnecessary schemes; and theclerical element had long been allowed to ride roughshod over theconstitution. Altogether, the "Ministry of Dawn," brought intoexistence with such a flourish of trumpets after the dismissal of vonAbel and his colleagues, had not proved the anticipated success.Instead of getting better, things had got worse; and, although it hadnot actually been suggested, the idea of substituting the monarchy bya republic was being discussed in many quarters.
Lola's first halt in Switzerland (a country she described as "thatlittle Republic which, like a majestic eagle, lies in the midst of thevultures and cormorants of Europe") was at Geneva. An error ofjudgment, for the austere citizens of Calvin's town, setting asomewhat lofty standard among visitors, were impervious to herblandishments. "They were," she complained, "as chilly as their ownicicles." At Berne, however, to which she went next, she had betterluck. This was because she met there an impressionable young Chargd'affaires attached to the[153] British Legation, whom she found "somewhatyounger than Ludwig, but more than twice as silly." An entente wassoon established. "Sometimes riding, and sometimes driving she wouldappear in public, accompanied by her youthful adorer."
Bavaria was the key position in the sphere of European politics justthen. Ludwig, however, had dallied with the situation too long.Nothing that he could do now would save him. Unrest was in the air.All over Europe the tide of democracy was rising, and fast threateningto engulf the entrenched positions of the autocrats. Metternich,reading the portents, was planning to leave a mob-ridden Vienna forthe more tranquil atmosphere of Brighton; Louis Philippe,[160] setting himan example, had already fled from Paris; and Prince William ofPrussia, shaving off his moustache (and travelling on a falsepassport), was hurrying to England while the going was still good.With these examples to guide them, the Bavarians, tired of softpromises and smooth words, were clamouring for a fresh hand at thehelm. Realising that the choice lay between this and a republic,Ludwig bowed to the inevitable; and, with crocodile tears andhypocritical protestations of good faith, surrendered his sceptre. Togive the decision full effect, he issued a Proclamation:
"What is Lola Montez?" enquire the public. A good dancer,says the manager of a theatre. She is also notorious. Thepublic will crowd the theatre to see her and to judgewhether she is not also a good actress; and if they gettheir money's worth, they are satisfied. They do not pay tojudge of the former history of Lola Montez.... A fewsqueamish people cannot prevent Lola Montez from creating asensation here, or from crowding from pit to dome any housewhere she may appear; and, as they will be the first toendorse her success, they would be more consistent were theyto let her alone until she secures it.
Having a partiality for the society of diggers, with whom she hadalways got on well, Lola next betook herself to Ballarat. It was anunpropitious moment for a theatrical venture in that part of theworld. The atmosphere was somewhat unsettled. The broad arrows andticket-of-leave contingent who made up a large section of thecommunity were clamouring for a republic; and there was a considerableamount of rioting. A rebel flag had been run up by the mob; and the[222]military had to be called out to suppress the activities of the"Ballarat Reform League." Still, Lola was not the woman to run awayfrom danger. As she had told a Sydney audience, she "rather liked agood row."
"Of the literary lights during my residence in Paris,Alexandre Dumas was the first, as he would be in any cityanywhere. He was not only the boon companion of princes, buthe was the prince of boon companions. He is now aboutfifty-five years old, a tall, fine-looking man, withintellect stamped on his brow. Of all the men I ever met heis the most brilliant in conversation. He is always soughtfor at convivial suppers, and is always sure to attendthem."
What a marvellous structure it is, with its hierarchy ranging throughlong centuries almost from apostolic days to our own; living side byside with forms of civilisation and uncivilisation, the most diverseand the most contradictory, through all the fifteen hundred years andmore of its existence; asserting an effective control over opinionsand institutions; with its pontificate (as is claimed) dating from thefisherman of Galilee, and still reigning there in the city that heardSaint Peter preach, and whom it saw martyred; impiously pretending tosit in his chair and to bear his keys; shaken, exiled, broken againand again by schism, by Lutheran revolts and French revolutions; yetalways righting itself and reasserting a vitality that neither forcenor opinion has yet been able to extinguish. Once with its foot on theneck of kings, and having the fate of empires in its hands, and evenyet superintending the grandest ecclesiastical mechanism that man eversaw; ordering fast days and feast days, and regulating with omnipotentfiat the very diet of millions of people; having countless bands ofreligious soldiery trained, organized, and officered as such asoldiery never was before nor since; and backed by an infallibilitythat defies reason, an inquisition to bend or break the will, and aconfessional to unlock all hearts and master the profoundest secretsof all consciences. Such has been the mighty Church of Rome, and thereit is still, cast down, to be sure, from what it once was, but not yetdestroyed; perplexed by the variousness and freedom of an intellectualcivilisation, which it hates and vainly tries to crush; laboriouslytrying to adapt itself to the Europe of the nineteenth century, as itonce did to the Europe of the twelfth; lengthening its cords andstrengthening its stakes, enlarging the place of its tent, andstretching forth the curtains of its habitations, even to thisRepublic of the New World. 0852c4b9a8
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