ne he will never leave me. Of that he is quite
determined. The game is not up. I shall, till death, stick
to the King; but God knows what will happen next.

I forgot to tell you that my enemies have announced in the
German papers that the students are my _lovers_! They could
not credit them with the loyal devotion they have ever had
for the King and myself.

MARIE DE LANDSFELD.

Writing in his diary on March 14, 1848, Frederick Cavendish, a budding
diplomatist, whom Palmerston had appointed as attache at Vienna,
remarks:

"There has been the devil of a disturbance in Munich; and
the King's mistress, Lola Montez, has been forced to fly for
her life. She has been the curse of Bavaria, yet the King is
still infatuated with her."

Scarcely diplomatic language. Still, not far from the truth.

A rigorous press censorship was exercised. The Munich papers had to
print what they were told, and nothing else. As a result, an inspired
article appeared in the _Allegemeine Zeitung_, of Augsburg, declaring
that the Ultramontanes were responsible for the _emeute_. "Herr von
Abel," in the opinion of a colleague, Heinrich von Treitsche, "took
advantage of the opportunity to espouse a sudden championship of
morals, and made _les convenances_ an excuse for resigning what had
long been to him a dangerous office."

Doellinger himself always declared that he became an Ultramontane
against his will, and that he only joined the Ministry at the earnest
request of von Abel. This was probably true enough, for he was much
happier among his books than among the politicians. With his nose
decidedly out of joint, he relieved his feelings in a lengthy epistle
to his friend, Madame Rio. Years afterwards this letter came into the
hands of Dom Gougaud, O.S.B., who published it in the _Irish
Ecclesiastical Record_. Among the more important passages were the
following:

Since you left M[unich] the impudence of L[ola] M[ontez] and
the infatuation of her admirers have been constantly
increasing. Our Members of Parliament, which have been
convocated to an extraordinary session on account of a
railway loan, did not dare, or did not deem it expedient, to
interfere. The only thing that was done, but without
producing any effect in high quarters, was that the Chamber
of Deputies unanimously voted a protestation against the
deposition of the professors. T