gister_, abandoning his customary attitude
of an impartial historian, dealt out a sharp rap on the knuckles to
the Royal Troubadour:

"The discreditable conduct of the doting old King of Bavaria, in his
open _liaison_ with a wandering actress who had assumed the name of
Lola Montez (but who was in reality the eloped wife of an Englishman,
and whom he had created a Bavarian Countess by the title of Graefin de
Landsfeld), had thoroughly alienated the hearts of his subjects."

As the result of a solemn conclave at the Rathaus, an ultimatum was
delivered by the Cabinet; and Ludwig was informed, without any beating
about the bush, that unless he wanted to plunge the country into
revolution, Lola Montez must leave the kingdom. Ludwig yielded; and
forgetful of, or else deliberately ignoring, the fact that he had once
written a passionate threnody, in which he declared:

"And though thou be forsaken by all the world,
Yet, never wilt thou be abandoned by me!"

he could find it in his heart to issue a decree expelling her from his
realms.

To this end, on March 17, he signed two separate Orders in Council.

1

"We, Ludwig, by the Grace of God, King of Bavaria, etc.,
think it necessary to give notice that the Countess of
Landsfeld has ceased to possess the rights of
naturalisation."

2

"Since the Countess of Landsfeld does not give up her design
of disturbing the peace of the capital and country, all the
judicial authorities of the kingdom are hereby ordered to
arrest the said Countess wherever she may be discovered.
They are to carry her to the nearest fortress, where she is
to be kept in custody."

Events moved rapidly. A few days later Lola was arrested by Prince
Wallerstein (whom she herself had put into power when his stock had
fallen) and deported, as an "undesirable alien," to Switzerland.

Woman-like, she had the last word.

"I am leaving Bavaria," she said, "but, before very long, your King
will also leave."

Everybody had something to say about the business. Most people had a
lot to say. The wires hummed; and the foreign correspondents in Munich
filled columns with long accounts of the recent disturbances in Munich
and their origin. No two accounts were similar.

"The people insisted," says Edward Cayley, in his _European
Revolutions of_ 1848, "on the dismissal of the King's mistress. She
was sent away, but, trusting to the King's