As _The Times_ at that period was not read in Munich to any great extent, Lola, wanting a larger public, sent a letter to the _Allegemeine Zeitung_. This, she thought, would secure her a measure of sympathy not accorded her elsewhere: "I object to being made a target for countless malicious attacks--public and private, written and printed--some whispered in secret, and others uttered to the world. I therefore now stigmatise as a wicked liar and perverter of the truth any individual who shall, without proving it, disseminate any report to my detriment." The letter was duly published. The attacks, however, did not end. On the contrary, they redoubled in virulence. All sorts of fresh charges were brought against her. Many of them were quite unfounded, and deliberately ignored much that might have been put to her credit. Lola had not done nearly as much harm as some of Ludwig's lights o' love. Her predecessors, however, had made themselves subservient to the Jesuits and clericals. When her friends sent protests to the editor, refuge was taken in the stereotyped reply: "pressure on our space does not permit us to continue this correspondence." By those who wished her ill, any stick was good enough with which to beat Lola Montez. Thus, when a dignitary died--no matter what the medical diagnosis--it was announced in the gutter press that he died of "grief, caused by the national shame." The alleged last words of a certain politician were declared to be: "I die because I cannot continue living under the orders of a strumpet who rules our dear Bavaria as if she were a princess." Ludwig took it calmly. "The real trouble with this poor fellow," he said, "is that he never experienced the revivifying effects of the love of a beautiful woman." A popular prescription. The local doctors, however, were coy about recommending it to their patients. That the Munich disturbances had an aftermath is clear from a news item that appeared in the _Cologne Gazette_ of July, 3, 1847. Lola, wanting a change of air and scene, had gone on a tour, travelling _incognita_ and without any escort. Still, as she was to discover, it was impossible for her to move without being recognised: According to letters from Bavaria, it is obvious that the animosities excited against Lola Montez earlier in the year are far from having subsided. On passing through Nuremberg, she was received with coldness, but decency. At Bamberg, however, it was very different. At the railway station she was hissed and hooted, and, stones being thrown at her carriage, she presented her pistols and threatened to punish her assailants. The upper classes were thoroughly ashamed of such excesses; and the chief magistrate has been instructed to appoint a deputation of the leading citizens to apologise to Mademoiselle.