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Title: The Fortunate Foundlings
Being the Genuine History of Colonel M----Rs, And His Sister,
Madam Du P----Y, The Issue Of The Hon. Ch----Es M----Rs,
Son Of The Late Duke Of R---- L----D. Containing Many Wonderful
Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with
the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition,
In The Most Polite Courts Of Europe. The Whole Calculated for
the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes.

Author: Eliza Fowler Haywood

Release Date: January 23, 2004 [EBook #10804]

Language: English

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THE

_FORTUNATE FOUNDLINGS_:

BEING THE

GENUINE HISTORY

OF

_Colonel_ M----RS, _and his Sister,_
_Madam_ DU P----Y, _the Issue of
the Hon_. CH----ES M----RS, _Son of the
late Duke of_ R---- L----D.

CONTAINING

Many wonderful ACCIDENTS that befel them in their TRAVELS, and
interspersed with the CHARACTERS and ADVENTURES of SEVERAL PERSONS of
_Condition_, in the most polite Courts of _Europe_.

_The Whole calculated for the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth
of both Sexes_.

_LONDON_:

M,DCC,XLIV.

THE

PREFACE.

_The many Fictions which have been lately imposed upon the World, under
the specious Titles of_ Secret Histories, Memoirs, &c. &c. _have given
but too much room to question the Veracity of every Thing that has the
least Tendency that way: We therefore think it highly necessary to
assure the Reader, that he will find nothing in the following Sheets,
but what has been collected from_ Original Letters, Private Memorandums,
_and the_ Accounts _we have been favoured with from the Mouths of
Persons too deeply concerned in many of the_ chief Transactions _not to
be perfectly acquainted with the Truth, and of too much Honour and
Integrity to put any false