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.
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CHAP. I. Contains the manner in which a gentleman found children: hisbenevolence towards them, and what kind of affection he bore to them asthey grew up. With the departure of one of them to the army.
CHAP. II. Relates the offers made by Dorilaus to Louisa, and the manner of herreceiving them.
CHAP. III. Dorilaus continues his importunities, with some unexpected consequencesthat attended them.
CHAP. IV. Louisa becomes acquainted with a lady of quality, part of whoseadventures are also related, and goes to travel with her.
CHAP. V. Horatio's reception by the officers of the army; his behaviour in thebattle; his being taken prisoner by the French; his treatment amongthem, and many other particulars.
CHAP. VI. Describes the masquerade at the dutchess of Main's; the characters andintrigues of several persons of quality who were there; the oddbehaviour of a lady in regard to Horatio, and Charlotta'ssentiments upon it.
CHAP. VII. An explanation of the foregoing adventure, with a continuation of theintrigues of some French ladies, and the policy of mademoiselle Coigneyin regard of her brother.
CHAP. VIII. The parting of Horatio and mademoiselle Charlotta, and what happenedafter she left St. Germains.
CHAP. IX. A second separation between Horatio and Charlotta, with some otheroccurrences.
CHAP. X. The reasons that induced Horatio to leave France; with the chevalierSt. George's behaviour on knowing his resolution. He receives anunexpected favour from the baron de Palfoy.
CHAP. XI. Horatio arrives at Rheines, finds means to see mademoiselle Charlottaand afterwards pursues his journey to Poland.
CHAP. XII. Continuation of the adventures of Louisa: her quitting Vienna withMelanthe, and going to Venice, with some accidents that therebefel them.
CHAP. XIII. Louisa finds herself very much embarrassed by Melanthe's imprudentbehaviour. Monsieur du Plessis declares an honourable passion for her:her sentiments and way of acting on that occasion.
CHAP. XIV. The base designs of the count de Bellfleur occasion a melancholy changein Louisa's way of life; the generous behaviour of monsieur du Plessison that occasion.
CHAP. XV. Louisa is in danger of being ravished by the count de Bellfleur; isprovidentially rescued by monsieur du Plessis, with several otherparticulars.
CHAP. XVI. The Innkeepers scruples oblige Louisa to write to Melanthe: herbehavior on the discovery of the count's falshood. Louisa changes herresolution and goes to Bolognia.
CHAP. XVII. Horatio arrives at Warsaw, sees the coronation of Stanislaus and hisqueen: his reception from the king of Sweden: his promotion: followsthat prince in all his conquests thro' Poland, Lithuania and Saxony. Thestory of count Patkul and madame de Eusilden.
CHAP. XVIII. King Stanislaus quits Alranstadt to appease the troubles in Poland:Charles XII. gives laws to the empire: a courier arrives from Paris:Horatio receives letters which give him great surprize.
CHAP. XIX. The king of Sweden leaves Saxony, marches into Lithuania, meets with aninstance of Russian brutality, drives the czar out of Grodno, andpursues him to the Borysthenes. Horatio, with others, is taken prisonerby the Russians, and carried to Petersburg, where they suffer theextremest miseries.
CHAP. XX. The treachery of a Russian lady to her friend: her passion for Horatio:the method he took to avoid making any return, and some otherentertaining occurrences.
CHAP. XXI. The prisoners expectations raised: a terrible disappointment: some ofthe chief carried to prince Menzikoff's palace: their usage there.Horatio set at liberty, and the occasion.
CHAP. XXII. What befel Louisa in the monastery: the stratagem she put in practiceto get out of it: her travels thro' Italy, and arrival in Paris.
CHAP. XXIII. Shews by what means Louisa came to the knowledge of her parents, withother occurrences.
CHAP. XXIV. The history of Dorilaus and Matilda, with other circumstances veryimportant to Louisa.
CHAP. XXV. Monsieur du Plessis arrives at Paris: his reception from Dorilaus andLouisa: the marriage of these lovers agreed upon.
CHAP. XXVI. The Catastrophe of the whole.
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