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.
by Eliza Fowler Haywood
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 Colours upon it.
The Adventures are not so long passed as to be wholly forgotten by
many Living Witnesses, nor yet so recent as to give any Reason to
suspect us of Flattery in the Relation given of them, the Motive of
their Publication being only to encourage Virtue in both Sexes, by
showing the Amiableness of it in real Characters.
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