CONTENTS

[INTRODUCTION]
[PART I.]
[TO DOCTOR]
[CHAPTER ONE. Some sage Observations that naturally introduce our important History]
[CHAPTER TWO. A superficial View of our Hero’s Infancy]
[CHAPTER THREE. He is initiated in a Military Life, and has the good Fortune to acquire a generous Patron]
[CHAPTER FOUR. His Mother’s Prowess and Death; together with some Instances of his own Sagacity]
[CHAPTER FIVE. A brief Detail of his Education]
[CHAPTER SIX. He meditates Schemes of Importance]
[CHAPTER SEVEN. Engages in Partnership with a female Associate, in order to put his Talents in Action]
[CHAPTER EIGHT. Their first Attempt; with a Digression which some Readers may think impertinent]
[CHAPTER NINE. The Confederates change their Battery, and achieve a remarkable Adventure]
[CHAPTER TEN. They proceed to levy Contributions with great Success, until our Hero sets out with the young Count for Vienna, where he enters into League with another Adventurer]
[CHAPTER ELEVEN. Fathom makes various Efforts in the World of Gallantry]
[CHAPTER TWELVE. He effects a Lodgment in the House of a rich Jeweller]
[CHAPTER THIRTEEN. He is exposed to a most perilous Incident in the Course of his Intrigue with the Daughter]
[CHAPTER FOURTEEN. He is reduced to a dreadful Dilemma, in consequence of an Assignation with the Wife]
[CHAPTER FIFTEEN. But at length succeeds in his Attempt upon both]
[CHAPTER SIXTEEN. His Success begets a blind Security, by which he is once again well-nigh entrapped in his Dulcinea’s Apartment]
[CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Step-dame’s Suspicions being awakened, she lays a Snare for our Adventurer, from which he is delivered by the Interposition of his Good Genius]
[CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Our Hero departs from Vienna, and quits the Domain of Venus for the rough Field of Mars]
[CHAPTER NINETEEN. He puts himself under the Guidance of his Associate, and stumbles upon the French Camp, where he finishes his Military Career]
[CHAPTER TWENTY. He prepares a Stratagem, but finds himself countermined—Proceeds on his Journey, and is overtaken by a terrible Tempest]
[CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. He falls upon Scylla, seeking to avoid Charybdis.]
[CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. He arrives at Paris, and is pleased with his Reception]
[CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. Acquits himself with Address in a Nocturnal Riot]
[CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. He overlooks the Advances of his Friends, and smarts severely for his Neglect]
[CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. He bears his Fate like a Philosopher; and contracts acquaintance with a very remarkable Personage]
[CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. The History of the Noble Castilian]
[CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN. A flagrant Instance of Fathom’s Virtue, in the Manner of his Retreat to England]
[CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT. Some Account of his Fellow-Travellers]
[CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE. Another providential Deliverance from the Effects of the Smuggler’s ingenious Conjecture]
[CHAPTER THIRTY. The singular Manner of Fathom’s Attack and Triumph over the Virtue of the fair Elenor]
[CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE. He by accident encounters his old Friend, with whom he holds a Conference, and renews a Treaty]
[CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO. He appears in the great World with universal Applause and Admiration]
[CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE. He attracts the Envy and Ill Offices of the minor Knights of his own Order, over whom he obtains a complete Victory]
[CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR. He attracts the Envy and Ill Offices of the minor Knights of his own Order, over whom he obtains a complete Victory]
[CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE. He repairs to Bristol Spring, where he reigns paramount during the whole Season]
[CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX. He repairs to Bristol Spring, where he reigns paramount during the whole Season]
[CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN. He repairs to Bristol Spring, where he reigns paramount during the whole Season]
[CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT. The Biter is Bit]
[PART II.]
[CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE. Our Adventurer is made acquainted with a new Scene of Life]
[CHAPTER FORTY. He contemplates Majesty and its Satellites in Eclipse]
[CHAPTER FORTY-ONE. One Quarrel is compromised, and another decided by unusual Arms]
[CHAPTER FORTY-TWO. An unexpected Rencontre, and a happy Revolution in the Affairs of our Adventurer]
[CHAPTER FORTY-THREE. Fathom justifies the Proverb, “What’s bred in the Bone will never come out of the Flesh”]
[CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR. Fathom justifies the Proverb, “What’s bred in the Bone will never come out of the Flesh”]
[CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE. Renaldo’s Distress deepens, and Fathom’s Plot thickens]
[CHAPTER FORTY-SIX. Our Adventurer becomes absolute in his Power over the Passions of his Friend, and effects one half of his Aim]
[CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN. The Art of Borrowing further explained, and an Account of a Strange Phenomenon]
[CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT. Count Fathom unmasks his Battery; is repulsed; and varies his Operations without effect]
[CHAPTER FORTY-NINE. Monimia’s Honour is protected by the Interposition of Heaven]
[CHAPTER FIFTY. Fathom shifts the Scene, and appears in a new Character]
[CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE. Triumphs over a Medical Rival]
[CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO. Repairs to the Metropolis, and enrols himself among the Sons of Paean]
[CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE. Acquires Employment in consequence of a lucky Miscarriage]
[CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR. His Eclipse, and gradual Declination]
[CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE. After divers unsuccessful Efforts, he has recourse to the Matrimonial Noose]
[CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX. In which his Fortune is effectually strangled]
[CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN. Fathom being safely housed, the Reader is entertained with a Retrospect]
[CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT. Renaldo abridges the Proceedings at Law, and approves himself the Son of his Father]
[CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE. He is the Messenger of Happiness to his Sister, who removes the film which had long obstructed his Penetration, with regard to Count Fathom]
[CHAPTER SIXTY. He recompenses the Attachment of his Friend; and receives a Letter that reduces him to the Verge of Death and Distraction]
[CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE. Renaldo meets with a living Monument of Justice, and encounters a Personage of some Note in these Memoirs]
[CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO. His Return to England, and Midnight Pilgrimage to Monimia’s Tomb]
[CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE. He renews the Rites of Sorrow, and is entranced]
[CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR. The Mystery unfolded—Another Recognition, which, it is to be hoped, the Reader could not foresee]
[CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE. A retrospective Link, necessary for the Concatenation of these Memoirs]
[CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX. The History draws near a Period]
[CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN. The Longest and the Last]