2. Of the class composed of persons above the rank of Menial servants perhaps 3,000 3. Of the class who may have been employed as Menial Servants, or seduced in very early life, it is conjectured in all parts of the town, including Wapping, and the streets adjoining the River, there may not be less, who live wholly by Prostitution, than 20,000 ------ 25,000 4. Of those in different ranks in Society, who live partly by Prostitution, including the multitudes of low females, who cohabit with labourers and others without matrimony, there may be in all, in the Metropolis, about 25,000 ------ Total 50,000 When a general survey is taken of the Metropolis--The great numbers among the higher and middle classes of life, who live unmarried--The multitudes of young men yearly arriving at the age of puberty--The strangers who resort to the Metropolis--The seamen and nautical labourers employed in the Trade of the River Thames, who amount at least to 40,000--And the profligate state of Society in vulgar life, the intelligent mind will soon be reconciled to the statement, which at first view would seem to excite doubts, and require investigation. But whether the numbers of these truly unfortunate women are a few thousands less or more is of no consequence in the present discussion, since it is beyond all doubt, that the evil is of a magnitude that is excessive, and imperiously calls for a remedy.--Not certainly a remedy against the possibility of Female Prostitution, for it has already been stated, that it is a misfortune that must be endured in large societies.--All that can be attempted is, to divest it of the faculty of extending its noxious influence beyond certain bounds, and restrain those excesses and indecencies which have already been shewn to be so extremely noxious to society, and unavoidably productive of depravity and crimes. The Author is well aware, that he treads on tender ground, when in suggesting any measure, however salutary it may be in lessening the Calendars of Delinquency, _it_ shall have the appearance of giving a Public sanction to Female Prostitution. Under the influence of strong prejudices long rooted in the human mind, it may be in vain to plead _plus apud me ratio valebit quàm vulgi Opinio_.