As You have pleased in Your _Third_ Edition of _Pamela_, or (what you call) _Virtue Rewarded_, to insert Extracts from several curious recommendatory Letters, to perswade us that nothing could every equal this Performance, I hope as I dissent from those Gentlemens Opinion, you will with Impartiality receive my Reasons for so doing; nor condemn me less for _honestly disapproving_, than you caress them for _fulsomely flattering_. The Pompous Promise of your Title Page, the Manner in which it is introduced, and your undertaking in a Series of familiar Letters, from a beautiful Young Virgin to her Parents to inculcate Virtue, the very Mention of such a Method of Instruction, has, I don't doubt induced Numbers, as it did me, to read your _Pamela_, and by contributing to the large Sale thereof, made the World (as is generally the Case) judge of the Worth of it. The _Porch_ erected with cunning Symmetry, and shining with agreeable Colours allures us in; _Nature_, _Truth_, _Virtue_ and _Religion_; Words that are sure to please not only the Innocent Youth, but the more Thinking and experienced Sage, are press'd into the Service of the first Page; and so artfully rank'd that they at once invite us to proceed and assure us that the Production can be nothing less than a Miracle: Nay so much are you convinc'd of it's _Worth_, so happy in the Consideration of your own Desert, that, tacitly condemning all former Writings of the like Kind, You assume to yourself the Merit of prescribing _Virtue_, and cultivating both that and _Religion_ (which by the way I never knew were distinct before) in the Minds of the YOUTH of BOTH SEXES, and that you have the Honour of now _First_ publishing these Things to the World: Was no Romance or Novel ever published with a Design to recommend moral Virtue?--Is _Pamela_ the First of that Kind! No surely; as to your Title, _La Paysanne parvenue_ now translated into _English_, a little _French_ Novel, is something more modest, and as much calculated for the Encouragement of Virtue. That is a plain Tale, it is recommended and received as such but _Pamela_ is first a _Series of Letters_ from a Girl to her Parents, which it is presumed are offered us as Originals, and then immediately we are told it is a _Narrative_ which has it's _Foundation_ in _Truth_, and _Nature_; now what can any Man that would reduce this to the Language of his own Opinion and Judgment call it, but, _a Romance form'd in Manner of a literary Correspondence founded on a Tale which the Author had heard, and modell'd into it's present Shape_. Allowing this, which is the modestest Construction I can put upon it, and that it was founded upon Truth, yet several Things may and have been added thereto: Art and Invention, have been used; and however _true_ the _Foundation_ may have been, yet a few _Removes_ and _Transitions_, may make it deviate into a _downright Falsehood_: In all Additions, and what may by some be called Embellishments to the Story,