This is first of all making an Objection, then denying it to be one; for what does he defend in the last Paragraph, but the very Thing that is allowed to be the general bad Tendency of the Book, _viz_: That every Maid Servant from what low Stock soever she sprung, if she is pretty modest, _&c._ has an undoubted Right to attempt to entice her Master to Marriage:----Nay in what he allows is proposed to teach the _Gay World_ and the _Fortunate_, he more particularly acknowledges it to be this.----"By Comparison with that infinite Remoteness of her Condition from the Reward which her Virtue procured her, one great Proof is derived, (_which_, says he expressly; _is Part of the Moral of Pamela_) that Advantages from _Birth_, and Distinction of _Fortune_ have no Power at all, when consider'd against those of _Behaviour_ and Temper of Mind: Because where the _last_ are not added, all the _first_ will be boasted in Vain. Whereas she who possesses the last, finds _no Want_ of the first in her Influence."----If this is proper Instructions for young Ladies I am deceived, for by the same Rule that it may hold good with _Servant Maids_ in regard to their obtaining their _Young Masters_ (which he would call as above----_the Reward their Virtue procured them._). It must equally make the Ladies conclude that if they can find any thing mere deserving in their _Footmen_ than the _Young Gentlemen_, who by a suitable Rank and Fortune are designed to be their Suitors, they are under no Obligation to chuse the latter, but _are meritoriously_ throwing down all Distinction of _Family_ and taking up with the former. Thus much, Sir, I have thought proper to observe in regard to your Assistants; now give me Leave to say, that I think your _Pamela_ so far from being a proper Entertainment for the Youth of both Sexes, especially the young Ladies, that it is indisputable no young Girl however innocent she may be; at the Age when Nature softens and moulds the tender yielding Heart to Love can possibly read several Passages in it, which I shall point out, without conceiving Ideas she otherwise might never have dream'd of; and instead of recommending it to my Daughters I would keep it from their Sight, as too pernicious for them to converse with. But before I enter into any particular Parts, I will take a short Summary of the whole Tale as you would willingly have it represented, with my Objections thereto, and wherein I think you fall short of what you have promised in your Title Page, and is directly the Reverse of the Encomiums bestow'd in your Preface.