{You can hardly imagine how it charms me to hear of a Second Edition already! but the News of still new upon new ones, will be found no Subject of Wonder. As ’tis sure, that no Family is without Sisters, or Brothers, or Daughters, or Sons, who can _read_; or wants Fathers, or Mothers, or Friends, who can _think_; so equally certain it is, that the Train to a Parcel of Powder does not run on with more natural Tendency, till it sets the whole Heap in a Blaze, than that _Pamela_, inchanting from Family to Family, will overspread all the Hearts of the Kingdom.} As to the Objection of those warm Friends to _Honesty_, who are for having _Pamela_ dismiss Mrs. _Jewkes_; there is not One, among All these benevolent Complainers, who wou’d not discern himself to have been, _laudably_, in the _wrong_, were he only to be ask’d this plain Question---Whether a Step, both ill-judg’d, and undutiful, had not been the Reverse of a PAMELA’s Character?---Two or three times over, Mr. _B----_ had inform’d her, that Mrs. _Jewkes_ and Himself having been equally involv’d in _One Guilt_, she must forgive, or condemn, _Both together_. After this, it grew manifest _Duty_ not to treat her with Marks of Resentment.---And, as here was a visible Necessity to appear not desirous of turning her away, so, in point of mere _Moral_ Regard to the bad Woman Herself, it was nobler, to retain her, with a Prospect of correcting, in Time, her loose Habit of thinking, than, by casting her off, to the licentious Results of her Temper, abandon her to Temptations and Danger, which a Virtue like PAMELA’s cou’d not wish her expos’d to. [_del._ 5th] {_The Manner in which this admirable Gentleman gives his Opinion of the Piece, and runs thro’ the principal Characters, is so masterly, that the Readers of _Pamela_ will be charm’d by it, tho’ they should suppose, that his inimitable Benevolence has over-valu’d the Piece itself._} Inspir’d, without doubt, by some Skill, more than human, and comprehending in an humble, and seemingly artless, Narration, a Force that can tear up the Heart-strings, this Author has prepar’d an enamouring _Philtre_ for the Mind, which will excite such a _Passion_ for Virtue, as scarce to leave it in the Power of the _Will_ to neglect her. _Longinus_, I remember, distinguishing by what Marks we may know the _Sublime_, says, it is chiefly from an Effect that will follow the Reading it: a delightfully-adhering Idea, that clings fast to the Memory; and from which it is difficult for a Man to disengage his Attention.---If _this_ is a Proof of the _Sublime_, there was never _Sublimity_ so lastingly felt, as in PAMELA! Not the Charmer’s own prattling Idea stuck so close to the Heart of her Master, as the Incidents of her Story to the Thoughts of a Reader.---The Author transports, and transforms, with a Power more extensive than _Horace_ requires, in his POET!---