_The same [_del._ 5th] {incomparable} Writer has favour’d us with an Objection, [_del._ 5th] {that is more material than any we have mention’d;} which cannot be better stated nor answer’d, than in his own [_del._ 8th] {beautiful} Words; viz._ An Objection is come into my Thoughts, which I should be glad the Author would think proper to obviate in the Front of the Second Edition. There are Mothers, or Grandmothers, in all Families of affluent Fortune, who, tho’ they may have none of Lady _Davers_’s _Insolence_, will be apt to feel one of her _Fears_,---that the Example of a Gentleman so amiable as Mr. B--- may be follow’d, by the _Jackies, their Sons_, with too blind and unreflecting a Readiness. Nor does the Answer of that Gentleman to his Sister’s Reproach come quite up to the Point they will rest on. For, tho’ indeed it is true, all the World wou’d acquit the best Gentleman in it, if he married _such_ a Waiting-maid as _Pamela_, yet, there is an ill-discerning Partiality, in Passion, that will overthrow all the Force of that Argument: because _every belov’d Maid will be PAMELA_, in a Judgment obscur’d by her Influence. And, since the Ground of this Fear will _seem_ solid, I don’t know how to be easy, till it is shewn (nor ought it to be left to the Author’s Modesty) that they who consider his Design in that Light will be found but short-sighted Observers. Request it of him then to suffer it to be told them, that not a limited, but general, Excitement to Virtue was the first and great End to his Story: And that this Excitement must have been deficient, and very imperfectly offer’d, if he had not look’d quite _as low as he cou’d_ for his Example: because if there had been any Degree or Condition, more remote from the Prospect than that which he had chosen to work on, that Degree might have seem’d out of Reach of the Hope, which it was his generous Purpose to encourage.---And, so, he was under an evident _Necessity_ to find such a Jewel in a _Cottage_: and expos’d, too, as she was, to the severest Distresses of Fortune, with Parents unable to support their own Lives, but from the daily hard Product of _Labour_. Nor wou’d it have been sufficient to have plac’d her thus _low_ and _distressful_, if he had not also suppos’d her a _Servant_: and that too in some elegant Family; for if she had always remain’d a Fellow-cottager with her Father, it must have carried an Air of Romantick Improbability to account for her polite Education.