Adieu, Mr. Printer—you have received this letter from a sincere admirer of female modesty: Without it “beauty _ceases being lovely_, or wit being engaging.” Whoever possesses it cannot be enough esteemed and regarded—whoever is deficient in it cannot be sufficiently despised and slighted. Ye _English_ fair, _it ought_ to be your characteristic! _but while your fathers, husbands, and brothers are unprincipled, corrupted senators_—you think you have a right to deviate from _your point of honour_, since _they shew you the example in their’s_. To conclude—_true modesty is incompatible with the idea of employing_ A MAN MIDWIFE[2]. [2] Except when those _very rare instances_ occur, which do not happen once in two thousand labours. LETTER II. The favourable reception my last letter met with from the public, leads me to hope our married men will seriously reflect on the dangers which attend the employing Men-midwives to attend their wives, except in cases where there is the most urgent necessity for the interference of art. I flatter myself it will not be difficult to convince _sensible_, _modest_ women of two undeniable truths, which nothing but prejudice, or vice, can render them blind to the force of:—First, that Men-midwives are not so safe as women;—and secondly, that it is absolutely impossible to permit men to take the unbounded freedoms which Men-midwives _falsely pretend are necessary_, without throwing themselves entirely at their mercy, and, at all events, being polluted by their needless invasion.