attain some faint Hope of arriving in Time within View of her
Happiness?----What a delightful Reformation, says he, should we see in
all Families, where the Vanity of their Maids took no Turn toward
Ambition to please, but by such innocent Pleasures as _Pamelia's_."

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 fr