Print, dn the fame Letters, and the fame fized Paper with the two Volumes already publifhed; and if they were writ with as much Spirit, and the fame elegant Eafe as thofe which have ap peared, and been fo justly admired, he would be a Purchaser.

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zad AM Your very humble Servant.

Sole know your own, I cannot doubt his "Probity, whom you speak a Man of Worth, "A You may let the Bookfeller you mention perufe the Papers; and if he proves a Purchaser, *I with him good Luck in the Sale, may he reap "La Profit and the Readers Benefit.

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P. B. I leave you to agree about the Price, fos as I can't doubt your doing me that Favour, "if the Papers are approved by your Acquaintance.

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thank you for the Loan of your fecond Pacbiques which I read with great Pleafure. I "fhewed it the Bookfeller with whom I agreed

for the firft Parcel. He is of Opinion they will make another Volume; but is willing to fee “how the first is received by the Publick before he purchases the fecond: For although the Town has done Juftice to the Virtuous Pamela

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* in recaiving the firft Volumes with great Ins * dulgence, yet there have appeared so many senfual Cenfurers of that Work; fo many have "made it their Bufinefs, either through a malevo Jent Nature, or to appear more penetrating than the reft of Mankind, or from an Apprehenfion that Virtue may charm, by the lovely Figure the makes in thofe Letters. So many, I fay, have rifen up to depreciate them, that he doubts the Volume. which he has already put to the Prefs meeting with the fame favourable Reception. Indeed, I can't fay but he has "Ground for his Apprehenfions; for Vice has "more Advocates than Virtue, and from what"ever Cause it may proceed, we find the Gene"rality of Mankind more ready to liften to Detraction and fpread Calumny, than to join in "and propagate the Praife due to Virtue. I have heard feveral criticise in publick Companies

the two First Volumes; but, who were the "Men? Young Fellows and Old Letchers, of "moft profligate Lives, who always made Reli"gion the Subject of their Ridicule. I never yet "heard a Perfon of good Senfe and found Prin66 ciples mention thofe excellent, Letters but "with the Character they merit and have ac"quired among People of Virtue and Judgment.

Two Pieces have appeared in Print to depre"ciate the Efteem they have juftly gained, both «however visibly calculated with the primary "View of being paid for the Dirt they fling.

The firft of thefe, I mean, that which is en"titled An Apology, &c. has fome low Humour "adapted to the Standard of a petit Maitre's Ca“pacity; but, I believe, the Author, whoever Mahe is, has not got much Reputation by this

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The Second has for Title Pamela cenfur'd; and is a Piece of Curlifm; the greater Part a Tranfcipt from Pamela's Letters. Indeed, it is below Notice; however, I fhall fay thus "much of the Author, that he is unfair in his

Quotations, and gives us fuch an Idea of his « own vicious Inclination, that it would "not (I fear) wrong him to think the Shrieks "of a Woman in Labour would excite his Paffions, and the Agonies of a dying Woman en; flame his Blood, and ftimulate him to commit a Rape. He difcovers fo much of the Satyr, "I mean not in his Wit, that I think his Book deferves the Executioner's Hand to convey it to "the Flames.

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"I fhall pafs by his Contradictions with Re"gard to the Character he draws of the Editor, or as he will have it Author, who appears in his Party-colour'd Writing a very artful, filly Writer, a Man of fine Senfe, and excellent in. his Method of conducting the whole Piece, but at the fame time vain, ignorant, and in*« correct.

"This Author's firft Remark, Page 26, is too poor to cenfure. 'Tis down-right filly. His next, p. 28, is like the Roman Perfecution of "the Chriftians, who fewed them in Bears Skins ac and then baited them. How unfair he is, and

how much of the Goat he has in his Confti"tution are vifible. Pamela fays, "I just remember I got into the Room; for I know nothing further of the Matter till afterwards: I fell "into a Fit with my Fright and Terror, and there "I lay, till be, I fuppofe, looking through the Key-hale, ESPYED ME LYING ALL ALONG,

STRETCH'D OUT AT MY LENG then be called Mrs. Jervis to me, t Affiftance, bursting open the Door, ber Ifeeming to be coming to myfelf; a fay nothing of the Matter, if the Poor Mrs. Jervis thought it was wor "What is there immodeft in this what to excite any Paffions but the for a virtuous young Creature, and tion to a tyrannical lewd Man of "How do the Fright, the Terror, a henfions of a defenceless Virgin kin and when they have deprived her how can we fairly from the Wor mela's Letter gather, that he fell decent Pofture? Well, but the V "Imagination in this virtuous Cenfu the reft: He can't fuppofe that poffibly fall but as he has painted the Editor has been defective in co THE MOST ARTFUL AND AMOROUS IDEAS, if the Letters bound with Incidents which must raife in the unwary Youth that "EMOTIONS far diftant from the P

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of VIRTUE. If they are not r Images to enflame, the Cenfurer en "repair the Fault he, not the Editor to give an Idea of Pamela's hidde and would have you imagine fhe lies immodeft Pofture, fuch a one as N thought Things had gone farther, b be gathered from Pamela's Account "this virtuous Cenfurer endeavouring " in the Minds of Youth that read his "Modefty and Virtue, Images that m Mas not favs he, the 'Squire ve

withdraw? for the lay in fuch a pretty Pofture, that Mrs. Jervis thought it was worse. Why did Mrs. Jervis think this from the pretty Pofture? Nay, how could the think it from any

"Pofture? when the fame Account tells us the and "the 'Squire were obliged to burst open the Door, for Mrs. Jervis to get in to her Affiftance: Is it not more reasonable for Mrs. Jervis to conclude as fhe did, from the unruly lawless "Paffion with which the knew her Mafter, tor"mented, from the Obftinacy of his Temper,

and from the Hopes he might entertain, being "Mafter of a large Fortune, that he might, bora 60 up by that, ftem the Tide of Juftice, and per"petrate the greateft Villainy with Impunity? "We are told in the Letters that the fainted away, and fell on the Floor ftretch'd at her "Length, and as her Gown was caught in, and torn by the Door, the must fall too near

it, in whatever Pofture, to fhew any latent "Beauties, but what is there indecent in this Relation? Is there any particular Pofture defcribed? Oh, but the Cenfurer lays her in one which may enflame, you must imagine as "lusciously as he does; if the Letter has not difcover'd enough, the pious Cenfurer lends a "Hand, and endeavours to furfeit your Sight by lifting the Covering which was left by the Editor, and with the Hand of a boisterous Ravilher takes the Opportunity of Pamela's being in a Swoon, to- But I am writing to a "Lady, and fhall leave his grofs Ideas to fuch "as delight to regale their Senfuality on the most "luscious and enflaming Images.

"As to his Queftion, whether the 'Squire was "not modeft? I anfwer, the 'Squire fhews he "had fome Humanity, and was touch'd with

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