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before they were engraved, to the following gentle- men, members of the Royal Academy of Painting, in London. He would esteem himself culpable if he were to dismiss this Advertisement without publicly acknowledging the honourable and most liberal testimonial they bore to their excellence. BENJAMIN WEST, Esq.,

PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY, Sir William Beechey. Richard Cosway, Esq. John Flaxman, Esq. Thomas Lawrence, Esq. Joseph Nollekens, Esq. William Owen, Esq. Thomas Stothard, Esq. Martin Alrcher Shee, Esq. Henry Thomson, Esq. Henry Tresham, Esq.

R. H. CROMEK.

London, July 1808.

The moral series here submitted to the Public, from its object and method of execution, has a double claim on general attention. In an age of equal refinement and corruption of manners, when systems of education and seduction go hand in hand ; when religion itself compounds with fashion; when in the pursuit of present enjoyment, all consideration of futurity vani^es, and the real object of life is lost — in such an age.