 We must , indeed , be more serious with this gentleman [ Etty ] than is our wont , for the " Society for the Suppression of Vice " are not to be excused for their prosecutions in cases of obscene publications , and the Lord Mayor himself deserves at once to be sent to the tread @-@ mill for imprisoning a little Italian boy for hawking about the streets a naked Cupid , if such lascivious scenes , such gross insults to morality and decency , are allowed to be exhibited at the Roy . <unk> with impunity . A Brothel on fire , which had driven all the <unk> Nymphs out from their beds into the court @-@ yard , would be a modest exhibition compared to this — for they would at least exhibit en chemise . Several ladies , we know , were deterred from going into this corner of the room to see Leslie 's , Webster 's , and other pictures of great merit there , to avoid the offence and disgrace Mr. E. has conferred on that quarter ... Really , really , if Mr. E. , with all his power of colour , turn his drawings of the human figure to no <unk> purpose — if the absence of all taste and decency is to mark his Academical studies , it is high time that he had a hint from an authority which neither he nor the Council of the Academy will dare to treat slightly . The Archbishop of Canterbury and some of our Bishops are fond of the arts — what say they to them in this shape ? 
