APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 
plates in his possession. Jaques 
did net mention to him that the 
lates were for Mr. Blackburn: 
and the witness was paid for the 
plates, and the working of them, 
by Jaques. Witness did not know 
that Jaques was clerk to Mr. 
Blackburn. On his cross-exami- 
nation, he said that he never saw 
Mr. Blackburn upon the subject ; 
and that his name was never men- 
tioned to him by Jaques on any 
occasion. Jaquesrepresented him- 
self as a writer for attornies. He 
never gave his own name, nor did 
the witness ask him, as he paid 
him for the work he had dene.— 
Witness did not know his name 
until December last. 
Mr. Samuel Topham is an en- 
graver at Leeds; has been in that 
business about six years ; knows 
Mr. Blackburn, and was employed 
by him in the way of his business, 
in October, 1812, in making for 
himanumber of pieces, resembling 
wafer seals; they were made of 
brass, and consisted partly of nu- 
merals and partly of words; the 
whole number he made was 14. 
Mr. Topham was then shewn a 
number of dies, produced by Mr. 
Atkinson, which were only 13 in 
number. After looking at them 
for some time, he said they were 
the: same he had made for Mr. 
Blackburn; they were made un- 
der his direction, and witness em- 
ployed a person to fix the handles 
tothem. Witness does not recollect 
to whom they were delivered, but 
they were paid for by Mr. B; the 
sum he received for them was 
1). 12s. Witness said he could not 
undertake to swear positively that 
the dies were the same he had 
made for Mr. Blackburn ; but he 
believed they were. In answer to 
a question from the Judge, he said 
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he did not keep impressions from 
the dies he had made for him. 
Witness was now desired to exa- 
mine thestamp affixed to thedeed, 
and to state whether the impres- 
sion ** II Pounds? was, in his 
opinion, an impression from the 
dies made by him. After com- 
paring the impression with the 
dies, he said he could not state po- 
sitively whether it was or not; he 
could not speak to it, and being 
further pressed, whether he could 
not form an opinion upon it, he 
replied that he could not form any 
idea upon the subject. 
Mr. Abraham Smith, the stam- 
per from London, being asked the 
same question that was proposed 
to Mr. Topham, stated, after 
comparing the die with the im- 
pression on the stamp, that he 
had no doubt but that it had been 
made from the die; they corres- 
ponded so exactly, that the one 
must be an impression from the 
other; he also stated that the im- 
pression * I] Pounds,” must have 
been made by two dies, and not 
by a single instrument. 
William Kappen, Esq. examin- 
ed the dies with great attention, 
and after fixing them with great 
care upon the impression of “ II 
Pounds’ in the stamp, gave it as 
his opinion, that it was made by 
the dies he held in his hand. Mr. 
Butterworth having examined the 
engraving, This Indenture, at the 
head of the deed, said he had no 
doubt but it was an impression 
from the plate he engraved for 
Jaques, and which he had before 
produced in Court. 
William Kappen, esq. then pro- 
ceeded to describe the different ar- 
ticles, in a box produced by Mr. 
Atkinson, and which contained a 
great vaviety of articles found on 
