The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-23 00:00:00

COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTES.

[raote AN *musicAm PAPER.]
The public lise much by counterfeit notes, and
there is no way of securing them against such losses
so Iting as copper-pldte prints are used. What one
artist has done, auother of equal skill may imitate,
or the original artist may for fraudulent purposes
copy. I offer them a method that I have invented,
by which plates can be produced that can neither be
imitated by the artist who produced them, nor by
any other. The method is by using glass plates.
In common notes, there is, besides the words and
characters that go to compose the note, some emble-
matical representations, such as a coat of arms, a
building, a landscape, &c. all evidently-wrought by
hand. Now in the glass plate notes, let there be the
usual words, &c. but instead of the emblematical
parts, let there he a variegated representation which
shall be the work of chance. Let the etching be per-
formed by the chemical action of a mordant. The
graver then by which imitations can be so dexterous-1
ly executed will be rendered in this case quite useless.
A glass plate will give fifteen or twenty thousand im-
pressions good proof, while the copper-plate will
be worn out with four thousand. Copper can be en-
graved in a hundred different ways, while glass can
be only engraved in two days—with• fluortck acid
and with a wheel. The variegated marbling produced
on glass by a chemical agent can never be imitated
by any thing else—even the same person cannot pro-•
•duce two similar plates. Can the imitator, baffled
•n glass, resort to copper and apply the graver?—
Can he (suppose him to imitate the print exactly)
make a complete counterfaction ? Rio—the•glass dif-
fering i:i its nature from the copper, and the manner
of operating upon them being different, those differ-
ence.; must produce very different elfects—but still,
could they be the same, the impressions would hive
a different gloss, and an appearance in every way
different, which v,ives the great Desideratum—a me-
thod of producin; prints, that cannot be imitated.
1 therefore declare to all the Banking Companies in
the United States, that if they will adopt my method,
the public will be no more defrauded with counterfeit
notes, and their notes shall, on account of that .se-
curity, obtain .a currency and a credit which they
cannot otherwise acquire.

J. J. BOUDIER,
Artist 211 d MallefAClllrer

At the late Assizes of Omagh, one of the filar•
quilt of ABERCORN'd tenantry was indicted for using
an unlicensed still, and for having to his possession
vessels containing pot ale. The witness called to
prove the fact was a poor woman in the neighbour-
hood of the traverser. On her coming on the table,
she appeared agitated, and seemed evidently an unwil-
ling witness. The Judge, the Boa. Baron M'CLE•
LAND, told her not to be under any apprehension, and
desired her to answer the questions put by Counsel.
Witness replied, " Alas, my Lord, I an; nothing ba?
a poor unsignified vessel." The Judge who had only
heard the latter part of the answer, said—" Well, my
good woman, go on —way there any pot ale in it Y"--
" Pot ale is it, my Lord," replied the poor woman,
44 sure your Lordship wouldn't be funning me." The
Court was convulsed with laughter for' several mi-
nutes.