WITNESS--I am assistant clerk in the Council Chamber. I know Mr. Brodie, the prisoner at the bar. I have seen him write, and I am a little acquainted with his handwriting. [Here the two letters were shown to the witness.] The writing of these letters is very like Mr. Brodie’s handwriting. I think they have been wrote by him. [Here the unsigned scrolls were shown to the witness.] I think these are of Mr. Brodie’s handwriting too, though worse written. [State of affairs shown to the witness.] I think this also is written by Mr. Brodie. [Sidenote: John Macleish] 8. JOHN MACLEISH, clerk to Hugh Buchan, City Chamberlain of Edinburgh, called in and sworn. WITNESS--I know Mr. Brodie, the prisoner at the bar, and have had some opportunity of knowing his handwriting. I have got receipts from him in the Chamberlain’s office, and have received cards from him. I have likewise seen him write in his own shop. [Here the witness was shown the two letters.] I think these letters are of his handwriting. [Shown the scrolls.] I never saw Mr. Brodie write in so crowded a way, or interline so much, but, notwithstanding, I think that these are of his handwriting. [State of affairs shown the witness.] I think that this also is of Mr. Brodie’s handwriting. Cross-examined by the DEAN OF FACULTY--How do you come to know Mr. Brodie’s writing so exactly? WITNESS--From many accounts and receipts, of his writing, which I have in my custody belonging to the office. [Sidenote: John Duncan] 9. JOHN DUNCAN, door-keeper to the Excise Office, Edinburgh, called in and sworn. WITNESS--I have been in that office for thirty-seven years. The doors of the Excise Office, when it was kept in the Canongate, were usually locked by me about eight o’clock at night, and I carried the key immediately thereafter to the housekeeper. A watch was set to guard it about ten o’clock, and the night watchman went away about five in the morning. I remember to have locked the door on Wednesday, the 5th of March last, about a quarter after eight o’clock in the evening, and I gave the key to one of Mr. Dundas, the housekeeper’s, maid-servants. The cashier’s room lay within the outer door, which I had locked, as before mentioned, and it had a double door. Cross-examined by Mr. CLERK, for George Smith--Pray, sir, was the Excise Office kept in one or in two houses? WITNESS--The Excise Office was kept in a large house; but there was likewise a small house fronting and adjoining the great one, in which Mr. Broughton’s office and the Register of Seizures were kept. There was no communication from the one to the other without going out to the open air, and the whole were in one court, inclosed by a parapet wall and iron rail. [Sidenote: William Mackay] 10. WILLIAM MACKAY, porter in the Canongate of Edinburgh, called in and sworn.