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 Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. (Signed)

Thus, it appeared that the Admiralty were to choose three persons from among the Council of the Royal Society, who were to have a hundred a year each during the pleasure of the Admiralty. Such an open attack on the independence of the Council could not escape the remarks of some of the members, and a kind of mild remonstrance was made, in which the real ground of complaint was omitted.

This was answered by the following letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty:

Admiralty Office, Dec. 30, 1828. , Having submitted to my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your Letter of the 18th instant, subjoining an extract from the Minutes of the proceedings of the