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 The session of oyer and terminer lasts generally from one to three days, and the court is entertained each day with a dinner at the expence of the Lord High Admiral, that is to say, of the public.

The proceedings of the court are continued de die in diem, or, as the stile of the court is, from tide to tide.

3. The Registrar of the Admiralty has hitherto held his place by patent from the Lord High Admiral generally for life, though the admiral himself, and the Lords Commissioners of Admiralty hold their places only during pleasure; and what is still more remarkable, the office of Registrar has sometimes been granted, and is now vested in reversion. He had no salary; the amount of his emoluments, depending on the number of captures, droits, &c. condemned by the court; which, during the late war, were so enormous, that in 1810, an act was passed for regulating the offices of Registrars of Admiralty and prize courts, by which it is enacted, “that no office of registrar of the high court of admiralty, or of the high court of appeals for prizes, or high court of delegates in Great Britain, shall, after the expiration of the interest now vested in possession or reversion therein, be granted for a longer term than during pleasure, nor be executed by deputy; that an account be kept in the said offices respectively of all the fees, dues, perquisites, emoluments, and profits received by and on account of the said Registrars, out of which all the expences of their offices are to be paid; that one-third of the surplus shall belong to the Registrar and to his assistant, (if an assistant should be necessary,) and the remaining two-thirds to the consolidated fund of Great Britain, to be paid quarterly into the Exchequer, the account of such surplus to be presented to the court at least fourteen days before each quarter day, and verified on oath.”

4. The Marshal. This officer receives his appointment from the Lord High Admiral or Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and holds his situation by patent under the seal of the High Court of Admiralty, during pleasure. His duties are to arrest ships and persons, to imprison in the Marshalsea, to bear the mace before the judge, and to attend executions. His emoluments depend chiefly on the number of prizes brought into port for condemnation, and the number of ships embargoed, and may probably be reckoned in time of war, communibus annis, from L. 1500 to L. 2000 a year, out of which he has to pay about L. 400 a year to a deputy. In peace, the whole emoluments are probably not sufficient for the payment of the deputy’s salary.

5. The Advocate-General. This officer is appointed by warrant of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. His duties are, to appear for the Lord High Admiral in his Court of Admiralty, Court of Delegates, and other courts; to move and debate in all causes wherein the rights of the Admiral are concerned, for which he had anciently a salary of twenty marks a year, and an additional allowance granted to him in 1695, of L. 200 a year. At present he has L. 213, 6s. 8d. a year, voted on the ordinary estimate of the navy. Formerly, the Admiral’s Advocate was always retained as leading counsel, but since the droits were transferred to the crown, he has gradually been supplanted by the King’s Advocate, who is generally retained in all cases, the Admiralty Advocate acting only as junior counsel; and while the former makes sometimes from L. 15,000 to L. 20,000 a year, the latter rarely receives from his professional duties more than from L. 1500 to L. 2000 a year. This difference however, may probably be owing in a great degree to the personal character of the men who hold the two situations.

6. The Procurator. The Admiralty’s Proctor stands precisely in the same situation to the King’s Proctor, that his advocate does to that of the King, though there is not quite so great a difference in their emoluments. They act as the attornies or solicitors in all causes concerning the King’s and the Lord High Admiral’s affairs in the High Court of Admiralty and other courts. All prize causes are conducted by the King’s Proctor, which the captors are disposed to consider as a grievance, but which the gentlemen of Doctors Commons on the contrary maintain to be for their convenience and advantage. It is supposed, that in some years of the war, the King’s Proctor did not receive less than L. 20,000 a year.

7. The Counsel of the Admiralty is the law officer who is chiefly consulted on matters connected with the military duties of the Lord High Admiral; his salary is L. 100 a year besides his fees, which, in time of war, may be reckoned to amount from L. 1200 to L. 1800 a year.

8. The Solicitor to the Admiralty, is also an officer more immediately connected with the military functions of the Admiralty. He is stated sometimes assistant to the counsel; his salary is L. 400 in lien of all fees; and his disbursements for the naval departments in time of war, amount to L. 14,000 or L. 15,000 a year.

The Judge Advocate of the fleet is a sinecure appointment, with a salary of L. 182, 10s. a year, on the ordinary estimate of the navy; but the Deputy Judge Advocate resides at Portsmouth, and assists at all courts martial held at that port, for which he is allowed an annual salary of L. 146. See, in this Supplement.

ÆPINUS, eminent in the mathematics, and in natural philosophy, was born at Rostock in Lower Saxony, in 1724, and died at Dropt in Livonia in 1802. We regret that our means of information do not enable us to communicate any particulars in regard to his personal history; but we shall give some account of his contributions to science, and these, after all, form the most interesting memorials of a philosopher’s life.

The work by which he is best known, is entitled, Tentamen Theoriæ Electricitatis et Magnetismi, published at Petersburgh in 1759. It appeared under the sanction of the Imperial Academy, to which the theory had been in part communicated; and it is said on the title page to be ''Instar Supplementi Comment. Acad. Petropolitanæ''. The work indeed merited this distinction, as being the first systematic and successful attempt to apply mathematical reasoning to the subjects of electricity and magnetism. Already the theory of Franklin, with regard to the former, was very generally received, and was supposed to afford a satisfactory explanation of the phenomena. But though it seemed sufficient for this purpose in