The National Register.
London, England, 1821-05-06 00:00:00

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A novel machine, invented by a gentleman of
Christ College, Cambridge, was tried last week at
Newmarket. In shape it is nearly that of an isoceles
triangle, and moves with the great end forward, on
four wheels. It has a boom 32 feet long, and a very
high mast. It will arry twelve persons at the rate of
30 miles an hour. The axle of the hinder wheels
is fixed a rudder. It can go on a wind and tack as
a vessel at sea, and is capable of being so correctly
guided, that the pilot at pleasure can run the wheels
over a stone.
A Lisbon packet has just arrived, with advices to
the 23d ult. The despatches from the new Govern-
ment of Bahia, addressed to the Regency and
Cortes, and containing the whole of the details of
the revolution there, had been received and real in
the Cortes. Accounts had also reached Lisbon of the
declaration of Pernambuco to adhere to the Porto.
guese Cortes and Constitution, on exactly the same
plan which had been adopted at Bahia.
A Beurdeaux paper mentions a report, that the
vessel in which Gen. Pepe had sailed from Naples
had been captured by the Algerine squadron.
The Select Committee on the existing regulations
relative to the making and sale of bread, report to
the House of Commons their opinion, that fitr one
your at least Parliament should impose no restriction
as to the denomination of loaves, or their weight.
They do not recommend any alteration of the law,
so far as it relates to the adulteration of bread,
otherways than by increasing the penalties. They
desire also, rather whimsically, that bakers shall
keep legal weights and scales in their shops, to weigh
bread when required, though they are at liberty to •
make and sell it of any weight.
The Constilutionnel contains a paragraph .under
the head of Krajowa, in Wallachia, dated the itath
of March, which states, that in a sanguinary battle
fought at Kudschuck, a town in Bulgaria, a great
many Greeks perished ; but it does not say to which
party the victory belonged. It is asserted positively
that not only has the Turkish fortress of Galcz
fallen into the hands of the Christians, but that they
have taken upwards of thirty Turkish vessels on the
Danube, and have, according to their barbarous
custom, slaughtered the greatest part of their crews_
'this latter intelligence is the repetition of an old
report.
Intelligence received by a commercial house in •
the City states, that a desperate and sanguinary con-
flict
has taken place between the Greeks and Turks
inhabiting the city of Petrasso, in the Morea, and
that the city has for the greater past fallen a prey
to the flames. We learn from the same authority,
that the spirit of national independence prevails
universally throughout all Greece, leading the •
Greeks unhappily, in every instance where the
opportunity offers, to stain their righteous cause
with the blood of their Turkish oppressors. The
Turks, in self-defence endeavour to retaliate, and
thus the whole of the provinces present one dreadful
scene of almost mutual carnage. We further learn
that the town of Smyrna has been the scene of
similar outrages between the Greeks and the Turks,
and that a considerable part of it has shared the fate .
ut Pat Sasso.
On Friday evening the anniversary festival of the
General Benevolent Institution, for the relief of
distressed artists of the United Kingdom, was held
at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street.— •
The institution is also intended for the relief of their
widows and orphans. About five o'clock the com-
pany consisting of nearly 200 persons, sat down to
dinner, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in
the chair, supported on the right by the Lord
Mayor, and on the left by Sir T. Bell, Mr. Blake.
M. P. Mr. Ord, M. P. and numerous persons of
distinction. Several speeches were made in support
of the institution, and a handsome subscription was
made by the company, who remained to a late hour.

In consequenee of Mr. Humes exhibition of abuse
in the ordnance department, an order has been
reeeived at the ordnance office, Dublin, from the
Master General and Board in this country, to sus-
pend all gratuities for length of service till further
notice ; and similar orders have been forwarded, it
is said, to the other departments in Ireland.
His Majesty held a Levee at Carlton Palace on .
Wednesday last. The presentations were very nu-
merous, and among them was the Marquis of Lon-
donderry, on coming to his present title. And on
Thursday his Majesty held a Drawing-room, which
was numerously and fashionably attended.
By an Act of Parliament, of the date of the 24th •
of March last, it is enacted, that it shall be lawful
for any court-martial, before which any non-com-
missioned officer or soldier shall be tried or convicted

of desertion, to direct, if it shall think tit, in addition
to any other punishment the court may award for

such desertion, that the deserter be marked on the
left side, two inches below the arm-pit, with the
letter D, such letter nut to be less than half an inch
long, and to marked upon the skin with some ink, or
gunpowder, or other preparation, so as to be visible
and conspicuous, and not liable tube obliterated.