Transcribed from the 18 July 1828 edition of The Newry Commercial Telegraph newspaper, by permission of The British Library: A Military Movement.--A certain half-pay Captain, well known in the sporting world, has lately undertaken, for a wager, to play on the great Highland bagpipe and travel on foot, within a limited period, through the principle [sic] towns, and cities in Ireland. The conditions have been agreed to, and the preliminaries signed, that, instead of a cap and feathers, his head is to be hid under a broad blue Kilmarnock, with a ribbon attached behind. The stock is to be replaced by a common cotton neckcloth; his fine Holland shirt with one made of striped cotton, and for regimentals he is to wear a sober suit of Hodden-grey. His accoutrements are only to consist of a dirk, with the necessary appendages of knife, fork, and spoon; and he is permitted to wear a pair of green spectacles in order that he may minutely reconnoitre the enemy, and at the same time escape detection; but he is neither to have a pioneer to clear the road, purveyor to forage, nor any officer belonging to the commissariat department to supply him with ammunition, necessaries, or rations; but to forage solely for himself. He may beg, but is by no means allowed to borrow or steal. The sum staked on this important campaign is, we understand, £5,000, besides several sums which are pending on the result. He took the rout [sic] last week for the sister isle, in one of the steam-boats, from the Broomielaw.--Glasgow Free Press. ======================== Transcriber's note: This individual was probably Captain Robert Barclay Allardice. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2807657.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barclay_Allardice and also, pp 236ff of the October, 1812 edition of "The Sporting Magazine", and other similar resources available online through Google Books.