Irish soldier

I am a soldier, and my name is Richard Dunbar. I was born in Ireland, and am now twenty years of age. I have been nine years in the service, and have been in Dunbar’s, and now in Morgan’s, regiment, which last I left, because I was Dunbar’s major, and I thought it better to be a major in Dunbar’s than a captain in Morgan’s. I have been in every major action which has been in the last war, except the battle of Dunbar, and I never yet ran away. I can therefore, very justly, claim the character of a good major’s soldier. I can also claim that of a good major, for, though I never was major of any other regiment, I have major’s pay in three. I can also claim