In May next year, (1807,) Capt. Barclay walked seventy-eight miles in fourteen hours, over the hilly roads of Aberdeenshire. He left Ury at two o’clock morning, to attend a sale of cattle at a place four miles beyond the Boat of Forbes on the Don, a river in Aberdeenshire, where he remained five hours, but walked in the fields several miles, and returned home by nine at night.--In this year, his famous match, for two hundred guineas, with Abraham Wood, the celebrated Lancashire pedestrian, took place. It was settled in the month of July, that the parties were to go as great a distance as they could in twenty-four hours--and Capt. Barclay was to be allowed twenty miles at starting--to be decided at Newmarket on the following 12th of October--play or pay. On the day appointed, this match attracted the greatest concourse of people ever assembled at Newmarket, in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Carriages of every description were innumerable, from the barouche and four, to the dicky cart, and the horsemen and pedestrians exceeded all accurate calculation of numbers. The place chosen for the performance of this extraordinary match, was a single measured mile on the left-hand side of the turnpike-road leading from Newmarket to London, towards the ditch; which mile was roped in, and both competitors ran on the same ground. They started precisely at eight o’clock on Monday morning, but after going forty miles, Wood resigned the contest, which created considerable surprize among the amateurs.--The following is an accurate account of the race. Mr. Wood. Capt. Barclay. Hours. Miles. Hours. Miles. 1 8 1 6 2 7 2 6 3 7 3 6 4 6½ 4 6 5 6 5 6 6 5½ 6 6 -------- -------- 40 miles. 36 do.