Mail robbery. Bristol mail robbed between Knightsbridge and Kensington

Whereas the Post Boy in carrying the Bristol Mail of Saturday last from London, was set upon and robbed by a Single Person on Foot, about Four o'Clock on Sunday morning, betwixt Knightsbridge and Kensington. The Postmaster-General thinks proper to make it publickly known, that whoever shall apprehend the Person who committed this Robbery, will, upon his Conviction be entitled to a Reward of Two hundred Pounds, besides the Reward by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen: Or if any one Accomplice in the said Robbery shall make a Discovery of the Person who committed the Fact, such Accomplice will be entitled to the said Reward of Two hundred Pounds, and also have the King's most Gracious Pardon.

The Person who committed this Robbery is described to be a lusty Man in a dark coloured Riding Coat: He carried away all the Bags of the Mail upon the Post Horse, which was taken up in Long-acre as a Stray sometime after the Robbery.